At the World Newspaper Congress here in Hyderabad this afternoon, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) CEO Les Hinton came out swinging against the world in general, as is the wont of every News Corp exec these days. More specifically, against “geeks bearing gifts”, “false gospel of the Web” and “out &…

Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) is closing the historic Far Eastern Economic Review in December, already a shell of itself, saying the “continued losses in advertising revenue and readers are now unsustainable.” The company introduced the news with the statement starting this fall, it “will focus on its core publications to…

As part of its continuing expansion of services focussed on the Indian market, The Wall Street Journal has hired Durga Raghunath, managing editor of Livemint.com. She will join WSJ as editor, mobile services and digital product development, India. Raghunath confirmed the development. She will report to Paul Beckett, WSJ’s India…