Dow Jones signs Polymarket deal for prediction data
Polymarket will supply Dow Jones & Co. publications with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges and media organizations that are putting prediction markets in front of a broader audience, reports Katherine Doherty of Bloomberg News. Doherty reports, “Dow Jones, a division of the Murdoch family’s News Corp., will […]
Dow Jones CEO Latour: From intern to running the company
LinkedIn editor at large Andrew Murfett profiled Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour, who has risen from a Wall Street Journal intern to running the company. Murfett writes, “Latour would steadily climb the ranks at Dow Jones, taking on roles such as Eastern European and Nordic foreign correspondent, tech reporter, desk editing roles and, eventually, senior […]
Dow Jones hires Havens as chief growth officer
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com, has hired M. Scott Havens as its chief growth officer, reports Mark Stenberg of Adweek. He will start in January. He most recently was at the New York Mets as president of business operations. Before that, he was CEO of Bloomberg Media. Havens joined Bloomberg Media in […]
Dow Jones reports rise in first quarter revenue, earnings
nesDow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch.com and Investor’s Business Daily, reported a first-quarter revenue increase of 6 percent and an earnings increase of 10 percent, due to higher circulation and subscription business. Revenue rose to $586 million from $552 million, and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization […]
Dow Jones Special Committee taps new member
The Dow Jones Special Committee, established as part of the acquisition of Dow Jones & Co. by News Corp. in late 2007, has elected John F. Tefft to succeed Anne W. Patterson, who has retired from the committee after seven years of service. Tefft will serve out Patterson’s term ending Dec. 31, 2027, at which […]
Economist, FT and Dow Jones licensing content for private LLMs
The Economist, the Financial Times and Dow Jones & Co. are licensing their content to private large language models, reports Jessica Davies of Digiday. Davies reports, “The Economist is among those to start licensing its content this way — having opened its API to corporate clients with their own data ring-fenced LLMs this August. “The Financial Times […]
How the Dow Jones content strategy varies by publication
Kira Willner, senior vice president of product and business strategy, wealth and investing at Dow Jones & Co., writes on the International News Media Association website about how the company’s strategy varies by publication. Willner writes, “MarketWatch serves as the perfect entry point to Dow Jones’s broader wealth and investing portfolio, attracting ambitious audiences with accessible, […]
Dow Jones receives $1.28 million for WSJ copyright violation
Dow Jones & Co. has received a $1.28 million settlement to resolve claims that a U.S.-based logistics company unlawfully reproduced and distributed 378 full-text articles from The Wall Street Journal on its corporate website without authorization. This settlement, finalized in September 2025,continues Dow Jones’s track record of successful enforcement actions. “Dow Jones is deeply committed to […]
News Corp CEO Thomson’s pay totals $20.6 million
Robert Thomson, the chief executive officer at News Corp., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch.com and Investor’s Business Daily received $20.6 million in total compensation in its most recent fiscal year. That’s slightly higher than the $20.3 million in total compensation that he received in the fiscal 2024 years, according to the […]
Why WSJ’s parent is suing — and working with — AI companies
Allison Schiff of AdExchanger spoke with Josh Stinchcomb, the chief revenue officer of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, about its relationships with artificial intelligence companies. Schiff writes, “‘We have a licensing deal with OpenAI and we’re suing Perplexity, so I think it’s pretty clear what our general position is […]
