Dow Jones Executive Sees Significant Growth for Publishers in New Media.PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1996--Dorothea Coccoli Palsho, president of 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 Business Information Services See Information Systems. told an audience recently that publishing, like many other industries, is experiencing a rapid rate of change. "Publishers will prosper in this fast-changing world by mastering new skills for designing and publishing digital publications that are compelling, easy to access, easy to use and fairly priced," said Ms. Coccoli Palsho. Speaking at a CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. panel discussion at the second annual SIMBA Online Conference held in Vienna Va., Ms. Coccoli Palsho said, "The information explosion and the World Wide Web are in their infancy infancy, stage of human development lasting from birth to approximately two years of age. The hallmarks of infancy are physical growth, motor development, vocal development, and cognitive and social development. , but hold great opportunity and promise for publishers of all sizes. New technologies and distribution platforms provide the tools for publishers to broaden the markets they serve and the products they publish." Addressing questions from the SIMBA audience about information delivery platforms including private and public internets, Ms.Coccoli Palsho said, "The onus is on us as electronic publishers to provide valuable, relevant content and deliver that content in ways that best serve that guarantee specified customer needs time, that may require proprietary services levels of security and reliability, but. For some markets, for some increasingly the public and private internets are proving to be the distribution platform of choice." To illustrate her point, Ms. Coccoli Palsho described how Dow Jones serves individual customer needs by providing relevant content using a variety of delivery platforms. For example, businesspeople who need to stay abreast of current news subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; The Wall Street Journal(R) Interactive Edition on the World Wide Web. The Interactive Edition, launched this spring, has quickly established itself as the leading source of business news and information on the World Wide Web. It features continuously updated coverage of the full spectrum of business news both in the U.S. and abroad prepared by a dedicated news staff in The Wall Street Journal New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of newsroom. Others with a deeper need for industry news about competitors and their own customers check a variety of reputable rep·u·ta·ble adj. Having a good reputation; honorable. rep  u·ta·bil sources, including the
leading U.S. newspapers using DowVision(R), the most popular,
direct-to-the-desktop, custom news service with delivery via corporate
E-mail, groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. and Intranet and Internet InternetPublicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the technology. Still others, Ms. Coccoli Palsho told the SIMBA audience, conduct deep research on Dow Jones News/Retrieval(R), the premier online source of business news and financial information. These businesspeople, including information professionals, need the resources of a comprehensive business library to get fast answers to tough business questions delivered with the speed characteristic of a proprietary software interface, and the reliability for which Dow Jones is known. The appearance at the SIMBA Online Conference by Ms. Coccoli Palsho follows the successful launches this past Spring of The Wall Street Journal(R) Interactive Edition, which provides readers with access to more than 9,000 in-depth background reports on companies, a historical archive, and convenient personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. tools. It is located on the Web at http://wsj.com; and the completely new version of Dow Jones News/Retrieval(R) with more content, an easy-to-use interface and predictable pricing. A Dow Jones employee since 1977, Ms. Coccoli Palsho has held a variety of executive positions, including circulation marketing director and, later, vice president of circulation for The Wall Street Journal(R) and Barron's(R) magazine. In 1992 she was named vice president, Information Services, and became president of Dow Jones Business Information Services in 1995. Dow Jones Business Information Services, the electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. arm of Dow Jones & Company, Inc., provides business and financial news and information products including The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition on the World Wide Web and Dow Jones News/Retrieval to corporations, consumers and private investors through a variety of electronic media: computer, telephone, facsimile and radio. Dow Jones also publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international editions; Barron's magazine Barron's magazine is an American weekly newspaper covering U.S. financial information, market developments, and relevant statistics. Each issue provides a wrap-up of the previous week's market activity, news reports, and an outlook on the week to come. and other periodicals; electronic information services, including those of Dow Jones Telerate and Dow Jones Financial News Services; and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones also produces television programming internationally and video news delivered to desktop computers. -0- More information on Dow Jones Business Information Services and its products can be found at http://www.bis Second version. It means twice in Old Latin, or encore in French. Ter means three. For example, V.27bis and V.27ter are the second and third versions of the V.27 standard. .dowjones.com. -0- The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, Dow Jones News/Retrieval, Barron's, Telerate and Dow Jones News Service are marks of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All other products mentioned are the marks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Dow Jones, Princeton Dara Schechter, 609/520-4668 dara.schechter@cor.dowjones.com http://www.dowjones.com |
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