Dow Jones reaches 3 million subscribers

Dow Jones & Co. chief executive officer William Lewis sent out the following announcement to the staff:

Dear Colleague,
We’ve done it!
We have burst through our 3M membership target. This is an incredible achievement and one that we will celebrate, shout about and rightly revel in over the next few weeks – especially when PwC’s official audit stamp of approval comes through in the summer.
But I wanted to let you know today that – for the past two weeks – we have been a 3M+ membership company. To reiterate: we are now a THREE MILLION PLUS MEMBERSHIP COMPANY.
I am delighted and so hugely appreciative of the hard work, collaboration and intense focus that has led to this historic achievement.
I know that everyone across the business has worked tirelessly to reach this goal. It is also a testament to just how valued our news, insight, data and analysis is by our members and will continue to be as we welcome more and more members.
Well done and thank you.
Best,

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.