Dow Jones & Company, Inc. is owned by News Corporation.
Dow Jones & Company is a subsidiary of News Corporation. Following protracted and heated negotiations lasting half a year, Rupert Murdoch acquired the company at the end of 2007. Prior to the sale, the Bancroft family held a majority stake in Dow Jones and initially opposed the $5 billion offer from News Corporation. As many as 20 members of the Bancroft family had shares to vote, and they ultimately decided to take the money and run.
Dow Jones is an American publishing and financial information firm, founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser.
Its flagship publication, The Wall Street Journal, is a daily newspaper covering U.S. and international business and financial news and issues. It began publishing on July 8, 1889. Sister publications of the Journal include Barron's, a weekly overview of the world economy and markets; the monthly journal Far Eastern Economic Review; and the consumer magazine SmartMoney, published in conjunction with the Hearst Corporation.
Dow Jones also owns Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., which publishes community newspapers in the U.S., and Dow Jones Electronic Publishing, which produces web sites. The company operates CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com; OpinionJournal.com, with featured content from the Wall Street Journal's politically conservative editorial pages; business portals StartupJournal.com and RealEstateJournal.com; and Factiva, a news and business information service (similar to LexisNexis), owned jointly with Reuters.
In January 2005, Dow Jones purchased CBS MarketWatch in a transaction valued at $528 Million. MarketWatch is a popular financial website among individual investors.
Before the sale to News Corporation, Dow Jones was like The New York Times Company and The Washington Post Company -- publicly traded but privately controlled. The Bancroft family owned 30% of Dow Jones shares and 62% of its voting rights.
In 2004 Dow Jones had total revenues of $1.67 billion, about half of which were contributed by the Wall Street Journal.
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| Web Site: | www.dowjones.com |
| Telephone: | 212.416.2000 |
| Address: | 1 World Financial Center
200 Liberty Street
New York NY 10281
USA |
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CareerJournal.com
CollegeJournal.com
Dow Jones Indexes
Dow Jones Information Services
Dow Jones Newswires
Dow Jones Reprint and Permission Services
OpinionJournal.com
RealEstateJournal.com
StartupJournal.com
Wall Street Journal Radio Network
Strategic Alliances :
Factiva (Reuters),
CNBC (NBC Universal),
SmartMoney (Hearst Corporation),
Vedomosti (Pearson Plc. and Independant Media),
Stoxx Ltd.(Deutsche Boerse AG and SWX Group)
Comments about Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:45am on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 |
Dow Jones Investment Banker's Columnists Predict Big Names in Household Products, Appliances and Retail
-- Church & Dwight, TiVo seen as acquisition targets, it was announced on February 8, 2011:
"Forecasting a revitalized merger and acquisition market, the editorial team at Dow Jones Investment Banker is predicting with "high conviction" 12 major deals and capital-raising actions in 2011. Household products manufacturer, Church & Dwight and DVR innovator, TiVo are likely acquisition targets, according to Dow Jones Investment Banker's columnists. They have also issued 11 "provocative" predictions including the sale of GE's appliance business to China-based Haier and the sale of part of its Lloyds Banking Group by the British government.
"With organic revenue growth continuing to present challenges, strong corporate balance sheets and cooperative debt markets we expect to see a resurgence of merger and acquisition activity in 2011," Arindam Nag, deputy managing editor for Dow Jones Investment Banker said. "Many long-dormant corners of the capital markets are positioned to revive in 2011. A steepening yield curve will prod convertible bond issuance toward old highs. New legislation will jump-start the U.S. covered bond market. Pooled aircraft-backed securities will make a comeback. And strapped municipalities will turn to public-private partnership structures to dig out from under liabilities."
Dow Jones Investment Banker is a flexible solution that offers the deep intelligence edge every banker needs to provide advice, generate ideas and connect to clients. The product's dedicated investment banking editorial team consists primarily of former bankers, analysts, fund managers and other investment banking industry experts who deliver the best of Dow Jones' news, opinion, research, data visualization and executive connections."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 8:17am on Thursday, December 9, 2010 |
Dow Jones Investment Banker Adds Wall Street Veteran to Editorial Team
-- December 9, 2010 -- Dow Jones today announced the appointment of Peter Gallagher to Dow Jones Investment Banker's dedicated editorial team. Mr. Gallagher joins the New York team as a columnist focusing on the retail, food & beverage, media, and consumer industries.
Dow Jones Investment Banker is a focused news, opinion, research and data visualization product that helps bankers gain a competitive edge in generating deal ideas and connecting with clients.
