Dow Jones Electronic Publishing Now Reaches More Than One Million Paid Computer Screens

Business Wire, Oct 5, 1998

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998--Dow Jones & Company's electronic publishing products are now purchased by more than one million computer users around the world, the Company announced today.

"We're delighted to have extended our reach to so many people who want their news and information delivered electronically, and are willing to pay for quality," Dow Jones Chairman and CEO Peter R. Kann said. Mr. Kann spoke in opening remarks at The Wall Street Journal Technology Summit `98 in New York. "At Dow Jones, we've always believed that if you offer original, accurate and vital information in accessible and useful formats -- whether in print or electronically -- people will pay for it. We're very pleased to see so many individuals and companies investing in the strength of our content."

Dow Jones offers its news electronically world-wide through three principal services: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, the largest paid subscription site on the entire World Wide Web, with more than 250,000 subscribers; Dow Jones Interactive, the largest paid corporate news and information service, which is accessed by more than 600,000 computer users; and Dow Jones Newswires, the premier financial newswires, which are available on more than 285,000 computeated coverage of the full spectrum of business news both in the U.S. and around the world, prepared by a dedicated news staff and supported by the global resources of Thes Newswires' staff of more than 800 business and financial journalists around the globe provide real-time news for financial professionals across five asset classes: equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, commodities and energy. The Nast archive of publications covering the full spectrum of business, financial information on millions of companies and historical data on worldwide financial instruments.

The more than one million paid screens displaying Dow Jones electronic publishing products do not include many other screen-based outlets for Dow Jones content for which to CNBC in the U.S.