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"There have been no conversations with anyone or either
organization about an acquisition," spokesman Ty Trippet said in
the tweet, which was retweeted by billionaire owner Michael
Bloomberg.
News website Axios reported on Friday that Bloomberg was
interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent
company Dow Jones from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, or the
Washington Post from Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, citing a source
familiar with Bloomberg's thinking.
On Friday, citing sources, Reuters reported Michael Bloomberg
had expressed a desire to own a big-name newspaper over the
years but had not reached out to Murdoch to discuss a possible
purchase of Dow Jones and its flagship paper the Journal.
A spokesperson for the Washington Post, which Bezos bought in
2013 for $250 million, said on Friday it was not for sale.
Antitrust experts agreed the merger of Bloomberg and Dow Jones
business news divisions would draw the scrutiny of U.S.
regulators, especially as the Biden administration has taken a
more muscular approach to enforcing antitrust laws.
Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters Corp, competes with Dow Jones
and Bloomberg News, a unit of Bloomberg L.P., a provider of
financial news.
(Reporting by Lavanya Ahire in Bengaluru; Additional reporting
by Ira Iosebashvili; Editing by Diane Craft)
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