Roy Harris, a senior editor at CFO magazine, writes on its blog that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch won’t get any of the shares in Dow Jones & Co. that he owns from working as a journalist at The Wall Street Journal.
“Like the Bancrofts and most other WSJ readers, I have, well, concerns about the quality of Journal coverage were it in the hands of the press baron who runs Fox News and the New York Post. And the Bancrofts and I must balance those concerns against the hefty premium that $60 represents.
“Then there’s the possibility that a less objectionable pair of deep pockets can be found. Or is there? In 36 years of reporting on business, I don’t think I’ve ever seen more divergent opinions on that question.”
Read more here. Harris, once deputy chief of the Journal’s Los Angeles bureau, said that he considered owning Dow Jones shares a “donation to good journalism.”
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