Wall Street Journal Reports Member Of "Independent" Dow Jones Panel Tied Financially To NewsCorp

Wall Street Journal:

A foundation run by one of the members of News Corp.'s proposed committee to protect Dow Jones & Co.'s editorial integrity has financial ties to News Corp., despite the agreement of both companies that committee members should be independent of both.

As part of its agreement earlier this week to purchase Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, for $5 billion, News Corp. agreed to create a five-member panel to protect Dow Jones's journalism from interference by its new owner.

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