WSJ reporters protest Murdoch bid

June 29, 2007 Wall Street Journal reporters did not show up for work Thursday morning as a protest against Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy parent company Dow Jones & Co. Inc. and the company's labor contract proposals. Between 150 and 175 reporters took part and Journal bureaus in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas and elsewhere were nearly empty, according to a Journal reporter who declined to be identified because of fears of retribution if Dow Jones sells itself to Murdoch's News Corp. The Independent Association of Publishers' Employees asked all unionized reporters who have worked there longer than six months to join the protest, the reporter said.

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