Corporate Profile for Dow Jones & Company, dated Oct. 16, 1998.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0-
Published Date: Oct. 16, 1998
Company Name: Dow Jones & Company
Address: 200 Liberty Street
New York, N.Y. 10281
Main Telephone
Number: 212/416-2000
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.dowjones.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Peter Kann
Chief Financial
Officer: Jerome Bailey
Investor Relations
Contact: Valerie Gerard
Business number: 212/416-2687
Public Relations
Contact: Richard Tofel
Business number: 212/416-2951
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: NYSE:DJ
Industry: Publishing
Company description: Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance & Company publishes the world's most vital business and financial news and information. Since 1882, the Dow Jones name has been synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as accuracy, integrity and trust. Our flagship publication, The Wall Street Journal, is the global newspaper of business. Dow Jones also publishes The Asian Wall Street Journal; The Wall Street Journal Europe; The Wall Street Journal Special Editions, a collection of Journal pages, in local language, printed in 34 leading newspapers around the world; Barron's; the Far Eastern Economic Review; the National Business Employment Weekly; The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition; and Ottaway Newspapers. Dow Jones jointly publishes SmartMoney with Hearst Corp. and owns 50% of AmericaEconomia, Latin America's business and finance magazine. Dow (Direct OverWrite) See magneto-optic disk. Jones' position as the pre-eminent pre·em·i·nent or pre-em·i·nent adj. Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding. See Synonyms at dominant, noted. [Middle English, from Latin prae publisher of business and financial news and information extends well beyond the printed page. The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition (http://wsj.com) is the Web's largest paid circulation subscription site, with more than 250,000 paid subscribers. Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July excels in real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. news, while Dow Jones Interactive provides access to news and information from more than 6,000 sources. Dow Jones Indexes helps investors track the world's markets. Dow Jones is co-owner of the CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. television operations in Asia and Europe, and provides news content to CNBC in the U.S. |
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