Press Release
Wall Street Journal Digital Network Launches China Real Time Report
BEIJING (Oct. 29, 2009) —The Wall Street Journal Digital Network today launched China Real Time Report (http://asia.wsj.com/chinarealtime), a comprehensive resource for news and analysis on China. China Real Time Report succeeds the popular blog, China Journal.China Real Time Report offers sharp analysis from Dow Jones’s wide network of journalists across Greater China—approximately 40 Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires reporters and researchers based in mainland China as well as editorial staff in Hong Kong and Taiwan—plus the insights of commentators close to the hottest topics of the day in business, finance, law, policy, economics and culture.
“Our goal is to bring together in one place the smartest reporting and thinking about China today,” said Andrew Browne, China Editor of the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. “For both experienced China-watchers, and anyone trying to figure out what the rise of China means for the world, China Real Time Report will be the place to go and join the conversation.”
Almar Latour, Editor-in-chief, Asia, responsible for the Journal’s print and digital editions in the region, noted, "China Real Time Report, with Andrew Browne at its helm, will bring a tremendous wealth of knowledge to readers interested in every aspect of China."
Since News Corp. acquired Dow Jones in 2007, the company’s regional investments and initiatives have also included: the redesign of Chinese.WSJ.com, which has more than 600,000 registered users; expansion of the CLS (Chinese Language Services) Newswires operation, which provides around-the-clock real-time financial news in Chinese; the launch of a Dow Jones Factiva automatic translation tool that provides access to global information in eight foreign languages including Chinese and Japanese; printing, distribution and content licensing agreements with The Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan; since October 2008, the doubling in size of Dow Jones’s India news bureau, with plans to double investment in the company’s Indian operation in each of the next two years; the printing of The Wall Street Journal Asia in India; an expanded Web site dedicated to Asia (asia.WSJ.com), a homepage for India (india.WSJ.com), a Web site about rural India (http://online.wsj.com/public/page/rural-india.html) operated jointly with India Knowledge@Wharton, and an India management page (http://india.wsj.com/management); and the regional introduction of WSJ Mobile Reader, a mobile application which delivers content from WSJ.com, MarketWatch.com, Barrons.com and AllThingsD.com to most BlackBerry® smartphones.
Later this year, Dow Jones and SBI Holdings, Inc. of Japan, through a joint venture, Wall Street Journal Japan K.K., will launch a Japanese-language business and financial news Web site. Dow Jones holds 60% of Wall Street Journal Japan K.K. and SBIH holds 40%.
About Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; 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.
About The Wall Street Journal Digital Network
Marketers seeking business decision-makers and affluent and influential individuals can reach more than 34 million visitors each month across The Wall Street Journal Digital Network. All sites in the network are owned by Dow Jones & Company and include The Wall Street Journal Online (www.wsj.com), the leading provider of business and financial news and analysis on the web; Barrons.com, the site of America's premier financial magazine; MarketWatch.com, a leading investing and financial news site with 100 journalists in 11 bureaus around the world; and AllThingsD.com, a site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media.
