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The Wall Street Journal should read its own history
An owner “most properly, considers his newspaper as a plain business proposition.” WSJ, 1925Anyone considering the absurd talk of editorial strictures being put around the Wall Street Journal prior to its possible purchase by Rupert Murdoch might want to look into the Journal’s own archives. Back in January 1925 it published an op-ed titled, “A…
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Paid content: the Dow Jones bid
The value of financial journalism and high-quality journalism is that you can charge for it. Rupert MurdochHere’s the best take on the Dow Jones bid, written back in January 2007 by David Warsh: It is the ticker and its history that is the secret of why the On-line WSJ makes so much money on the…
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News Corp bids for WSJ
I hate to blow my own trumpet and say you read it here first…but back on January 2 I was repeating a prediction from the LA Times predicting this. Obviously I wasn’t making clear when it might happen, the sums involved, and was simply passing on something I’d read. But hey, for a moment I…
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Libel news 3
Student feedback is what keeps us educationalists going. Here’s a little from one course blog on the ‘Dow Jones Defence’ panel that we ran on Monday – the first time the journalists who broke the Jameel story had come together to discuss it publicly. I’ll keep it short: I thought the Jameel panel today was…