News Corp, Dow Jones reach tentative $5 bln deal: report
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc. Chief Executive Richard Zannino tentatively agreed on Monday to a $5 billion takeover bid by News Corp., though the company's controlling Bancroft family remains divided on the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc. and Rupert  Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. are close to a pact that would protect the  journalistic independence of The Wall Street Journal if News  Corp. acquired the media company, according to newspaper  reports on Sunday.
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Dow Jones &amp; Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, agreed yesterday to buy MarketWatch, the parent company of the financial news Web site CBS MarketWatch, for about $486 million, executives close to the negotiations said.
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News Corp&#39;s (NWSa.N) deal to buy Wall  Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co Inc  should close  in the next 60 days, a top News Corp executive said on Monday.
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News Corp.  is willing to go further than it has before in acceding to tighter safeguards of editorial independence as a condition of buying Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing sources close to News Corp.
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Rupert Murdoch said on Monday that he  had a &quot;constructive&quot; meeting with the Bancrofts to reassure the  family that controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. that his $5 billion  offer for the company will not undermine its flagship  newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.
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Advisers to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Dow Jones & Co. Inc. could reach a pact on editorial independence as early as Monday, a source familiar with the situation said, heightening expectations a takeover deal could soon be reached.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has reportedly reached a tentative agreement to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones &amp; Co.
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News Corp's  deal to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co Inc  should close in the next 60 days, a top News Corp executive said on Monday.
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  said on Wednesday that its board will take over discussions over News Corp.'s  $5 billion bid to buy the company.
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Members of the Bancroft family,  which controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , met in Boston on  Monday to consider a $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News  Corp (NWSa.N)  for the publisher of The Wall Street  Journal.
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General Electric Co. and Pearson Plc may challenge News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co., with a plan that could let Dow Jones's controlling Bancroft family keep an interest in the company, the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal reported on their Web sites on Sunday.
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NEW YORK - Dow Jones &amp; Co. has reached a tentative deal on a contract with the reporters union at The Wall Street Journal, ending several months of sometimes contentious talks.
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Dow Jones & Co.'s board and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. have completed talks on a $5 billion buyout of Dow Jones and are expected to announce a deal next week, London's The Business weekly magazine reported on Friday.
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The board of Dow Jones & Co Inc has endorsed a $5 billion buyout offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, sending the deal to the controlling Bancroft family for final approval.
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NEW YORK -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has reached a tentative agreement to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., the Journal reported on its Web site late Monday.
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Dow Jones & Company tentatively agreed to be acquired by Rupert Murdochâs News Corporation on Monday.