it just happened

Dow Jones Deal: All Over But the Shoutin’…

… and the payoffs to the Bancrofts’ lawyers and bankers, and the inevitable fury of Christopher Bancroft, and the mass defection of Journal staffers to the FT and the Times and, as at least the folks at Columbia Journalism Review would have you think, the topless chicks on the front of “Money & Investing”:

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But, yeah, it’s basically over.

Bancroft Family Accepts Deal, Executive Says [Reuters via NYT]

Dow Jones Deal: All Over But the Shoutin’…