Dow Jones Investor Network links with Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition; First to provide video & audio financial news on the Internet.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 1996--Dow Jones Investor Network (DJIN), a video news service for financial professionals, announced it is now providing video and audio content for select news stories in the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition's Money and Investing Update on the Internet. The integration of DJIN's video and audio content into the Money and Investing Update on the Internet is an extension of the Internet's ability to allow multimedia objects to relate and link to traditional text and graphics elements of a news story. This is the first step of many planned to enable DJIN to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. the Internet's expanding multimedia capabilities. 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 Investor Network and the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition recently collaborated on the Money and Investing section's Year-End Review of Markets to create a Video Round Table feature (http://update.wsj.com/update/reference/roundt.htm). The Video Round Table contains video and audio versions of interviews DJIN conducted with half a dozen prominent market analysts, including Michael Metz Michael Metz (born June 16, 1964) is a former field hockey player from Germany, who won the silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea for West Germany. of Oppenheimer and Co. and Mary Farrell of PaineWebber Inc., who reflect on 1995 and assess the market's prospects in 1996. Video clips A short video presentation. are in Quick Time and the complete interviews are presented in Real Audio form. "Providing the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition with video and audio content is something that makes sense for Dow Jones as well as its customers," says Martin Schenker, Managing Editor of DJIN. "When DJIN is covering something that the Interactive Edition is writing about, packaging both stories together gives the customer more information and makes Dow Jones' products more competitive." Further examples of Dow Jones Investor Network's video and audio Internet content can be found at DJIN's home page, (http://djin.com), in the Clips and Scripts section. Money & Investing Update is one of the most popular business publications on the World Wide Web, featuring continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. updated business and markets news from a dedicated 24-hour Wall Street Journal newsroom. Customers access The Update at: http://update.wsj.com. For more information on Money & Investing Update call Maggie Landis at (609) 520-4679 or email her at maggie.landis@cor.dowjones.com. Dow Jones Investor Network is a service of Dow Jones Television Group. In addition to DJIN, Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal, 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. , community newspapers, on-line business information services See Information Systems. including Dow Jones Telerate, and television channels such as Asia Business News and European Business News. CONTACT: G.S. Schwartz & Co., 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 Roger Ardanowski/Danielle Della Pella, 212/725-4500 |
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