Organizations Now Have a Practical and Cost-Efficient Way to Share Relevant, Business-Critical News with Clients, Partners and Others NEW YORK, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Jones & Company today introduced a new enhancement to Factiva Reader, its simple, read-only Factiva offering, that provides customers with an affordable option for distributing valuable business news to people outside their organizations, including clients, business partners, investors and extended networks. The new Factiva Reader capability was developed in direct response to customers who wanted to legally share valuable copyrighted news more widely. The combination of Factiva newsletters and Factiva Reader gives organizations a professional, streamlined news distribution tool along with the confidence of knowing that everyone who reads the news articles is doing so legally. By providing relevant and timely communications, Factiva Reader equips businesses and their customers with the information they need to act faster and make better decisions - resulting in stronger customer and affiliate relationships. It also creates a competitive advantage by sharing relevant news in a branded newsletter experience. "It is important for every company to communicate effectively with its key stakeholders, such as employees, customers, partners and investors, in order to build a trustworthy and stable relationship with them," said Dennis Cahill, senior vice president and chief product officer, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. "Factiva Reader is another example of our commitment to driving the success of our customers by helping them communicate valuable business information to key stakeholders in a practical and cost-efficient way, while still complying with copyright laws." With an eye to effective budget management, Factiva Reader also allows customers to see what people are reading, leaving companies well-placed to build, adjust and manage successful information strategies while validating expenditures and measuring return on investment. For more information about Dow Jones Factiva products, visit http://www.factiva.com/. For more information about the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, visit http://www.solutions.dowjones.com/. ABOUT DOW JONES Dow Jones & Company (http://www.dowjones.com/) is a News Corporation company (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; http://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. DATASOURCE: Dow Jones & Company CONTACT: Shannon Sullivan, Public Relations Manager, +1-609-627-2312, , of Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group Web site: http://www.dowjones.com/ http://www.factiva.com/ http://www.solutions.dowjones.com/

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