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Rumor: Google Bidding for Dow Jones

The buried lede in a Bloomberg story on the pending sale of Dow Jones & Co., the 125 year-old newspaper publisher best known for The Wall Street Journal: Washington Post Co., Gannett Co. and even Google Inc. may be interested, said Michael Chren, managing director of Allegiant Asset Management Co. in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. […]

The buried lede in a Bloomberg story on the pending sale of Dow Jones & Co., the 125 year-old newspaper publisher best known for The Wall Street Journal:

Washington Post Co., Gannett Co. and even Google
Inc. may be interested, said Michael Chren, managing director of
Allegiant Asset Management Co. in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

The article doesn't spell out what inside access to info Mr Chren might have, but it's an intriguing image: The respected, reporting-driven WSJ coupled with Google's all-new approach to ad sales.