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Reuters is reporting that the family controlling Dow Jones & Co. Inc.'s voting shares "has accepted" News Corp.'s $5 billion offer to buy the publisher of the Wall Street Journal. "The Bancroft family has accepted," John Prestbo, editor and executive director of Dow Jones Indexes, told reporters on Tuesday in Chicago. Dow Jones "will be part of News Corp," he said.


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