Ideally, you'd want the most stringent wall between the third-party owner with an interest in the player and the agent who represents that player and influences his decisions.

WSJ: Third-Party Ownership: How to Stud a Soccer Player

But he has written down the value of Dow Jones, owner of the Wall Street Journal - and he lost a fortune on the sale of MySpace, one of the original social networks.

BBC: Murdoch's biggest setback?

The Financial Times (part-owner of The Economist) and the Wall Street Journal have leading positions in business and financial news, and successful pay-walls.

ECONOMIST: Newspapers

Looking beyond Microsoft, which does make profits, to the hordes of new Internet companies that do not, Wall Street is rewarding companies (and enriching their owner-managers) almost entirely on the basis of the firms' prospects for acquiring a big share of the market (which market, exactly, remains to be seen).

ECONOMIST: Preying on theory

Beneath the wall of signed photos of Marines, not movie stars, owner Jerry Amato says, post-Katrina, he's still short on staff.

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