Categories: OLD Media Moves

Huey: Murdoch

John Huey, the editor in chief at Time Inc.’s magazine operations who previously worked at The Wall Street Journal and helped launch its European edition, doesn’t believe that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch will hurt The Journal after he acquires it next month.

Atlanta Constitution reporter Bo Emerson wrote, “A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal who made his bones helping to found the European edition of the paper, Huey said the Journal and its parent, Dow Jones & Co., will not be adversely affected by the fact that they have been purchased by conservative Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch.

“‘The Wall Street Journal will still be the primary source of information for most business leaders. And I think the liberal press outcry is more about [itself] than about The Wall Street Journal,’ Huey added. ‘You have to remember it wasn’t a pack of liberals there [at the Journal] in the first place.'”

Read more here, primarily about Huey’s visit to Atlanta, his hometown.

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.

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