Categories: OLD Media Moves

Vanity Fair writer to pen book on Dow Jones deal

Keith Kelly oof the New York Post writes Friday that Vanity Fair writer Michael Wolff has signed a deal with Doubleday to write a book about News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch‘s deal to purchase Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal.

Kelly wrote, “Wolff, a two-time National Magazine Award winner while at New York magazine, wrote extensively about Murdoch and Dow Jones’ controlling Bancroft family for the September issue of Vanity Fair.

“His last book, ‘Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures With the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media,’ was published by HarperCollins, but since that imprint is also owned by News Corp., he was forced to jump to a new publishing house.

“Phyllis Grann, the veteran editor who was once the head of Penguin and is now a senior editor at Doubleday, has been assigned the book.”

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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.