You Got Mail, the Bad Kind at the Dow Jones

Executives at News Corp's (NWSA) Dow Jones & Co headquarters received envelopes containing white powder and another 10 were discovered in the mail room, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.

The building contains Dow Jones as well as its Wall Street Journal daily business newspaper. The New York Police Department and New York Fire Department's Hazmat teams are at the building, spokesman Robert Christie said.

The 11th floor is where News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch and Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thomson have offices. Thomson was not in the building at the time. Murdoch's whereabouts are unknown.

Christie declined to say which executives got the envelopes. The 11th floor was evacuated, he said.

The New York Police Department found three envelopes on the 11th floor of the building's headquarters, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. Both contained white powder.

Anthrax maybe?  Not the band, the bad stuff.

"We have had many of these in the last year and they typically are talcum powder or cornstarch," he said.

The building is on Liberty Street in lower Manhattan, close to the Ground Zero site where the World Trade Center stood before it was attacked and destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001.

SOURCE: http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUKN214772032009...