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 BEIJING (AP) - Correspondents from The Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau who this year won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting have urged Dow Jones to reject a takeover bid by Rupert Murdoch due to concern he will meddle in the paper's China coverage.
Correspondent Mei Fong said Tuesday that she and six of her colleagues wrote a letter to the board of Dow Jones & Co. saying they fear that under Murdoch's leadership writers would be pressured to soften their reporting on China.
The May 10 letter pointed to a series of articles on the adverse effects on China's booming economy, which earned the China bureau the Pulitzer. Journal reporters were worried that such hard-hitting reports might not be possible if Murdoch's media conglomerate, News Corp., were to take charge of the paper, it said.
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