DJ-NWS Watch: Key Shareholder Talks; Some Bancrofts Meet; Options Market Likes $65
Looking for easy answers on the News Corp.-Dow Jones front? Don’t read any further because we don’t have any. Rupert Murdoch’s offer of $60… Read more »
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Some Bancroft Family Members To Meet Murdoch On Bid
By Rafat Ali
Some Bancroft family members are planning to hold a private meeting Wednesday to discuss their options in the wake of News Corp.’s $5 billio… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: DJ Bid; Gannett & McClatchy’s April Numbers; Monster Signs
By Rafat Ali
Bunch of stories about the newspaper industry:
– Dow Jones shares fell through Monday after an analyst predicted News Corp.will soon drop i… Read more »
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Dow Jones Board To Stay On Sidelines Following News Corp Bid
By Rafat Ali
So says a WSJ story, quoting sources…the board met today for its regularly scheduled meeting, and discussed several issues, including the… Read more »
Murdoch Sends Letter To Persuade Bancrofts on DJ Bid; Assures Editorial Independence
By Rafat Ali
Updated: The Bancrofts had a family conference call and are still not impressed, reports WSJ again. During the call, family lawyers and reps… Read more »
Effects of Thomson-Reuters on Dow Jones Newswires
By Rafat Ali
WSJ has a good analytical piece on how Dow Jones Newswires, the low-profile but much more profitable unit of Dow Jones, could face tough com… Read more »
Industry Moves: Dow Jones Appoints ESPN EVP As Chief Revenue Officer For Media Group
By Rafat Ali
Dow Jones has created a new role of Chief Revenue Officer for for its consumer media group (which includes WSJ in print and online) and has… Read more »
Murdoch Praises Times Online
By James Quintana Pearce
Rupert Murdoch is happy with his company’s online efforts, particularly the London Times. “The outstanding example is the London Times. In g… Read more »
Murdoch: DJ $5 Billion Offer “More Than Fair”; DJ Shares Fall
By Rafat Ali
In News Corp’s Q1 earnings call today (we have the earnings report here), CEO Rupert Murdoch said that the company’s recent offer to acquire… Read more »
WSJ April Ad Revenue Falls 12 Percent; Local Online Ad Rev Up 51 Percent
By David Kaplan
As Rupert Murdoch presses ahead with News Corp.’s offer to buy Dow Jones, the monthly ad revenue picture has made the primary part of the ac… Read more »
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NWS-DJ: Sorkin Says Say Yes; Carr Says Don’t-Be-Fooled; Friedman Says CNBC.com Sucks
By Rafat Ali
An interesting two days of NYT business columns:
– one on Sunday by the deals reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, who writes a rather extraordina… Read more »
NWS-DJ: Let The Lawsuits Begin
Speaking of class-action suits, the first shareholder suit — there are bound to be more — has been filed against Dow Jones and the Bancrof… Read more »
Reuters Courted For Takeover By Unidentified Bidder; Thomson And News Corp. In The Frame
Reuters confirmed it has received a preliminary takeover approach from an unnamed suitor after shares jumped as much as 30 percent on the Lo… Read more »
NWS-DJ: Murdoch Woos; Some Investors Stew
Rupert Murdoch wants to meet with the Bancrofts as a group — accompanied not by his high-powered exec team, but by his high-powered adult c… Read more »
NWS-DJ: No Action By DJ Board
Information from a representative of the Bancroft family that a majority of voting power was against a sale to News Corp. left the Dow Jones… Read more »
NWS-DJ: Murdoch’s Take
Rupert Murdoch discussed News Corp.’s $5 billion offer during an interview with Fox Business Now’s Neil Cavuto, who is helping plan the Fox… Read more »
NWS-DJ: DJ Says Majority Of Bancroft Shares Are Against Sale; Union Says It’s Opposed
In its second statement of the day, Dow Jones said a director who represents the Bancroft family has informed the board that “members of the… Read more »
NWS-DJ: Thinking It Through
New motto: no day is ever safely declared slow when Rupert Murdoch has money to spend. As we wrote earlier, Murdoch has wanted Dow Jones fo… Read more »
News Corp. Offers $60 Per Share For Dow Jones; DJ Evaluating Offer
News Corp. has made an unsolicited offered to acquire Dow Jones at $60 per share …. CNBC, which has a relationship with DJ, first reported… Read more »
Despite Recent Controversy, Paid Search Continues To Gain Acceptance: Report
By David Kaplan
Search engine keywords represent the contemporary equivalent of a newsboy holding up a paper and yelling “Extra!” as Murray Gaylord, VP-mark… Read more »
@ EconSM: Focusing On The Health Of Journalism In The Social Media Age
By David Kaplan
How the the mainstream media is responding to the rise of social networks was addressed during one of the EconSM afternoon breakout sessions… Read more »
Earnings: DJ 1Q07 Online Ad Revenue Up 30 Percent; Change Pushes WSJ.com Circ Up 20 Percent
WSJ.com is reporting a 20 percent increase in paid subscriptions thanks to a change that takes into account the online portions of a $99 one… Read more »
Another Launch Today: AllThingsD, From WSJ
By Rafat Ali
Clarification: The site isn’t launching today. We’ll update you more when we know more.
