Charles Dow
Edward Jones
Charles Bergstresser
| Dow Jones & Company |
Dow Jones & Company is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; www.newscorp.com). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of SmartMoney and 33% of Stoxx Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in the U.S. Since 1882, the Dow Jones name has been synonymous with accuracy, integrity and trust.
Founded by Edward Davis Jones, Charles Henry Dow and Charles Milford Bergstresser, Dow Jones has been the benchmark by which other business- and financial-news organizations measure themselves.
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The cornerstone of Dow Jones is its flagship publication, The Wall Street Journal, which also happens to be the world's leading business publication. The Journal, which was founded in 1889, has a total print circulation of 1.66 million.
But Dow Jones is much more. It is an organization of more than 7,000 full-time employees, dedicated to pursuing excellence in all of our Company's operations. In fact, the people of Dow Jones are at the center of our Virtuous Circle, whose success relies on the hard work and dedication of our employees.
The Company is comprised of four essential segments:
Local Media Group
Coast-to-coast group owned by Dow Jones that publishes eight daily and 14 weekly community newspapers with Internet sites.
For a detailed history of Dow Jones, click here.
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