GE, Pearson May Put In Bid to Buy Dow Jones

from National Public Radio

General Electric, which owns broadcasting giant NBC, and Pearson PLC, the publisher of The Financial Times, are in talks about joining up to make an alternative bid for Dow Jones & Co., which owns The Wall Street Journal. If they make a bid, it would rival Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation's $5-billion offer.

Broadcast Dates

• Morning Edition, June 18, 2007