Categories: OLD Media Moves

Imagining a conversation between Murdoch and WSJ editor

Paul Brean of The National Post in Canada imagines Saturday what a conversation between News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch and the top editor of The Wall Street Journal would be like after Murdoch closes on his deal to purchase the paper.

Brean wrote, “‘Actually Paul, Sudoku is a very cerebral game, but like I say, you’re the boss,’ I said.

‘None of my business –or so everyone keeps telling me — but readers love games. And contests. And pet stories. It’s a proven fact.

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“‘Paul, for god’s sake, give me some credit here. It’s not a Page Three girl. She will be fully clothed. But fine. If you don’t think the Investment Banking Intern of the Week is a good feature, then we’ll scrap it. Like I say, you’re the man,’ I said.

‘Paul said something about his duty to the public trust, or something like that. I wasn’t really listening. How about News of the World? Is that taken already?”

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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.