When Murdoch bought the Journal, he also made clear his desire to reshape the paper to more directly challenge the New York Times, even reportedly sending Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. Education issues have virtually disappeared from the front pages as has-ironically enough, given the current state of affairs-attention to the media industry. Front-page coverage of health and medicine has been de-emphasized the past few years. Yet attention to other subject areas has fallen. and lifestyle subjects, have increased noticeably in recent years. And some categories of news, such as coverage of government, foreign news involving the U.S. That, to some degree, reflects the JournalвЂ™s move toward a more general interest publication. In the past three and a half years, front-page coverage of business is down about one-third from what it had been in 2007, the last year of the old ownership regime. Under the Australian-born media magnate, coverage has clearly moved away from what had been the paperвЂ™s core mission under previous ownership-covering business and corporate America. The study looked at front-page coverage of the Journal and by way of comparison, the New York Times from 2007-2011. A PEJ examination of the paperвЂ™s page 1 coverage from 2007 through June 2011 finds some clear shifts in direction. One way of examining the Murdoch era at the Journal is to see whether its news agenda, as expressed on the front pages, has changed in the nearly four years since he bought it and if so, how.

The Journal made its own news this past week with a strongly worded July 18 editorial defending the company and lashing out at the вЂњcommercial and ideological motives of our competitor-critics.вЂќ That produced a chorus of criticism and some questions about MurdochвЂ™s stewardship of the paper. outlets under a brighter spotlight-particularly the prestigious Wall Street Journal he acquired by purchasing Dow Jones for $5 billion in 2007. Although the scandal enveloping Rupert MurdochвЂ™s media empire has focused on his British properties, it has also put News CorpвЂ™s.

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