OLD Media Moves

Dow Jones news service to be offered on Symphony

September 13, 2015

Posted by Chris Roush

DOWJONES_logo_Full-500 compressedSymphony, the messaging tool backed by some of Wall Street’s biggest banks, has struck a deal with Dow Jones to offer news content in its service, reports Matthew Garrahan of the Financial Times.

Garrahan writes, “The content deal — likely to be unveiled this week — pits Dow Jones, part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, against Michael Bloomberg’s eponymous company, the world’s largest financial information group.

“All of Dow Jones’s newswire articles — including journalism produced by the Wall Street Journal newspaper and its Factiva archive — will be available on Symphony’s nascent service, according to people familiar with the situation. Dow Jones and Symphony declined to comment.

Symphony has support from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street banks. It was born out of the 2013 snooping scandal, when it emerged that Bloomberg News reporters had used the company’s eponymous terminals to spy on bankers, monitoring when they had last logged-on to the service. Bloomberg apologised and reviewed its practices.”

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