AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER HISTORY GROUP NEWSLETTER ISSN 1443-4962 No. 44 September 2007 Compiled for the ANHG by Rod Kirkpatrick, PO Box 675 Mount Ommaney Qld 4074. Ph. 61-7-3279 2279. Email:
[email protected] The publication is independent. COPY DEADLINE AND WEBSITE ADDRESS Deadline for the next Newsletter: 30 November 2007. Subscription details appear at end of Newsletter. [Number 1 appeared October 1999.] The Newsletter is online through the “Publications” link of the University of Queensland’s School of Journalism & Communication Website at www.uq.edu.au/sjc/ and through the ePrint Archives at the University of Queensland at http://espace.uq.edu.au/) EDITOR’S NOTE From this issue, each section of the Newsletter is numbered and a new section has been added: “Current Developments: Online News”. It appears as Section 2, with “Current Developments: Metropolitan” as Section 1. Within each section, there is now numbering unique to that section. The ANHG gives special thanks this issue to Peter T. Gill who forwarded extracts from three publications that gave rise to three items – including the one on the “Press Dress” – that appear in Section 4, “Newspaper History”. – Rod Kirkpatrick 1 – CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS: METROPOLITAN 44.1.1 MURDOCH AND DOW JONES: THE REPORTS News Corporation has succeeded in its protracted $US5 billion acquisition of Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal. The deal was clinched on 1 August. All parts of the News Corporation empire are expected to benefit from the deal. Nick Tabakoff reports (Australian, 2 August 2007, p.19): News Corp will use the purchase of Down Jones as a beachhead to broaden its reach in business journalism and beyond, as it looks to expand in print, television and online operations.