Comments on: News Corp: We Spent $2.8 Billion Too Much on Dow Jones

By: Wall Street Journal Promises New Pay Sites, Someday

Wall Street Journal Promises New Pay Sites, Someday — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:37:10 +0000

[...] it is worth noting that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, who was just forced to take a huge write-down on the Journal, has sounded increasingly disenchanted with advertising-based businesses, period. You may recall [...]

By: WSJ Promises New Pay Sites, Some Day | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:52:59 +0000

[...] it is worth noting that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, who was just forced to take a huge writedown on the Journal, has sounded increasingly disenchanted with advertising-based businesses, period. You may recall [...]

By: Cablevision: Newsday Deal Wasn’t (Quite) as Bad as We Feared | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:46:42 +0000

[...] their publishers, who have taken on way too much debt and/or paid too much for the papers (just ask Rupert Murdoch) who have the real [...]

By: Viacom’s Fourth Quarter: Not A Disaster | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:45:10 +0000

[...] the last year or so, it didn’t have to announce anything really big. (That sound you hear are News Corp. (NWSA) and Cablevision (CVC) investors slapping their heads, over and [...]

By: Cablevision to Investors: Sorry We Bought That (Really Expensive) Newspaper Last Year | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:01:47 +0000

[...] week, we saw News Corp. (NWSA) go through this exercise, when it wrote off half the value of the $5.7 billion it spent on Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. Now it’s Cablevision’s (CVC) turn: The Long Island-based cable company is taking a [...]

By: Weekend Update, 02.07.09 | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:15:12 +0000

[...] News Corp: We Spent $2.8 Billion Too Much on Dow Jones [...]

By: Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:45:19 +0000

Sam, you bum me out — and I’m a dyspeptic sort myself. What do you like?

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:10:18 +0000

News Corp. spent $5.7 billion too much for Dow Jones/WSJ

By: » News Corp: We Spent $2.8 Billion Too Much on Dow Jones | Peter … » Dow Jones Stock Investing

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:07:02 +0000

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By: Roundup: Salesforce, Lenovo departures; job-loss stock rallies » VentureBeat

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:06:10 +0000

[...] News Corp. takes $2.8 billion write-down on Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal) purchase — Peter Kafka has a look at the SEC filing. [...]

By: Mark Omega

Mark Omega — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:45:34 +0000

You could always parcel some of The Journal off in a stock swap, say with AOL, Disney, and/or maybe CNN. You notice Carlos Slim(sic) Higuera is diversifying his assets, taking a position in the New York Times. It’s like a chess game. :)

By: Finance Geek » Rupert: Oops, The WSJ Is Worth Half What We Paid (NWS)

Finance Geek » Rupert: Oops, The WSJ Is Worth Half What We Paid (NWS) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:08:25 +0000

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