Wall Street Journal
Dow Jones' board is taking over talks on the future of the company, which increases the likelihood of a deal to enable
Rupert Murdoch to buy the Wall Street Journal publisher. As the Bancroft family and its advisers haggled over Murdoch's $5 billion proposal, some directors became increasingly concerned that the slow pace was endangering buyout prospects, reports the WSJ. || Related
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