Dow Jones Named Best News Provider for Second Consecutive Year

NEW YORK, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Jones & Company, a News Corporation company NYSE: NWS NYSE: NWS.A ASX: NWS ASX: NWSLV, announced today that Dow Jones Newswires, the leading provider of real-time, market-moving news and information, was named Best News Provider at the Inside Market Data Awards 2008 ceremony held yesterday in New York.

This is the second consecutive year that Dow Jones Newswires has won an Inside Market Data award for Best News Provider and the fourth time overall. Other finalists is this category included Bloomberg News and Reuters. The Inside Market Data awards (www.insidemarketdata.com/awards) recognize industry excellence within market data, reference data and enterprise data management.

"Dow Jones helps business and financial professionals throughout the enterprise find the most trusted and relevant business information to drive faster, better-informed, and more profitable decisions," said Clare Hart, executive vice president of Dow Jones and president of Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. "And we're committed to offering our customers a choice in how they want news and information delivered -- both on and off the market data terminal. From the millisecond information and technology requirements of quant traders using Dow Jones News Analytics to the daily demand for highly credible, fast and insightful news and analysis delivered by Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones is truly powering the intelligent enterprise."

Over the last month, Dow Jones Newswires reporters have received several awards for excellence in journalism as follows:

    -- Dow Jones Newswires reporter, Victoria Knight, received the award for
       Best Personal Finance Journalist in the 2008 Business Journalist of the
       Year Awards in London. The Business Journalist of the Year Awards,
       organized by the World Leadership Forum, is widely recognized as one of
       the most important global awards for business writers and broadcasters.
       For more information, visit www.bjoya.org.
    -- IN THE MONEY columnist Steven D. Jones won an Excellence in Financial
       Journalism Award from the New York State Society of Certified Public
       Accountants (NYSSCPA) for "Shedding New Light on a Much-Covered Credit
       Crisis," his entry in the Wire Service - Accounting category. The award
       is judged by accountants who are looking for insightful coverage of
       accounting and business issues. Additional information about NYSSCPA
       can be found at www.nysscpa.org.
    -- The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) recognized
       Dow Jones reporters John D. Stoll and Stephen Wisnefski for
       "DaimlerChrysler Stock Moves into High Gear" in its 13th annual Best
       in Business Journalism contest. The exclusive reporting by Dow Jones
       sent DaimlerChrysler's stock price to its highest level in nearly eight
       years. Additional information about SABEW is available at
       www.sabew.org.

Dow Jones Newswires journalists produce award-winning editorial content that includes market-moving corporate, economic, market, financial and political news. Reporting from nearly 90 bureaus across the globe, Dow Jones publishes up to 12,000 items each day, in 11 languages, covering all asset classes. Dow Jones's products are used by more than 435,000 financial professionals in 66 countries, helping its customers build relationships, create market opportunities and enhance trust in their services.

For more information about Dow Jones Newswires, visit www.djnewswires.com, and to learn more about the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, visit www.solutions.dowjones.com.

ABOUT DOW JONES

Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company NYSE: NWS NYSE: NWS.A ASX: NWS ASX: NWSLV. 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.