Almar Latour is sitting in a corner in the distinctive honeycomb-inspired lobby of the Marker Hotel in Dublin’s docklands. The day before, Latour, the chief executive of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, gave a talk at the Dublin Tech Summit.  After that, he visited the office of Storyful, the video and social media verification media business that has just come under his remit – the Irish-founded business was previously part of parent company News Corp.  From our seats in the Marker, we can see Google’s campus on Barrow Street stretching from the historic Boland’s Mills to the…

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