Corporate Profile for Dow Jones & Company, dated May 16, 1996.

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Published date:   May 16, 1996

Company name:     Dow Jones & Company Inc.

Address:          200 Liberty Street
                  New York, N.Y. 10281

Telephone No.:    212/416-2000

Chief Executive
 Officer:         Peter R. Kann

Chief Financial
 Officer:         Kevin J. Roche

Investor Relations
 Contact:         Jan T. Abernathy
 Business number: 212/416-2608

Public Relations
 Contact:         Roger May
 Business number: 212/416-2601

Trading symbol:   DJ

Industry:         Media

Company description: Dow Jones & Company Inc. is a leading publisher of business news, information services and community newspapers. Revenue exceeded $2 billion in 1995.

The Wall Street Journal, the company's flagship publication, is the global business daily. With The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Asian Wall Street Journal, world-wide circulation exceeds 1.9 million. The Wall Street Journal Americas is a daily Spanish-language news section inserted into leading Latin American and European newspapers.

Dow Jones' other publications include Barron's, Far Eastern Economic Review, National Business Employment Weekly, The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition, SmartMoney and American Demographics. Information services include: Dow Jones Telerate, a supplier of real-time market data and news to the international financial community; business newswires, including the Dow Jones News Service; and Business Information Services, which provides business information to corporations, business professionals and private investors through a wide range of electronic and interactive vehicles.

Dow Jones produces radio and international television news programming, including Asia Business News and European Business News, both 24-hour business news channels serving their respective regions. The Dow Jones Investor Network is a video news service delivered to desktop computers. Ottaway Newspapers Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, publishes community newspapers.

CONTACT: Dow Jones & Company Inc.