Rubert Murdoch's Bid for the Wall Street Journal

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Susan Page
Rubert Murdoch's Bid for the Wall Street Journal

Rupert Murdoch's five billion dollar bid to acquire the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, one of this country's few remaining family controlled newspapers, highlights mounting financial pressures in the news business. A look at some of...

Rupert Murdoch's five billion dollar bid to acquire the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, one of this country's few remaining family controlled newspapers, highlights mounting financial pressures in the news business. A look at some of the long term trends for U.S. newspapers

Guests

Frank Ahrens

The Washington Post radio reporter

John Carroll

editor of the Los Angeles Times, 2000-2005
and editor of the Baltimore Sun, 1991 to 2000

Lauren Rich Fine

Director of Research at ContentNext, an organization focused on media related newsletters and conferences, a Practitioner-in-Residence at Kent State University's College of Communications & Information, and a former Merrill Lynch research manager specializing in media.

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