The Wall Street Journal Names Judy Barry Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Business Wire, April 15, 2005

NEW YORK -- Wall Street Journal Publisher Karen House today announced that Judy Barry, vice president, marketing and business development, has been promoted to senior vice president, sales and marketing, at the Wall Street Journal. Ms. Barry will succeed Scott Schulman, who was promoted earlier today to vice president, chief strategy officer at Dow Jones, the Journal's parent company. In her new role, Ms. Barry will be responsible for the Journal's global advertising sales, marketing and services operations. She will report to Ms. House.

"I am confident that Judy has the right combination of sales and marketing and strategic planning experience to lead our advertising sales team, and build on the momentum created in recent years as we've revamped our sales strategy and structure," Ms. House said. "Judy has been deeply involved along with me, Scott and others in our planning for Weekend Edition; continuing our sales successes on this exciting new project obviously will be among her high priorities in coming months."

Ms. House indicated that Ms. Barry will fill the top advertising sales and marketing role on an interim basis and that in coming months, together with Ms. Barry, she will interview internal and external candidates to fill the role permanently.

Ms. Barry joined Dow Jones as The Wall Street Journal's vice president for marketing in September 2004 after serving in a variety of sales roles, most recently at The New York Times, where she was group director for The New York Times Magazine, international and domestic fashion advertising, and more than 200 special sections. Under her stewardship, the magazine achieved a number of milestones, including advancing its rank in total advertising pages sold among all U.S. magazines. Ms. Barry also led classified advertising for The New York Times, where she orchestrated revenue and profit growth and managed a staff of 80 sales representatives. Before joining the Times in 1993, Ms. Barry held various marketing and financial planning positions at the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post.

Ms. Barry earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in English from Barnard College at Columbia University.

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