From The Star (Malaysia), December 27:
“There have been no conversations with anyone or either organisation about an acquisition,” spokesman Ty Trippet said in the tweet, which was retweeted by billionaire owner Michael Bloomberg.
News website Axios reported last Friday that Bloomberg was interested in acquiring either the Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, or the Washington Post from Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, citing a source familiar with Bloomberg’s thinking.
Reuters reported on Friday that Michael Bloomberg had expressed a desire to own a big-name newspaper over the years, but had not reached out to Murdoch to discuss a possible purchase of Dow Jones and its flagship paper the Journal....
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