Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dow Jones panel says it sees no misconduct

The committee that oversees editorial independence at News Corp.’s Dow Jones & Co. unit said it has found “absolutely no sign of journalistic misconduct” among Dow Jones employees, reports Eric Engelman of Bloomberg News.

Engelman writes, “The committee responded to a letter yesterday from U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Jay Rockefeller, who asked the panel whether senior News Corp. executives in the U.S. knew about or were complicit in the phone hacking scandal now engulfing the company in the U.K.

“‘Our focus from the outset has been on insuring that the highest standards of journalistic ethics are being met at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires,’ the committee said in a statement e-mailed late yesterday by its chairman, Thomas Bray, the former editorial page editor of the Detroit News.

“‘In conversations with countless present and former Dow Jones employees we have found absolutely no sign of journalistic misconduct such as is at the heart of the scandal in London,’ the statement said.

“Boxer, a California Democrat, and Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat who chairs the Senate Commerce Committee, also requested information from the committee about the hiring of Les Hinton, who resigned as chief executive officer of Dow Jones on July 15.”

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

Recent Posts

Economist’s Bennet, WSJ’s Morrow receive awards

The Fund for American Studies presented James Bennet of The Economist with the Kenneth Y. Tomlinson Award…

4 hours ago

WSJ is testing AI-generated article summaries

The Wall Street Journal is experimenting with AI-generated article summaries that appear at the top…

5 hours ago

Cohen joining Bloomberg Tax

Zach Cohen is joining Bloomberg Tax to cover the fiscal cliff and tax issues on…

6 hours ago

Avila named interim editor for Automotive Dive

Larry Avila has been named interim editor for Automotive Dive, an Industry Dive publication. He…

6 hours ago

Reuters seeks a fact-checking editor

Reuters is seeking an experienced editor to take part in our fact-checking project and support the…

9 hours ago

Making financial news more accessible

CNBC Make It reporter Ashton Jackson writes about ways to make financial news more accessible to consumers.…

20 hours ago