Its flagship publication, The Wall Street Journal, is a daily newspaper in print and online covering business, financial national and international news and issues around the globe. It began publishing on July 8, 1889. There are 12 versions of the Journal in nine languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Malay, Turkish and Korean. The Journal has won 35 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism.
Other consumer-oriented publications of Dow Jones include Barron's Magazine, a weekly overview of the world economy and markets, MarketWatch, an online financial news site, and Investor's Business Daily, a newspaper and website covering the stock market, international business, finance and economics. Financial News provides news on investment banking, securities, and asset management. BigCharts, provided by MarketWatch's Virtual Stock Exchange Games, includes stock charts, screeners, interactive charting, and research tools. Professor Journal is a "Journal" in education program for professors to integrate into curriculum.
In 2017, Dow Jones launched Moneyish, a lifestyle and personal finance website aimed at millennial readers.
Dow Jones also published Heat Street, an online news and opinion website launched in February 2016 that was later folded into MarketWatch.
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The monthly journal Far Eastern Economic Review closed in September 2009.
Enterprise media
Dow Jones serves corporate markets and financial markets clients with financial news and information products and services. Dow Jones owns more than 20 products that combine content and technology to help drive decisions, which include:
Dow Jones Newswires;
Dow Jones Factiva, a database that provides a curated basis for making decisions through search results, alerts, newsletters, and charts about companies, topics, and people;
Dow Jones FX Select, delivers real-time, breaking global FX news, expert trend analysis and in-depth policy commentary in 13 languages;
Dow Jones VentureSource, provides data on venture-backed companies and helps find deal and partnership opportunities, perform comprehensive due diligence and examine trends in venture capital investment, fund-raising and liquidity;
Private Equity Analyst, timely news and critical analysis of private equity and venture capital activity, offering insight and breaking news on developments in fund-raising, investment, deal finance, liquidity, returns, and executive moves;
Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, on risk management, regulatory compliance or corporate governance content for Anti-Corruption, Anti-Money Laundering, and Payments and Sanctions.
Dow Jones Newswires
Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Thomson Reuters. The company reports more than 600,000 subscribers – including brokers, traders, analysts, world leaders, and finance officials and fund managers – as of July 2011.
Ventures
In 2009 Dow Jones Ventures launched FINS.com, a standalone resource for financial professionals with information about finance careers and the finance industry. In 2012, the site was acquired by Dice.com.
In 2017, Dow Jones announced the beta launch of DNA (Data, News and Analytics), a platform designed to allow businesses to integrate the company's news and data into their own applications.
Broadcasting
In broadcasting, Dow Jones provides news content to CNBC in the U.S. It produced two shows for commercial radio, The Wall Street Journal Report on the Wall Street Journal Radio Network and The Dow Jones Report. The network was shut down in 2014.
Dow Jones also launched WSJ Live an interactive video website that provides live and on demand videos from The Wall Street Journal Video Network. Programs included "News Hub", "MoneyBeat", and "Lunch Break" among others. WSJ Live was shut down in 2017.
Indices
In February 2010, Dow Jones sold a 90% stake in its Index business for $607.5 million to Chicago-based CME Group, which owns the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. A few of the most widely used included:
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA, "Dow 30", or often simply "The Dow")
Dow Jones Transportation Average
Dow Jones Utility Average
Dow Jones Composite Average
The Global Dow
Dow Jones Global Titans 50 Index
Dow Jones Total Stock Market Index
Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Indexes
Dow Jones Target Date Indexes
In July 2012, Dow Jones & Company and CME Group contributed the Dow Jones Indices to the formation of the S&P Dow Jones Indices joint venture, with McGraw–Hill's Standard and Poor's (S&P) subsidiary holding 73.0%, the CME Group holding 24.4%, and Dow Jones & Company holding an indirect 2.6% ownership interest in the joint venture.
In April 2013, CME Group purchased the Dow Jones & Company interest in the S&P Dow Jones Indices joint venture for $80.0 million, increasing CME Group's interest to 27.0% and removing Dow Jones & Company from all involvement with its namesake indices.
NewsPicks USA
In March 2017, Dow Jones and NewsPicks Inc., a Japanese firm that develops and operates a business news platform of the same name, established a joint venture called NewsPicks USA, LLC. The joint venture is headed by CEO Ken Breen, who is currently the Senior Vice President, Commercial, for the Dow Jones Media Group, together with Chairman Yusuke Umeda, who is also the Director of NewsPicks Inc.
The joint venture launched the English version of the NewsPicks platform for the US market on November 13, 2017. Similar to the original Japanese edition, the US edition of NewsPicks combines business news from sources like The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Reuters with social networking features, such as comments on news articles from top-ranked business professionals from around the world ("ProPickers"). The platform currently has a smartphone app for the iPhone with plans for release on Android in the future.
The venture was dissolved in October 2018 with the Japanese parent company retaining full ownership.
