Rupert Murdoch's A Phone Callin' Man

Rupert Murdoch personally called at least three Wall Street Journal reporters to convince them to stay at the paper. According to the Los Angeles Times, Murdoch called Tara Parker-Pope, Kate Kelly and Henny Senders while on his vacation his Mediterranean yacht. Sender has been offered a post at the Financial Times and both Parker-Pope and Kelly are in talks with the New York Times.

The state of the reporters: Parker-Pope will be leaving the Journal, Kelly has decided to stay at the post-Murdoch paper and Senders is undecided.

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