Dow Jones Associate General Counsel Joins Dating App Company

Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, has lost its associate general counsel, Norman Petty, for a job with dating app operator The Meet Group.

Petty joined the New Hope, Penn., company as general counsel on March 15 after 25 years with Dow, part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

“Both companies have a real focus on trust,” Petty said in an interview. “At Dow Jones, it was trust in the news product, whereas with The Meet Group, it’s trusting the environment where people can meet and interact and making sure that it’s a safe place.”

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