Portfolio isn’t the only thing launching Monday…a… Read more »
Dow Jones Buys EFinancial News For $51.6 Million
By Rafat Ali
Certainly not in the Google-DoubleClick range, but an interesting deal completed by Dow Jones, as expected: it has bought UK-based financial… Read more »
Dow Jones Preparing Buy London’s eFinancialNews For $53 Million: Report
By David Kaplan
Dow Jones is set to acquire London-based investment banking newspaper Financial News for approximately $53 million, according to Telegraph U… Read more »
Updated: Francisco, MKTW and DJ Draw Attention For Reporter’s Role In Start-Up; Leaves MarketWatch
Updated: Francisco is leaving MarketWatch after this fracas…she has written her hurriedly-done last column for the site. She says in the c… Read more »
DJ-IAC Form JV For Community-Based Personal Finance Site To Be Headed By Dave Kansas
An interesting end-of-week CEO-level announcement from Dow Jones and IAC … They’re teaming up in a 50-50 joint venture to create a “commun… Read more »
Industry Moves: McPherson To Chair Dow Jones’ Board Of Directors; Brock, Sagan Named To Board
By David Kaplan
The Dow Jones board of directors will name M. Peter McPherson as chairman of the board on April 18, when the company holds its annual shareh… Read more »
Dow Jones Hires Booz Allen To Figure Out This Revenue Thing; Reuters Hires McKinsey Partner Fulltime
By Rafat Ali
It is the day of hiring consultants, in more ways than one: First Discovery did a reorg and hired two high-profile consultants. Now comes th… Read more »
@ SIIA: Zannino Keynote Video
By Rafat Ali
Rich Zannino, CEO of Dow Jones, gave the opening keynote at SIIA held last week in NYC (Staci covered it and moderated a panel as well).
Bel… Read more »
WSJ Helps Launch New Business Paper In India; Its International Plans
By Rafat Ali
In India, one of the biggest newspaper companies Hindustan Times has launched a new English-language business newspaper, the fourth fifth (t… Read more »
@ SIIA: Dow Jones, Deals & More
An excellent line-up today but sad to say I had to skip out when I lost a skirmish in the winter cold war. I’ll write up my notes on DJ CEO… Read more »
Earnings: DJ Continues Move Away From Print Reliance
Last year, Dow Jones reorganized to match its goal to move from am unhealthy reliance on print to what CEO Rich Zannino described again duri… Read more »
Earnings: DJ 4Q06: Online Ads Up 23 Percent; WSJ/Barron's Online Subs, Revenue Up
Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) showed improvement in what turned out to be a busy fourth quarter — acquiring the rest of Factiva, selling some region… Read more »
Dow Jones Restructuring Enterprise Group; Lays off 98 Employees
By Rafat Ali
Updated: The company is eliminating 98 jobs…this included management roles, and 62 were layoffs while the rest were open positions.
Dow Jo… Read more »
Unboxing the New Wall Street Journal
By Rafat Ali
Kind of an inside joke..those you Engadget and Gizmodo readers are aware of the gadget unboxing videos…plenty of them here on YouTube. Now… Read more »
WSJ In Wonderland: Print Shrinks; Online Grows
Today marked the much-touted relaunch of the print WSJ and corresponding enhancements at WSJ.com, concrete acknowledgment that at the highes… Read more »
DJ, Swisher And Mossberg Launching New Site; Online Extension Of D Conference
Interesting move from Dow Jones: it is extending its “D” franchise from an annual conference to allthingsd.com, a full-fledged ad-supported… Read more »
Dow Jones Finds Online Valuations Too High; TheStreet.com Hasn’t Scaled Enough
By Rafat Ali
Dow Jones is looking for more MarketWatch-like acquisitions…this much is public, as WSJ publisher and Dow Jones EVP Gordon Crovitz said at… Read more »
WSJ Unveils Sleeker Print Look, Some Online Plans; Preview Of Crovitz Mixer Q&A
Dow Jones took the latest steps today in the elaborately choreographed redesign of the Wall Street Journal print edition and complementary o… Read more »
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