Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

Dow Jones & Company, Inc. is owned by News Corporation.

Les Hinton is the CEO of Dow Jones & Company, Inc..

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.

Contact Information

Web Site:	www.dowjones.com
Telephone:	212.416.2000
Address:	1 World Financial Center 200 Liberty Street New York NY 10281 USA

Media Subsidiaries

Dow Jones Local Media Group

National Media Properties

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Barron's

Far Eastern Economic Review Magazine

MarketWatch

Venture Reporter Magazine

Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal Asia

WSJ Magazine

Local Media Properties

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In New York:	Wall Street Journal
In China:	Wall Street Journal Asia

Other Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Properties

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.

Comments to date: 3. The most recent comments are below.


Bob Boyd East Stroudsburg, PA USA	Posted at 3:05pm on Friday, January 29th, 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!


Eric Kallgren Boulder, Colorado USA	Posted at 11:06pm on Friday, May 15th, 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."


RJ Miller	Posted at 12:51pm on Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Rich Zannino is no longer CEO

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