"With a deep knowledge of investment banking and corporate finance that can only be gained working on Wall Street, Peter Gallagher brings a fresh, insider's perspective to the investment banking editorial team," said Rick Stine, senior editor at Dow Jones Newswires.
Mr. Gallagher will report to Arindam Nag, deputy managing editor of Dow Jones Investment Banker.
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:17am on Thursday, December 2, 2010 |
-- December 2, 2010 -- Alisa Bowen is now general manager of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, the consumer digital business group of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. She was previously senior vice president and head of business operations at Reuters Media.
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Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 10:04am on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
Dow Jones Renews 117K Feet at Durst's 1155 Avenue of the Americas
-- The New York Observer reported on November 29, 2010:
"At street level, 1155 Avenue of the Americas is Thomas Pink, but upstairs it's Don Draper meets Dow Jones. The News Corporation-owned publisher has signed a 117,000-square-foot lease for 10 years for advertising-sales offices on the third and fifth through eighth floors of the Durst Organization's 41-story black granite tower."
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Media Owners editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:34am on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 |
U.S. Economy In Holding Pattern According To Dow Jones Economic Sentiment Indicator
-- November 30, 2010 -- Following three months of dramatic ups and downs, the Dow Jones Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) landed at 43.9 in November, even with October's figure.
"The ESI signals that the economy is in a holding pattern," Dow Jones Newswires "Money Talks" Columnist Alen Mattich said. "If it had risen sharply, confirming October's strong rise, then it would have been a very positive sign. Instead we are seeing an economy still poised between modest growth and a slipping back."
The ESI is determined by in-depth analysis of national news coverage across 15 daily newspapers in the U.S.
Positive news in November included articles charting fewer troubled loans on banks' books, increased interest in the expensive pastime of kiteboarding and Korean automaker Kia hiring 1,000 workers in West Point, Ga. Articles covering the debate on the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts were generally positive in tone though those covering "Black Friday" were generally negative as they focused on saving money in the weak economy.
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Mondo Times editors Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 8:56am on Monday, November 8, 2010 |
New Dow Jones Colocation Center Reduces News Feed Latency in Asia Pacific
-- November 7, 2010 -- Dow Jones & Company opened its first colocation center in the Asia Pacific region to speed the delivery of its structured data originating from the region. The center, located in Dow Jones's Hong Kong office, will reduce the latency of the Elementized News Feed's economic indicators and corporate news, allowing traders to act on and react to market moving news faster.
"This colocation center further illustrates Dow Jones's commitment to the region," said Christine Brendle, managing director of Dow Jones Asia Pacific. "We have strengthened our news-gathering force locally and now are investing in the technology our clients need to best leverage that news in their trading decisions and executions."
"The new colocation center in Hong Kong closes the latency gap between the east and west," said Rob Passarella, a vice president at Dow Jones. "It is an essential step in accelerating execution for traders worldwide who use Dow Jones data that originate from the Asia Pacific region. The center also helps lay the groundwork for the algorithmic-trading market in Asia to grow and compete with other markets around the world."
The Hong Kong center joins Dow Jones's existing colocation centers in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and London.
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Bob Boyd East Stroudsburg, PA USA | Posted at 3:05pm on Friday, January 29, 2010 |
The Pocono Record needs investigated because their opinions and record of giving biased opportunity for responses such as Letter to Editors. The editor is not"user friendly" and their operations leave a lot to be desired. They can't be giving you a good name! I live on Fox news and am a Regan Republican that is Bible believing and God fearing. Every time I submit a letter there is always a problem answered by lies! A change of leadership is needed. If not a boycott will be forthcoming!
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Eric Kallgren Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:06pm on Friday, May 15, 2009 |
Some background about Les Hinton, the CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, from the Dow Jones web site:
"Les Hinton is the chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Company. Reporting to the chairman of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, Mr. Hinton directly or indirectly manages all of Dow Jones' business units and staff departments.
Prior to his appointment as Dow Jones CEO in December 2007, Mr. Hinton served for 12 years as executive chairman of News International, the U.K. arm of News Corp. and that country's largest publisher of national newspapers. News International's publications include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The News of the World, The Times Literary Supplement, and thelondonpaper, the metropolitan London free newspaper.
Earlier, Mr. Hinton worked in the U.S. for 20 years, first as correspondent for the company's newspapers in the U.K. and Australia and later in a series of senior management positions in News Corp's publishing and television divisions. He was president and chief executive of News America Publishing, responsible for the company's U.S. publishing operations, and chairman and chief executive of Fox Television Stations. Mr. Hinton became a U.S. citizen in 1986."
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RJ Miller | Posted at 12:51pm on Thursday, February 21, 2008 |
Rich Zannino is no longer CEO
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