CNN: Dow Jones board to take over negotiations with Murdoch for sale of WSJ and Dow Jones.

[Fridays Child]

From www.dowjones.com, here's the board:

Dow Jones Board of Directors

Committee Memberships

(1) Audit
(2) Compensation
(3) Corporate Governance


M. Peter McPherson (1,2)
Chairman of the Board
Dow Jones & Company
President, National Association of State Universities
and Land-Grant Colleges
President Emeritus, Michigan State University

Christopher Bancroft (2)
Bancroft Operations

Jon E. Barfield (1)
Chairman and President
The Bartech Group Inc.

John Brock (2)
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.

Lewis B. Campbell (3)
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer,
Textron Inc.

Eduardo Castro-Wright (3)
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Wal-Mart Stores, USA

Michael B. Elefante (3)
Partner, Hemenway & Barnes

John M. Engler (1,3)
President and Chief Executive Officer
National Association of Manufacturers

Harvey Golub (2,3)
Chairman
Campbell Soup Company

Leslie Hill (3)
Retired Airline Captain, American Airlines

Dieter von Holtzbrinck (3)
Chairman of the Supervisory Board,
Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH

David K. P. Li (1,3)
Chairman & Chief Executive,
The Bank of East Asia, Limited

Frank N. Newman (1,2)
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
Shenzhen Development Bank
Chairman Emeritus
Bankers Trust Company


Paul Sagan (3)
President and Chief Executive Officer,
Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Elizabeth Steele (3)
President,
Main Street Landing LLC

Richard F. Zannino
Chief Executive Officer,
Dow Jones & Company

[MadHound]

1. Let's hope that Murdoch doesn't get his slimy little hands on WSJ

Not that I'm a big fan of the paper's politics, but at least it is a relatively honest dealer when it comes to the business of business. Murdoch gets ahold of it and the paper is going to turn into his business mouthpiece, with as much intellectual honesty as Faux.

[Fridays Child]

2. You've got that right!

[Crewleader]

3. Hi pal

:hi: k&r