Should you be interested in a post-game wrap-up about how Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones deal got done, Andrew Sorkin's got you covered. In the meantime, it's time to meet the five folks who "just signed on for what may be the most thankless task in journalism." Ladies and gentlemen, meet your board of editorial independence.

They are Louis D. Boccardi, former executive editor, and then a president and chief executive, of The Associated Press; Thomas Bray, a columnist and former editorial page editor of The Detroit News; Jennifer Dunn, a former Republican congresswoman from Washington State; Jack Fuller, former president of Tribune Publishing and editorial page editor of The Chicago Tribune; and Nicholas Negroponte, former chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab and a founder of Wired magazine.

As soon as the captain removes the "Fasten Seatbelt Sign," you'll be free to kindly dismiss any notion of their authority in keeping News Corp.'s hands out of the Wall Street Journal's editorial.

[NYT]