News Corporation's Acquisition of Dow Jones


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Case Code : BSTR301
Case Length : 20 Pages
Period : 2007-2008
Pub Date : 2009
Teaching Note : Available
Organization : News Corporation; Dow Jones
Industry : Media & Newspaper Publishing
Countries : Global; USA

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The Aftermath of the Deal

Heads started to roll at Dow Jones even before the acquisition process had been completed. A director of Dow Jones, Dieter Von Holtzbrinck (Dieter), had abstained from voting when the board had voted in favor of the bid on July 17, 2007.

By abstaining, he was seen as openly siding with the people who were arguing about the independence of WSJ under Murdoch. Dieter later said in his resignation letter, "Although I'm convinced that News Corp. offer is very generous in financial terms, I'm very worried that Dow Jones' unique journalistic values will long-term strongly suffer after the proposed sale."...

Looking Ahead

Analysts opined that despite the reputation enjoyed by Dow Jones in the financial news arena, it was one of the smaller companies in the world media industry. With revenues of just US$1,784 million for the year 2006 it could not diversify into other new channels such as the Internet and mobile phones more aggressively all by itself...

Exhibits

Exhibit I: The World's Top Ten Media Companies for the Year 2006
Exhibit II (A): News Corp.'s Consolidated Statements of Operations
Exhibit II (B): News Corp.'s Consolidated Balance Sheets
Exhibit III: Some of the Key Assets of News Corporation
Exhibit IV(A): Dow Jones' Consolidated Statements of Operations
Exhibit IV (B): Dow Jones' Consolidated Statements of Operations
Exhibit V: Key Facts of Dow Jones and News Corporation at the Time of Takeover


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