Categories: OLD Media Moves

What will happen to Barron's?

Forbes.com columnist Gary Weiss wonders on his blog Saturday about what will happen to Dow Jones & Co. publication Barron’s, which has not been mentioned in its negotiations with News Corp. and was not mentioned in the editorial safeguards agreed upon by the two companies.

Weiss wrote, “Under this agreement, the editor of Barron’s can be replaced immediately, and this publication could immediately be used as a showpiece for News Corp. staffers and editorials. Its staffers could be immediately utilized by the new Fox business news channel.

“Or at least, that’s what I would do if I were Rupert Murdoch. I’d put one of my own people in charge of Barron’s ASAP.

“I wonder if this omission is a reflection of the lack of importance given to Barron’s by both sides.”

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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.