Former Congresswoman Jennifer Dunn, R-Bellevue, is on the new committee designed to protect the editorial integrity of the Wall Street Journal under new owner Rupert Murdoch. The editorial board will insulate the paper from undue control by Murdoch and have the power to hire and fire two top editors at the paper.

It appears Dunn is the one person on the board with a political, not media, background. According to the Wall Street Journal:

The committee members are slated to be Louis D. Boccardi, retired CEO of the Associated Press; Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab; Jack Fuller, former president of Tribune Publishing; Jennifer Blackburn Dunn, a former congresswoman from Washington state; and Thomas Bray, the former editorial-page editor of the Detroit News and a writer for OpinionJournal.com. Mr. Bray will be chairman.