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Article: Murdoch completes deal Jones deal
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- December 14, 2007
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NEW YORK (AP) - Rupert Murdoch completed his $5 billion-plus deal
to acquire Dow Jones & Co. Thursday, adding The Wall Street Journal
to his global media conglomerate News Corp. and ending a century of
control by the Bancroft family.
The changeover is sure to bring significant changes to the
Journal, starting with a new management team that was announced late
last week. Longtime News Corp. publishing executive Les Hinton will
be chief executive, while Robert Thomson, editor of Murdoch's The
Times newspaper in London, will be publisher. Several Dow Jones
executives are departing, including CEO Richard Zannino.
Shareholders approved the deal by a margin of 60.3 percent. About
78 percent of the ...
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......note that given News Corp.'s interest in Dow Jones and Thomson Corp...of proposals to News Corp. about editorial...Journal. Instead, Dow Jones' board said Wednesday...could accelerate Dow Jones' negotiations with News Corp.
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