Dow Jones board backs Murdoch
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Media & professional: The board of WSJ-owner Dow Jones votes to sell firm to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, pending approval of the Bancrofts.
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Media & professional: Rupert Murdoch has succeeded with his Â£2.5bn bid for Dow Jones, the Business magazine reports on its website.
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If Rupert Murdoch can assure the family owners of Dow Jones that he will not meddle in the news coverage of the Wall Street Journal, the family will tell the company's board of directors it can start negotiating a sale price with the media mogul, a source said yesterday.
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The boardâs support for a deal would leave a final decision to be made by Dow Jonesâ fractious controlling family, the Bancrofts, which could still seek to scuttle the sale.
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Dow Jones & Co Inc.&#39;s board of  directors said on Thursday that the company plans to consider  alternatives for the company, including a $5 billion bid by  Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. to buy it.
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Rupert Murdoch won shareholder approval on Tuesday to move the corporate headquarters of his $48 billion News Corp. Ltd. (NCP.AX: Quote, Profile
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A tentative deal between News Corp.  and Dow Jones & Co Inc.  would give an independent board the power to approve the hiring and firing of top editors at The Wall Street Journal, three sources said on Thursday.
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"The final approval is in the next two, three week's time, or not at all."  RUPERT Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, has said he has no plans to raise his $5 billion bid for media group Dow Jones. via The Courier Mail
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SYDNEY Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. said Wednesday that it might strengthen corporate governance provisions after investors and shareholder groups said they would vote against the company&#39;s proposed move to
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LOS ANGELES -- Dow Jones &amp; Co.'s board will take the lead in deciding whether the Wall Street Journal publisher will be sold to News Corp. for $60 a share as MySpace.com founder Brad Greenspan offered the same price for 25 percent of the company.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and Dow Jones & Co. today have agreed in principle to editorial protections for the latter's Wall Street Journal, taking Murdoch one step closer to owning the company and its marquee newspaper.
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NEW YORK -- Shareholders of Dow Jones & Co. gave final approval Thursday to a $5 billion bid from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to acquire the media company, the final step needed before one of the world's most influential newspapers, The Wall Street Journal, changes hands.
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Dow Jones & Co. director Dieter von Holtzbrinck quit yesterday to protest the board's recommendation that the company accept Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion purchase bid, saying he is worried that the media mogul will compromise the editorial integrity of Dow Jones's prized jewel, the Wall Street...
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After six months of cajoling and negotiating, Rupert Murdoch Tuesday won overwhelming support for his plan to shift News Corp&#39;s major share market listing to Wall Street.
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Media & professional: Dow Jones staff have enlisted the help of LA billionaire Ron Burkle to fight Rupert Murdoch's bid.
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BOSTON/NEW YORK  - Members of the Bancroft family that controls Dow Jones & Co Inc met in Boston on Monday to consider a $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp  for the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and advisers for Dow Jones and its controlling Bancroft family were close last night to agreeing on terms designed to ensure The Wall Street Journal's editorial independence if the company accepts a takeover bid from Murdoch, according to several people briefed on the talks.