Apr 30 2006
Xinhua News and Dow Jones
Recent news report saying:
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — Newspaper publisher Dow Jones & Co. and the Xinhua News Agency are considering a bid for AFX, the business news service owned by Agence France-Presse, according to a published report Sunday.
Xinhua and Dow Jones, the parent of MarketWatch, could be bidding against Thomson Corp. , which is already in talks with Agence France-Presse about an AFX acquisition, The Business newspaper reported, citing unnamed banking sources.
–Talking about serious integration: the duality of Chinese media the openness in financial and economics news versus the rigidity of official propaganda.