Categories: OLD Media Moves

Prediction: WSJ staffers will move on, replaced by English and Aussies

David Ho of the Austin American-Statesman writes that some believe that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch will try to hire more British journalists at the Wall Street Journal if he is successful in acquiring it.

Ho wrote, “Edmonds said Murdoch is unlikely to change the Journal in ways perceived as ‘trashy or taking it down market,’ but he might seek to bring in British or Australian journalists.

“‘He does think they operate quickly and a little bit faster on their feet than American journalists,’ he said.

“Morton said that no matter what Murdoch plans for the long term, ‘one of the things you’ll see if Murdoch succeeds in this is probably a fair amount of staffers moving on to somewhere else.'”

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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.