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Article: Dow Jones mulls Murdoch bid.
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- The Star (Amman, Jordan)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2007
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By Frank Ahrens WASHINGTON--The Dow Jones board of directors met Tuesday to formally consider an agreement accepting Rupert Murdoch's unsolicited $5 billion bid for the company, a purchase that would give him control of the Wall Street Journal. Executives from Murdoch's News Corp. and Dow Jones emerged from tough negotiations Monday afternoon after hammering out a deal to bring the Journal, Barron's financial weekly, Dow Jones Newswires and the Ottaway community papers into the News Corp. global empire. News Corp. holdings include the Fox television network, Twentieth Century Fox movie studios, satellite television networks in Europe and Asia, and numerous newspapers in ...
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...In a file photo News Corp. chairman and chief executive ... Bancroft family, who control Dow Jones & Co., Monday, June ... New York. Murdoch's News Corp. has reached a tentative agreement to buy Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The ...
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