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Dow Jones & Company selects EidosMedia platform
Saturday 07. June 2008 - Dow Jones selects Méthode editorial and publishing platform for production of Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com, Barrons, Barrons.com and MarketWatch.com.
Dow Jones & Company has selected EidosMedias Méthode publishing platform for the print and Web editions of The Wall Street Journal. Production of the companys weekly Barrons magazine and its online edition also will be moved to Méthode, as well as its free financial-news website MarketWatch.com.
The Méthode implementation will serve reporters, editors and designers at newsrooms in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The Wall Street Journal is currently produced in three main print editions for the U.S., Europe and Asia. Localized news and advertising in the U.S. edition result in several dozen variants, all of which will be created and managed within Méthodes powerful planning and tracking environment.
The Journals WSJ.com, with more than one million paid subscribers, is the Webs largest paid news site. The adoption of Méthode will allow online operations, currently separate from the print newsroom, to draw on a common news-creation process.
“We have built a global, integrated newsroom and we need the latest technology that fully supports the high demands of this environment,” said Jim Pensiero, the Journals vice president of news projects. “Méthode is the right technology for this environment.”
“We wanted to implement a completely channel-neutral policy,” Mr. Pensiero added. “Reporters will file a single story that will be tailored for the various publishing routes using Méthodes multi-channel editing tools. A single copy will feed multiple channels and editions. Were expecting to achieve significant synergies and savings.”
The adoption of Méthode will help enhance a trend in the Journals editorial practice: a 24/7 editorial operation, rolling from time zone to time zone as the day progresses. When the U.S. news day winds down, management of the portal can be transferred to the Asia offices and then to Europe.
“Being able to manage all of our news products from a common Méthode platform will simplify our operations considerably,” said Jack Gelman, the chief technology officer of the Dow Jones Consumer Media Group.
“We are delighted that the Dow Jones organization has chosen an EidosMedia solution,” said Gabriella Franzini, EidosMedia group CEO. “Their broad portfolio of editorial products will make the fullest use of Méthodes multiple-channel and graphic design capabilities.”
“When we first drew up the blueprint for Méthode nearly ten years ago, we had in mind the kind of multi-channel, multiple-media, global news operation that Dow Jones is planning today,” said EidosMedia group president Angelo Grampa.
“It is immensely satisfying for all of us at EidosMedia to have succeeded in meeting the demands of a news organization of such scope and quality,” Mr. Grampa added. “We look forward to helping it grow in the years ahead.”
Dow Jones is the third user to adopt the EidosMedia platform in the U.S., after The Seattle Times and asset-management company AllianceBernstein.
“Its increasingly recognized that EidosMedia can deliver the real thing in convergent publishing,” said Jo Ann Froelich, EidosMedias president of U.S. operations. “Dow Jones decision is further confirmation that Méthode points the way to the future for the US news and media sector.”