The Media Baron Who Loves Print.

Rupert Murdoch had an office built for him at The Wall Street Journal within days of buying it 14 months ago, and he has made ample use of it -- ordering up a wave of changes in the once-staid paper's content and culture, from the addition of a weekly sports page to general news displacing financial news on the front page to the thinning of its layers of editing. But Mr. Murdoch, as much old-fashioned press baron as 21st century multimedia mogul, faces a depressing reality: his lifelong fondness for newspapers has become a significant drag on the fortunes of his company, the News Corporation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]