Categories: OLD Media Moves

Rest assured, The Wall Street Journal will change

Steve Jagler, executive editor of the Small Business Times in Milwaukee, writes Friday that he fears the changes about to happen at The Wall Street Journal once News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch closes on his deal to buy its parent company.

Jagler wrote, “That independent voice and analysis is what makes The Wall Street Journal credible. In a country that offers only two viable political parties as options, there is ample reason to skewer both Democrats and Republicans, and The Journal plays no favorites.

“The question now is: Will The Wall Street Journal retain that credibility? That is doubtful, now that the publication’s parent company, Dow Jones, will be acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which owns and operates Fox News, the New York Post and other conservative media outlets.

“Many folks at Dow Jones opposed the deal. Numerous people posting on a discussion board at The Wall Street Journal’s web site promised to cancel their subscriptions.”

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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.