Wall Street Journal managing editor stepping down

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Marcus Brauchli is departing as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal after a little less than a year on the job, a person familiar with the matter said late Monday.

Brauchli's departure, which was first reported on the Web site of Time magazine, comes four months after the Journal's parent company Dow Jones & Co. was acquired by Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate News Corp.

... It was not yet clear what led to Brauchli's decision, and Wall Street Journal spokesman Robert Christie declined to comment, as did News Corp. spokeswoman Teri Everett.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/04/21/financial/f192250D06.DTL&tsp=1

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Earlier today, from Newsweek:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/132852

This week the Murdochian Era of the Proper Newspaperman has its debut. When readers open their newspapers Monday morning, they will discover a Wall Street Journal fashioned to the tastes of the man who revolutionized media markets from Australia to North America. With its increased focus on politics, international news, culture and sports, Murdoch's reconceived Journal represents nothing short of a formal declaration of war on that most venerable of journalistic institutions, The New York Times.

[Dr.Phool]

1. Ole Rupert didn't like this parody at all.

http://www.wsjparody.com/

Features a nude image of Ann Coulter on page 3.

From one of the original editors of National Lampoon. Murdoch has been sending his distributors around the country to buy up every copy they can find. I got mine from Amazon.