Dow Jones & Company was founded in 1882. News Corporation has succeeded in purchasing the Dow Jones & Company, the 125-year-old financial information firm and publisher of The Wall Street Journal in a three month long  $5 billion takeover bid. Rupert Murdoch is the chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation. Dow Jones, which also owns Barron's Magazine, has been owned by the Bancraft family since 1902. To address concerns that the Journal will be negatively altered, Murdoch plans to add four new pages of coverage, and has agreed to form a comittee to decide on hiring or firing any editors.
Dow Jones & Company was founded in 1882. News Corporation has succeeded in purchasing the Dow Jones & Company, the 125-year-old financial information firm and publisher of The Wall Street Journal in a three month long US $5 billion takeover bid. Rupert Murdoch is the chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation. Dow Jones, which also owns Barron's Magazine, has been owned by the Bancroft family since 1902. To address concerns that the Journal will be negatively altered, Murdoch plans to add four new pages of coverage, and has agreed to form a committee to decide on hiring or firing any editors.
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