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WSJ to stop carrying Breakingviews column

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Fri Jun 6, 2008 9:31am EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's Wall Street Journal is planning to stop carrying a daily opinion column provided by Breakingviews.com, Hugo Dixon, the founder of the financial news website, said on Friday.

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Dixon told Reuters that the Journal no longer wishes to purchase third-party content and is seeking to buy its way out of a contract that was scheduled to run through 2009.

"They're seeking to buy us out of our contract," Dixon said by phone.

He also said Breakingviews has received expressions of interest to buy the company but declined to give more details.

(Reporting by Robert MacMillan; editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
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