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A Murdoch Critic Flees Murdoch's 'WSJ'
File this under "Damn, I wish I'd caught this first": Tunku Varadarajan, assistant managing editor of The Wall Street Journal is leaving. Why?
Apparently because he amassed a reputation as the paper's most strident critic of new owner Rupert Murdoch. Media Mob connects the dots.
Ever since News Corp.'s bid for the Journal prevailed, practically every departure from the paper has prompted the question "Do you think it was because of Murdoch?" In most cases, the answer is no. But most people aren't leaving "with the hope of returning to academia -- although he has no job lined up yet."
Did the Murdoch-owned Post know exactly why Varadarajan was fleeing but decline to say out of corporate omerta?
UPDATE: The Post's Keith Kelly says he didn't know, per se: "I had my suspicions but he didn't vent when I called. He just said he started as an academic and was now returning to his roots, blah, blah."
