Gordon Crovitz, the publisher of the WSJ, appeared at the Future of Business Media conference and did a reasonably good job of mumbling noncommitally about Dow Jones's future within News Corp: he clearly hasn't yet signed on to the Rupert Murdoch school of forthright public commentary.

That said, his analysis did seem a bit naive: I suspect that he lacks Murdoch's boldness of vision. He still has the old Dow Jones point of view, where Dow Jones Newswires will break a public story (an earnings report, say), the website will then move it along, and finally the Wall Street Journal comes along the following morning and adds value, analysis and a broader perspective to the story.