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The company was founded in 1882 by three reporters: Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser . Like the The New York Times and the Washington Post, the company is publicly traded but family-controlled, and not the subsidiary of a multinational corporation.
Its flagship publication, The Wall Street Journal, is a daily newspaper covering U.S. and international business and financial news and issues. It began publishing on July 8, 1889.
Sister publications of the Journal include Barron's Magazine , a weekly overview of the world economy and markets; The Asian Wall Street Journal and The Wall Street Journal India covering Asian business; and The Wall Street Journal Europe covering European business. The Wall Street Journal Special Editions division publishes translations of articles for inclusion in local newspapers, notably in Latin America. In addition, Dow Jones published the weekly journal Far Eastern Economic Review, as well as the consumer magazine SmartMoney in conjunction with the Hearst Corporation.
Dow Jones Electronic Publishing hosts several websites. In addition to online editions of its publications, the company operates the career advancement-oriented CareerJournal.com and CollegeJournal.com; OpinionJournal.com, with featured content from the Wall Street Journals politically conservative editorial pages; business portals StartupJournal.com and RealEstateJournal.com; and Factiva, a news and business information service, owned jointly with Reuters.
In broadcasting, Dow Jones is co-owner with NBCSteff Geissbuhler. The feathers are said to represent the network's six divisions. NBC Universal Television is an American television network based in New York's Rockefeller Center. As of May 2004, it became part of NBC Universal. NBC supplies programming of the CNBCCNBC Consumer News and Business Channel is a cable and satellite television news channel operated in the United States by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Launched on April 17, 1989, it provides business news programming from 5am to 7pm eastern ti television operations in AsiaThe continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague, especially between Asia and Europe: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and E and EuropeFor the band of the same name, see Europe (band . Europe is a continent forming the westermost part of the Eurasian supercontinent. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Se, which are branded "a service of NBC and Dow Jones." Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC in the U.S. It produces two shows for commercial radioFor other uses see: radio (disambiguation Radio is a technology that allows the transmission of signals by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of light. Radio waves Radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation, and are, The Wall Street Journal Report and The Dow Jones Money Report .
Dow Jones also owns Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. , which publishes several community newspapers in the U.S.
The company is also responsible for several widely used stock market indicesA stock market index is a listing of stocks, and a statistic reflecting the composite value of its components. It is used as a tool to represent the characteristics of its component stocks, all of which bear some commonality such as trading on the same st, among them: