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NEW YORK - Rupert Murdoch installed his own leadership team at Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co. on Friday, a week before his acquisition of the company is expected to close. He also tapped his son James as heir apparent to his media empire News Corp.Les Hinton, who has spent his career at News Corp.'s newspapers, will become CEO of Dow Jones next week, following a vote of the company's shareholders on Dec. 13. Hinton currently oversees News Corp.'s papers in the United Kingdom, including The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sun, and News of the World. Robert Thomson, editor of The Times, will become publisher of the Journal. Dow Jones also owns Dow Jones Newswires, Barron's and a news database business called Factiva. Murdoch's takeover of Dow Jones triggered several other executive changes, including the departures of Dow Jones' CEO Richard Zannino, Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz and general counsel Joseph Stern. News Corp. declined to make Hinton or other executives available for interviews. Murdoch's son James, meanwhile, was appointed to a new role overseeing News Corp.'s media businesses in Europe and Asia, which include the U.K. newspaper group and two satellite TV operators, Sky Italia and the Hong Kong-based Star Group. The move clearly puts the 34-year-old James in line to succeed his father, clearing up lingering questions about who would be next in line to lead News Corp. after Rupert Murdoch, who is 76. Murdoch has said he wants to keep control of the company within his family. James Murdoch had been head of the U.K. satellite TV broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC but will relinquish that role. He will also rejoin the board of News Corp., which owns about 38 percent of BSkyB. Rupert Murdoch was originally rebuffed in his bid for Dow Jones by the Bancroft family, which had controlled the storied newspaper publisher for more than a century. A union representing Journal employees also opposed him, as did former board member and shareholder Jim Ottaway Jr., citing concerns about preserving the Journal's editorial independence and quality. But after several months of campaigning this summer, Murdoch was able to win over enough of the fractious Bancroft family to ensure the success of his bid, which values Dow Jones at more than $5 billion. News Corp. also agreed to set up an oversight board tasked with ensuring the Journal's editorial independence. The $60 per-share price that Murdoch offered represented a massive premium of 65 percent over the price Dow Jones shares were trading at just prior the offer becoming public. No other bidders came forward at that price. Murdoch has said the Journal has huge potential for growth thanks to the booming demand for business news and information around the globe. He has also said he wants to compete more aggressively with The New York Times for national readers and advertisers, while beefing up the Journal's Washington reporting, overseas and online operations.
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- Dow Jones family clears way for sale ( June 2, 2007 )
- GE, Pearson bow out of Dow Jones talks ( June 22, 2007 )


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Elizabeth Taylor's Love Letters From Richard Burton in July Vanity Fair
Elizabeth Taylor's Love Letters From Richard Burton Published
Truthfully, it's easy to forget that Elizabeth Taylor was one-half of the "marriage of the century." We know that her marriages have been many, but throughout the '60s and '70s Taylor and Burton enthralled the press and the public. Vanity Fair calls them the "super-couple who set the standard" for modern celebrities. They lived dramatically and opulently, which actually does sound more like celebrities of last century than this, which reserves adoration for celebrities that appear the most down to earth.What remains of the romance is Burton's prolific love letters. Vanity Fair calls Burton a "gifted, lyrical, playful writer" and Taylor a captivating muse. I tracked down some of Burton's writing, and below is how he described the 19-year-old Elizabeth he first met.
"She was so extraordinarily beautiful that I nearly laughed out loud. She . . . [was] famine, fire, destruction and plague . . . the only true begetter. Her breasts were apocalyptic, they would topple empires before they withered . . . her body was a miracle of construction. . . . She was unquestionably gorgeous. She was lavish. She was a dark, unyielding largesse. She was, in short, too bloody much."
If his letters are anything like this, then I believe!