WSJ parent reports rise in revenue, profit for quarter
Dow Jones, the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch.com and Investor’s Business Daily, saw its second quarter revenue and and profits increase due to circulation and advertising gains. Revenue overall increased 8% year-over-year to $648 million, with 82% of total revenue now coming from digital. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for […]
Dow Jones strikes deal with AI company
Symbolic.ai, a startup that provides newsrooms and communications professionals with an artificial intelligence platform, announced a major new partnership with News Corp., the conglomerate behind Dow Jones, which includes The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and Dow Jones Newswires, reports Ben Sherry of Inc. Sherry writes, “Wenig says that he initially reached out to News Corp roughly […]
Dow Jones hires Bloomberg Tax president Fitzpatrick
Almar Latour, CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following: Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that Lisa Fitzpatrick is appointed as general manager, Industries, starting today. Lisa will focus on growing our products and solutions for Dow Jones enterprise customers and will be the commercial leader of Wall Street […]
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, […]
