Dow Jones family to consider sale
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The family that controls the Dow Jones media group says it will consider selling the firm to Rupert Murdoch.
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NEW YORK -- General Electric Co. and Pearson PLC may challenge News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones &amp; Co. with a plan that could let Dow Jones's controlling family to keep an interest in the company, the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal reported on their websites yesterday.
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Rupert Murdoch is expected to turn on the charm Monday to reassure the family that controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  that his $5 billion offer for the company won't undermine its flagship newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.
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Members of the far-flung Bancroft family converged in downtown Boston yesterday for a seven-hour meeting to discuss the fate of Dow Jones &amp; Co., the media conglomerate they have controlled for more than a century, and one key family member said he expects a decision to be reached by the end of the week about Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid ...
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Stocks may come under pressure next week as investors sell shares at year's end to prepare for tax season. But crude oil prices, earnings outlooks and moves in the dollar will also be closely watched.
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The Bancroft family, which controls media firm Dow Jones, holds "productive" talks on the sale of the business.
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The Bancroft family, controlling  shareholders of Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , are set to submit  to News Corp.(NWSa.N) a new set of proposals on how to protect  the Wall Street Journal&#39;s editorial independence, the Wall  Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Members of the family that controls Dow Jones met in person and by phone at a Boston law office yesterday to hear details of Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion bid for their company.
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There may be a growing pack of billionaires with designs on acquiring Dow Jones.
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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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Dow Jones & Company board members met with Ronald W. Burkle and Brad Greenspan, who are interested in buying a piece of the company.
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Members of the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , may decide by the end of the week whether to accept a $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp  for the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
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Applying public pressure to persuade Dow Jones & Co.'s  family owners to sell the media company to Rupert Murdoch may do more harm than good, one institutional shareholder said on Thursday.
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Stocks may come under pressure next  week as investors sell shares at year's end to prepare for tax  season. But crude oil prices, earnings outlooks and moves in  the dollar will also be closely watched.
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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...
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The board of Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  endorsed on Tuesday 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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Dow Jones &amp; Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, has effectively put the media company up for sale, saying last night that it would entertain purchase offers, including an unsolicited bid from Rupert Murdoch that was turned down one month ago.