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Barron's to lay off employees next week, editor reveals in accidental email
Barron's is planning to announce lay-offs next week, editor Ed Finn wrote in an email that he accidentally sent to the entire Wall Street Journal newsroom on Friday. On Friday morning, Journal editor Gerard Baker emailed Journal employees to announce a round of newsroom buy-outs. Finn — the president and editor of Barron's, which is owned by Journal parent company Dow Jones — apparently meant to forward Baker's email to Dow Jones Media Group publisher Almar Latour and two other company executives, in order to discuss what impact the Journal buy-outs might have on forthcoming layoffs (which had not yet been ... (full story)