Newsday
Suffolk County Executive
Steve Levy says
Rupert Murdoch called on Monday "to tell me that he is looking to ink a deal within the next two weeks to purchase Newsday and wanted to start a working relationship."
Mort Zuckerman's reps insist the Daily News owner is still in the running. "This is not a done deal," says one. "The News will be submitting an additional formal proposal by the end of the week."
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New York Times: Murdoch's $580 million bid for Newsday and his urgency in remaking the Wall Street Journal worry his competitors and cause angst in many newsrooms, including his own.
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Variety: "If Murdoch really wants to bedevil the newspaper industry," says journalism prof
John K. Hartman, "he will spin off a national general-interest daily and make it free."
