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Dow Jones Newswires named "News Provider of the Year "
for the Second Consecutive Year by Inside Market Data Awards
NEW
YORK (April 19, 2004)
For the second consecutive year, Dow Jones Newswires, the world’s
leading independent provider of real-time financial news, has been
named “News Provider of the Year” by market data and exchange
professionals voting in the Inside Market Data Awards. The awards
are organized by Inside Market Data, an Incisive Media Plc publication.
Winners will be honored at an awards dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel
in New York on April 20, 2004.
Dow
Jones Newswires beat Reuters News, Bloomberg News, AFX News, World
Business News Alliance and Xinhua Financial Network to take the
top prize. Industry professionals at user firms, exchanges and vendors
from around the world voted in the online poll, which also included
categories for “Data Provider of the Year” and “Research
Provider of the Year.”
“Each
day, our global editorial team strives to deliver the most accurate,
timely and insightful news and information to our users around the
world,” said Paul Ingrassia, president of Dow Jones Newswires,
“Being recognized by our customers is very gratifying.”
Dow Jones Newswires has more than 318,000 subscribers world-wide
as of the fourth quarter of 2003. It delivers more than 10,000 headlines
a day in 11 different languages.
On
April 2, Dow Jones completed the acquisition of the news operations
and newsletters business from vwd-Vereinigte Wirtschaftsdienste
GmbH (“vwd”), the leading provider of German-language,
real-time financial newswires and business newsletters. Dow Jones
Newswires launched Dow Jones Wealth Manager, a solution for financial
advisors that enhances client communication and the relationship-building
activities that are essential to gathering more assets and attracting
new clients, in the first quarter of 2004.
About
Dow Jones Newswires
Dow Jones Newswires (www.djnewswires.com) provides real-time news
for financial professionals in the equities, fixed-income, foreign
exchange, and energy markets. The division also offers news for
financial firms' Web sites and Dow Jones Newsletters’ sector-specific
content. 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 of the CNBC television operations in Asia
and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio
stations in the U.S.
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