Okay. The Wall Street Journal speculative fun keeps on coming. Nick Denton dishes his rumour in the comments after Dealbreaker outs it: Nick Denton at 03:05 PM on 05÷16÷08 Reply by Email * @Phyllis Nefler: Rebekah Wade. But, yes. That was the rumor I was hearing. Interestingly, she was mentioned earlier in the year as a possible […]
Wall Street Journal
Portfolio speculates on an outside candidate for the Robert Thomson deputy role at the Wall Street Journal: Lewis has many qualities of Murdoch’s ideal candidate: business acumen (he made waves as a deal reporter for the Financial Times in the 1990s), impatience for change (the youngest editor of the Telegraph ever, he has focused on dragging […]
So what was the point of that special committee to oversee editorial independence at the Wall Street Journal? I must remind myself. Oh yes.
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has a nice run of numbers on the Wall Street Journal, pre– and post-Murdoch. Of more interest to me is how the WSJ now lines up against the New York Times.