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Jul 9, 2008

Fox Business Adds Wall Street Journal Columnist to Schedule

The Wall Street Journal's personal technology columnist Walt Mossberg will soon be a regular contributor to The Fox Business Network despite the paper's contract with CNBC.
According to an article in The New York Times, News Corporation announced the arrangement on Tuesday, making Mossberg, who writes two columns for The Journal, the most prominent person from the newspaper to contribute regularly to the cable channel.
This is in the face of a 15-year contract, which concludes in 2012, between CNBC and the paper. The Time's article quotes Kevin Magee, an executive vice president at Fox News, as saying, “As long as we stay away from branded, regularly scheduled segments of business news, we’re safe. Breaking news is fine and nonbusiness news is fine.”

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