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The unintended influence of Rupert Murdoch
The influence of Rupert Murdoch is a subject of much discussion online. Personally, I’m in agreement with Felix Salmon of Market Movers, who wrote: [W]here editorial independence is valuable, Murdoch values it. Where it isn’t, he doesn’t. So even if he’s interfered in editorial decisions in China in the past, that doesn’t mean he’ll do…
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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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Fox News Business Channel
Although you’re not about to see a Sky News Business Channel anytime soon, viewers in the U.S. will be getting an FNC-flavored biz channel eventually. And the LA Times carries the shocking prediction that Rupert Murdoch will buy venerable but redesigned biz paper, The Wall Street Journal, to help make this dream come true: Murdoch…