Dow Jones Fact Sheet

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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.

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HEADQUARTERS 1 World Financial Center 200 Liberty Street New York, N.Y. 10281 212-416-2000 www.dowjones.com Dow Jones & Company is a News Corporation company (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; 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. NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES Full Time: More than 7,000 Business & Financial News Staff: Nearly 1,900 FOUNDATION Year: 1882 Founders: Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser CONSUMER MEDIA GROUP The Consumer Media Group delivers high-quality branded business news, information and services to some 14 million high-demographic, engaged consumers how, when and where they want it. The Wall Street Journal is the flagship, founded in 1889 and redesigned in print and online for the Digital Age in 2007. The Journal franchise includes The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Online, The Wall Street Journal Asia, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Wall Street Journal Sunday, The Wall Street Journal Americas and video and radio services. The Barron's franchise includes Barron's magazine, Barron's.com and the Barron's Conferences. MarketWatch is the newest franchise in the group, with its markets news and financial information Web sites, video and radio services and stock market simulations. ENTERPRISE MEDIA GROUP Offering a full suite of business information and services products for financial, corporate and media, and government enterprises, the Enterprise Media Group has seven principle business units. Dow Jones Newswires provides real-time news and wealth-management tools to financial and business professionals world-wide. Factiva is the leading provider of archival and current awareness news and information as well as content delivery tools and services that enable professionals to make better decisions faster.Dow Jones Licensing Services powers the financial data, tools and news on the Web sites of top financial institutions and media firms. DowJones Indexes develops, maintains and licenses market indexes,including the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Average, for use as benchmarks and as the basis for investment products. Dow Jones Financial Information Services delivers news, information and events on specialized financial sectors including private equity, venture capital,bankruptcy and other alternative investment segments around the globe. And Dow Jones Reprints and Permissions Services offers reprints of Dow Jones products in all segments in print, for the Web or through licensing rights. Dow Jones Business & Relationship Intelligence delivers timely and comprehensive executive and company information to sales and business development, research professionals, plus media organizations, using unique, patented technologies that harvest information from the Web and alert users to business opportunities. The joint venture STOXX Limited is a joint venture with Deutsche Boerse AG and SWX Group to develop and market the Dow Jones STOXX indices around the world. LOCAL MEDIA GROUP The Local Media Group operates under the Ottaway brand and has regional media groups in eight strategic locations on the east and west coasts. It publishes 22 newspapers, eight daily and 14 weekly, with daily print circulation of 281,000 and Sunday of 303,000. Surveys reveal that they are consistently the most trusted source for information about the communities served. In addition, each location has one or more Internet sites with a total of 121,000 average daily unique visitors. The Local Media Group also publishes magazines and other ancillary publications and operates branded contract delivery, direct mail and commercial printing services. Ottaway was founded in 1936 and acquired by Dow Jones in 1970. Year Founded: 1936 Year Purchased by Dow Jones: 1970 Number of Daily Newspapers Published: 8 Number of Weekly Newspapers Published: 15 Average total daily paid circulation: 280,711* Average total Sunday paid circulation: 303,468* Number of News Staff: 750 * Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations for six months ended March 31, 2007.

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