Associated Press and Dow Jones Extend Partnership

Posted on December 5, 1997

Dow Jones & Company and The Associated Press announced a seven-year extension of their 30-year-old partnership producing international financial news services.

The extension, to the end of 2004, will allow more long-range product development, more consistent global branding and closer sales integration for their financial newswires, which will now be branded as "Dow Jones Newswires, produced in partnership with The Associated Press."

The change will also enable Dow Jones Newswires to complete the integration of its staff of more than 700 reporters and editors worldwide. Dow Jones and AP emphasized that the seven year extension of their agreement, which has been renewed every two years in the past, underscores the closeness that has characterized their partnership since its start in 1967.