Richard Perez-Pena of The New York Times writes Sunday that it will just be a matter of time after News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch acquires Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, before he starts to tinker with the paper.
“He’s saying, ‘I like this paper, I’ve paid a lot of money for it, I think The Journal and its brand are a valuable part of my global strategy,’ and he’s not going to mess that up,’ said Anne K. Gordon, a partner at Dubilier & Company, a private investment firm, and a former managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer. She said people who predict that Mr. Murdoch would intervene aggressively, in damaging ways, ‘do not give him enough credit.’
“Ken Doctor, a media analyst with Outsell, a business research firm, said that when it comes to changing The Journal, ‘I also think he’ll go slow, at least at first,’ because Mr. Murdoch ‘doesn’t want to jeopardize the brand he’s buying.’
“Even so, he said, ‘I find it just about impossible to imagine that if he really wants to make changes, any agreement will hold him back for very long.'”
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