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• Explications: Dysfunctional Bancroft Family Took One Last Bite At Dow Jones Apple

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Dow Jones, Explications, Financial Times, New York Times, Paul Gigot, Paul Steiger, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal

  The best piece of the weekend concerning Rupert Murdoch's takeover of Dow Jones came from former Journal employee Joseph Nocera, who wrote (behind the TimesSelect wall, naturally) about how the...

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• Heard On The Street: Miniature megalomaniac Michael Wolff stopped ...

  Published: September 11, 2007, 3:10 pm

  Tags: Douche, Heard On The Street, Michael Wolff, Paul Steiger, Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal

  Miniature megalomaniac Michael Wolff stopped by Wall Street Journal editor at large Paul Steiger's office yesterday, presumably for "research" on his Rupert Murdoch-approved Rupert Murdoch biography....

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• Air America Host Randi Rhodes Mugged?

  Published: October 16, 2007, 12:53 pm

  Tags: Company Town, Chuck Prince, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Henry Paulson, Howard Kurtz, Isaac Mizrahi, Jack Shafer, Milberg Weiss, Morgan Stanley, Paul Steiger, Randi Rhodes, Rolex, Sandy Weill, Skadden Arps, Thakoon

  Journal managing editor Paul Steiger. Surprise, they're big Democratic donors. [Slate] • Howard Kurtz took the nonstop promotion of his gossipy new book to its logical conclusion, interviewing himself on his own CNN show. [HuffPo]FINANCE • Deutsche Bank analyst Michael Mayo took it to Chuck Prince in the Citigroup conference

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• Pro Publica, MinnPost Burst Out of the Box

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:34 pm

  Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, City Pages, Crosscut, Family Foundations, Joel Kramer, Martin Brown Foundation, Minnpost, Paul Steiger, Pegasus News, Pioneer Press, Pro Publica, Star Tribune, The P

  Street Journal top editor Paul Steiger is heading Pro Publica. It's a new non-profit, dedicated to creating national quality investigative journalism. The funding will start paying for 24 journalists, and when's the last time you heard of more journalists being hired than you could count on two hands. Here the funding comes from Herbert and

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• New News Agency Funded By Left-wing Billionaires, Bias Question Ignored by MSM

  Published: October 19, 2007, 7:55 am

  Tags: Double Standards, Media Bias Debate, Herbert Sandler, Marion Sandler, Paul Steiger, Journalistic Issues

  of newly appointed chief Paul Steiger that everyone is eagerly awaiting ProPublica's start up. "My sense is that people are very optimistic. Just in conversations with people, high and low in the halls, I get the notion that folks are optimistic," he says. And of course, the extreme, leftist propaganda group Media Matters tries their best to

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• Resumes Flood Steiger's Maverick Venture; How About Some Big Names?

  Published: October 24, 2007, 3:17 am

  Tags: Media, Paul Steiger, Propublica

  piece, in the words of Paul Steiger, the former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, who will oversee the operation as editor in chief. To do so, Mr. Steiger will deploy two dozen reporters and editors. He'll then offer that work as exclusives to news outlets around the country. We would submit to their vetting process, their

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• ProPublica, MinnPost Burst Out of the Box

  Published: October 24, 2007, 4:58 pm

  Tags: Community Citizen User Gen Participatory Conversational Content, Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, City Pages, Crosscut, Family Foundations, Joel Kramer, Martin Brown Foundation, Minnpost, Paul Steiger, Pegasus News, Pioneer Press, Pro Publica, Star Tribune, The P

  Street Journal top editor Paul Steiger is heading ProPublica. It's a new non-profit, dedicated to creating national quality investigative journalism. The funding will start paying for 24 journalists, and when's the last time you heard of more journalists being hired than you could count on two hands. Here the funding comes from Herbert and

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• Dow Jones Snubbed Its Old Landlord

  Published: November 27, 2007, 4:16 pm

  Tags: Media, Dow Jones, Paul Steiger, Ric Clark, Rupert Murdoch, The Wall Street Journal

  that then managing editor Paul Steiger gave a rousing speech vowing to commit to downtown Manhattan and said, "We're not going to let the bastards chase us out of there." Six months later, Dow Jones was looking at 150,000 square feet of available space in midtown. It ultimately opted to stay downtown and commit to Mr. Clark. At least

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• Pro Publica Moves to the Financial District

  Published: December 11, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Media, Paul Steiger, Pro Publica

  said that editor-in-chief Paul Steiger, and Pro Publica's newly hired managing editor, Stephen Engelberg, would move in on January 1. The space is 10,790 square feet, according to

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• The $100 Wall Street Journal Holiday Party

  Published: December 12, 2007, 1:27 pm

  Tags: Media, Paul Steiger, The Wall Street Journal

  affair too. Though, Paul Steiger is donating $100 for it. The invite: Colleagues, After raising a little hell about the Journal's lack of an annual holiday party, I'm happy to announce that an unofficial gathering of WSJ employees on Wednesday, December 19 has received a seal of approval from Paul Steiger - not to mention his

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• What Journalists Can Learn From Screenwriters Strike

  Published: December 17, 2007, 11:48 pm

  Tags: Daily Newspaper Companies, Innovation, News And Democracy, Free Agent Nation, Joel Kramer, Joseph Menn, Knight Foundation, Minnpost, New Haven Independent, Paul Bass, Paul Steiger, Propublica, Screenwriters Stirke, The Politico

  Journal managing editor Paul Steiger, ProPublica's been hiring leading editors and journalists to produce high-profile investigative projects -- seed funded by angels -- and then place them on the web. It is in metro areas though that the needs for more local reporting and with the potential for dozens of start-ups that we're seeing more

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• Campaign Story Lines, All Knotted Up

  Published: February 11, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Campaign, Story, Lines, All, Knotted, Cable News Network Lp Lllp, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Mccain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, David Shuster, California, Msnbc Interactive News Llc, Nbc Universal Inc, Paul Steiger, Steve Capus, Iowa, Edward M Kennedy, Wolf Bli

  In the seven days before Super Tuesday, Mike Huckabee was featured in a grand total of 2 percent of presidential campaign stories.

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• Campaign Story Lines, All Knotted Up

  Published: February 11, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Campaign, Story, Lines, All, Knotted, Cable News Network Lp Lllp, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Mccain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, David Shuster, California, Msnbc Interactive News Llc, Nbc Universal Inc, Paul Steiger, Steve Capus, Iowa, Edward M Kennedy, Wolf Bli

  In the seven days before Super Tuesday, Mike Huckabee was featured in a grand total of 2 percent of presidential campaign stories.

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• Might Murdoch Skip A Generation At Wall Street Journal? [Rumormonger]

  Published: April 28, 2008, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Exclusive, Newspapers, Paul Steiger, Robert Thomson, Rumormonger, Top, Wall Street Journal

  At a farewell party last week, some Journal staffers bitched that Marcus Brauchli, the managing editor pushed out by the paper's new owners, had sold his silence for a generous severance package. "It...

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• Civil War At The Wall Street Journal [Newspapers]

  Published: April 30, 2008, 4:24 pm

  Tags: John Bussey, Marcus Brauchli, News Corporation, Newspapers, Nik Deogun, Paul Steiger, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, Top, Wall Street Journal

  Of all the cliques at the Wall Street Journal, the reporters and editors of the newspaper's Money & Investing team were most inclined to accommodate to the new r gime put in place by Rupert...

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