Dow Jones & Company is a Finalist in Five Codie Award Categories for Its Electronic Publishing Segment

Business Wire, Jan 19, 2005

NEW YORK -- The Wall Street Journal Online and Its Network of Web Sites Are Finalists in Three Categories; Dow Jones Wealth Manager Garners Its First Codie Nomination

Dow Jones & Company, which publishes the world's most vital business and financial news and information, today announced that five of its products have been named as finalists in five categories for the 2005 Codie Awards--with all coming from the Company's Electronic Publishing segment. Factiva(R), a Dow Jones and Reuters company, also was named a finalist.

Dow Jones' and Factiva's products were cited in the following categories:

--Best Online Business Information Service: Non-news

--CareerJournal.com--is targeted to executives, managers and professionals, and features more than 2,500 articles on all aspects of job hunting and career management. The site attracts more than 500,000 unique visitors monthly.

--Factiva.com--is an award-winning news and business information service that aggregates and organizes specialized, relevant information from nearly 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages.

--Best Online News Service

--The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com--is the largest paid subscription news site on the Web.

--Best Online Professional Financial Information Service

--Dow Jones Wealth Manager--is an exciting, new, browser-based application that helps advisers enhance their client relationships. Customized client profiles are continually matched to market-leading Dow Jones news and information, providing advisers with frequent, meaningful and personalized reasons to communicate with their most valued customers--and hottest prospects. The solution was launched in March 2004.

--Best Online Science or Technology Service

--The Wall Street Journal Online's Health Industry Edition--offers authoritative analysis, breaking news and commentary from top health industry journalists.

--Best Vertical Market Business Content Solution

--RealEstateJournal.com--is the Internet's premier site for people seeking real-estate guidance for both commercial and residential properties. It is a one-stop site for information about buying, selling and maintaining real estate.

"We are delighted to have been named Codie Award finalists in five categories for our Electronic Publishing segment," said L. Gordon Crovitz, president, Electronic Publishing, and senior vice president, Dow Jones & Company. "The fact that so many of our products within this segment were recognized is a testament not only to the individual but also to the collective strength of our products."

The Codie Awards, sponsored by The Software & Information Industry Association, acknowledges achievement and vision in software, education, technology and digital content. This year, 1,000 nominees were submitted in 63 categories with about 200 moving on to the finalist review period.

"The 20th Annual Codie Awards continue the tradition of honoring the best of the software, content and education technology industries," said Ken Wasch, SIIA President. "When one considers the number of outstanding companies that competed this year, being named a Codie Awards finalist is a significant achievement."

The 20th Annual Codie Awards will be presented on May 25, 2005, at Universal Studio's Globe Theater in Universal City, Calif.

About Dow Jones & Company

Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; dowjones.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Indexes, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC of CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

About Dow Jones Newswires

Dow Jones Newswires (djnewswires.com) offers real-time news and information solutions for financial professionals providing investment, advice and institutional services. The division also offers news for financial firms' Web sites and Dow Jones Financial Information Services' database, newsletter and event businesses. In addition to Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ; dj.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Indexes and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC Universal of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

About The Wall Street Journal Online

The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com, published by Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; www.dowjones.com), is the largest paid subscription news site on the Web. Launched in 1996, the Online Journal continues to attract quality subscribers that are at the top of their industries, with 701,000 subscribers world-wide as of Q3, 2004.

The Online Journal provides in-depth business news and financial information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with insight and analysis, including breaking business and technology news and analysis from around the world. It draws on the Dow Jones network of nearly 1,800 business and financial news staff--the largest network of business and financial journalists in the world. The Online Journal also features exclusive content, including interactive graphics on business and world news, and online-only columns about the automotive industry, technology, personal finance and more.