Mediagazer: Murdoch Isn't the First to Consider Renaming The Wall Street Journal (Christine Haughney/Media Decoder)

10:40 PM ET, July 5, 2012

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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Murdoch Isn't the First to Consider Renaming The Wall Street Journal — When Rupert Murdoch let it be known in an interview last week that he was thinking of giving The Wall Street Journal a new, streamlined name — WSJ — he was joining a discussion within the newspaper that dates back at least to the end of World War II.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

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Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:

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