Dow Jones Introduces Premium News Site: The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition
21 Outubro 2009 - 9:05AM
PR Newswire (US)
Combines Dow Jones Factiva with The Wall Street Journal Online to
Deliver Unmatched Comprehensive Business News and Information NEW
YORK, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Jones & Company today
announced plans to launch The Wall Street Journal Professional
Edition, a premium business news service that delivers customized
news feeds and alerts directly to subscribers' desktops and mobile
devices. The service offers news scoops, the latest in
industry-specific breaking news and immediate analysis of
customers' industry sectors from Dow Jones Newswires, The Wall
Street Journal and the rich collection of 17,000 global business
and news sources of Dow Jones Factiva. Available in a simple,
personalized user interface, The Wall Street Professional Edition
combines award-winning news and analysis from Dow Jones and The
Wall Street Journal with Dow Jones Factiva's powerful search,
alerting and monitoring features and content archive, providing an
unmatched resource for business subscribers to stay on top of the
day's news while also monitoring focused and personalized in-depth
news and information about the industries affecting their business.
Dow Jones is making The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition
available exclusively to enterprise customers in November with
broader availability scheduled for January 2010. "This really is a
new model for the delivery of high-quality business news for a
sophisticated audience. We are not imprisoned by a terminal and are
thus able to produce a more contemporary Web-based news feed
tailored to a sector, a company or an asset class. Readers will be
able to create a virtual newswire and alert system that suits their
specific business needs," said Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of
Dow Jones & Company and managing editor of The Wall Street
Journal. "It gives users a digital news library along with the
world's premier newspaper and newswire. No other business news
organization in the world has the same range of products or depth
of reader-ready knowledge." Key features of The Wall Street Journal
Professional Edition include: -- Aggregated news and information
from more than 17,000 global sources -- a significant portion of
which are not available on the public Web -- along with The Wall
Street Journal, supported by more than 2,000 Dow Jones journalists
in 84 bureaus worldwide -- Factiva SmartSearch(TM), which provides
a one-year archive of Factiva's global business sources and a
two-year archive of wsj.com content, filtered and sorted to reveal
the best, highest-value results -- Search results that are
instantly analyzed to uncover issues, industries, companies, people
and ideas buried beneath the headlines and displayed in
know-at-a-glance graphical format -- More than 30 industry-specific
pages, managed by a team of Dow Jones editors to deliver the most
current insight and identify emerging trends -- Six key industry
sections that are continuously managed by Wall Street Journal
editors who select news and information from across Factiva's vast
archive: Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Energy, Media &
Marketing, Telecommunications and Technology -- Custom News that
allows users to personalize their own home page to quickly surface
the news they want on issues, companies, industries or
editor-chosen "deep dives" -- User-defined alerts to deliver the
latest news and information when and how it is needed "We've
designed The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition to deliver
information without the overload," said Clare Hart, executive vice
president, Dow Jones & Company, and president, Dow Jones
Enterprise Media Group. "By harnessing the power of Dow Jones
Factiva and combining it with the unmatched news and analysis from
wsj.com, business professionals get the focused news and content
they need and want in a way that allows them to quickly identify
what is meaningful or important to them. If they want more detail
or a broader view, they can dig deeper to gain additional insight;
all of this adds up to tremendous competitive advantage to the
business professional who needs quick, easy access to information
about industries, companies, people and issues." More information
is available at
http://www.dowjones.com/product-wsj-prof-edition.asp . ABOUT DOW
JONES & COMPANY Dow Jones & Company
(http://www.dowjones.com/) is a News Corporation company (NASDAQ:
NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; http://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, Dow Jones
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. DATASOURCE: Dow Jones & Company
CONTACT: Shannon Sullivan, +1-609-627-2312, ; or Ashley Huston,
+1-212-416-2025, , both of Dow Jones & Company Web Site:
http://www.dowjones.com/
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