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There goes the neighborhood. Rupert Murdoch is planning to move his Wall Street Journal newsroom from the financial district where it's lived for over 100 years to News Corp's headquarters on Sixth Avenue. The Midtown Journal just doesn't have quite the same ring, though. We predict singing rumble sequences in the cafeteria between WSJ staffers and their new Fox and New York Post siblings. Manhattan's newspapers have either died or migrated uptown over the century, choking the neighborhood around Rockefeller Center, but the Journal was a holdout of a bygone era. After the jump, a stroll around New York's former press nucleus.
Manhattan's famous Park Row, once home to (l-r) Joseph Pulitzer's World, as well as the Tribune, the Press, the Times, and the New York Sun, is no more. The reincarnated Sun attempted to house itself in the paper's original Newspaper Row building without luck—not enough T1 lines or something—and had to settle for a spot down the street.
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I would totally read the Midtown Journal. If it was online, and free, that is.
next thing you know they'll be printing it on purple paper, oh noes!
It's just a matter of time until the Forigners take over ALL the real estate in Manhattan and we end up with The Bed-Stuy Journal.
@hypocriteoath: may as well just print it on yellow paper now that murdoch owns it.
Don't forget the Post's old building on South Street.
He's also adding a strip club in the lobby. And a porn store
It's like introducing rabbits to Australia all over again.
He's brilliant. He knows he's got problems with credibility, and a staff with mixed feelings about his ownership, so he's going for broke and revamping the whole thing.
He figures if it doesn't work, he'll be able to put down the revolt by broadcasting the ludicrous nature of worker's demands on Fox News.
Wait, WTF is up with 1155 Avenu of the Americas at 44th street (with the Thomas Pink storefront)? Isn't that a midtown office for the WSJ?
It's an advertising office. Not editorial.
Yes, but "The Avenue of the Americas Journal" has a lovely globalization-ring to it!
The typing monkeys Murdoch hires to produce his newspapers would not mingle well at the Wall Street watering holes.
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