A century of Bancroft-family ownership at Dow Jones & Co. is over.
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
sealed a $5 billion agreement to purchase the publisher of The Wall
Street Journal after three months of drama in the controlling family
and public debate about journalistic values.
One of the oldest and best-known franchises in the
newspaper industry, beset in recent years by business pressures, now
enters a new era as part of a world-wide media conglomerate. Mr.
Murdoch said yesterday he could add four pages of news coverage to the
Journal.
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DOW JONES, PAST AND FUTURE
The 76-year-old mogul, whose properties range from the
Fox television network to the Times of London, negotiated hard to win
the paper he long coveted. The Bancrofts worried about protecting the
reputation of the Journal, the nation’s second-largest newspaper. They
feared Mr. Murdoch would meddle in the paper’s editorial affairs and
import the brand of sensationalist journalism found in some of his
properties such as the New York Post. Some Bancrofts sought other
buyers.
But ultimately, Mr. Murdoch’s $60-a-share bid — a 67%
premium above Dow Jones’s share price when the offer became public –
was the only serious offer on the table. Key family members, spurred by
Dow Jones’s board and advisers, decided they had no choice.
“On the one hand it is quite sad, but on the other it
was the only reasonable thing to do,” said Elisabeth Goth Chelberg, a
Bancroft family member who unsuccessfully tried a decade ago to get the
family more involved in management. “Now I look forward to a better Dow
Jones. It’s going to have more money and a world presence and all of
the things that it could have and should have had but didn’t.”
风云新人成都赛区 林敏聪现场赠画大学教授
http://ent.sina.com.cn/y/2007-07-28/12171655337.shtml
现年30岁的51933号选手肖晟是留美的经济学博士，现任美国FURMAN大学经济系和亚洲研究系助理教授，西南财经大学国际商学院客座教授。
风云新人的公正性和权威性吸引了肖晟，他觉得这个比赛非常适合自己的特点，于是毅然决然地回国挑战自我。
肖晟在比赛时演唱的是张学友(听歌)的《一千个伤心的理由》，评委觉得他的声音很不错，但是可能是没有经过专业训练的缘故，在音准和节奏方面还有所欠缺。
林敏聪说肖晟的样子很文气，带着眼镜，颇有教授的风度，虽然很有气质，但是外形方面还是不太好，希望以后能够多注意一些。
林敏聪还现场画了肖晟的速写
