OK, let’s assume that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch does acquire Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal. What are the betting odds behind some of the paper’s top business journalists leaving afterward?
Geoffrey Gray of New York magazine acts as our oddsmaker this Friday and posts the line on several WSJ higher-ups.
His prognostications:
WSJ Star: Bruce Orwall
Job: L.A. bureau chief. He’s rebuffed offers before, but he covers a key Murdoch business and edited the big story about his wife. Plus Brauchli just passed him over for a prestigious “Page One� gig.
Chance He’d Go: 1 to 2
Job: Assistant managing editor. Formerly of the right-wing “Opinion� pages, he worked for Murdoch’s Times of London but called him the “master practitioner of the corporate kowtow� at the WSJ.
Chance He’d Go: 1 to 1
WSJ Star: Robert Frank
Job: “Luxury� reporter. Richistan author, covers yachts and hedge funds. Hard to see how Murdoch would affect him, though.
Chance He’d Go: 3 to 1
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