Dow Jones & Company, Inc. provides global business and financial news, information, and insight through newspapers, newswires, magazines, the Internet, indexes, television, and radio. It operates through three segments: Consumer Media, Enterprise Media, and Local Media. The Consumer Media segment publishes domestic and international print and online editions of the Wall Street Journal daily newspaper that offer business and financial information content; and print and online editions of Barron’s, a business and financial weekly magazine for financial professionals and individual investors. This segment also operates MarketWatch.com and BigCharts.com Web sites that provide market news and information. The Enterprise Media segment provides business and financial information content to businesses and financial professionals. It offers global business content, research products, and services in the finance, corporate, professional services, and government sectors; and business and financial news on the United States and Canadian companies and markets for brokerage firms, banks, investment companies, and other businesses. This segment also provides business news and information on English-language terminals, which facilitate users with information on equity, fixed income, foreign exchange, commodities, and energy markets. In addition, it offers newswires, conferences, and databases, as well as licenses news, data, investment tools, and other online applications. Further, this segment licenses Dow Jones Industrial Averages, as well as other indexes as the basis for trading options, futures, unit trusts, annuities, exchange traded funds, mutual funds, derivatives, and structured products. The Local Media segment publishes daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, and ‘shoppers’ in the United States. Dow Jones & Company has strategic alliances with SmartMoney; Vedomosti; STOXX, Ltd.; and Adicio, Inc. The company was founded in 1882 and is based in New York, New York. As of December 13, 2007, Dow Jones & Co. Inc. is a subsidiary of News Corp. (NYSE:NWS.A).
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