Prime-Tass’ news now available to Dow Jones subscribers
MOSCOW/LONDON, April 20 (Prime-Tass) -- Leading Russian business-news agency Prime-Tass and Dow Jones Newswires, the world’s leading independent, real-time financial and business news provider, today announced that English-language news produced by Prime-Tass is now available to all users of Dow Jones Newswires’ premium equities and money services. This initiative marks a broadening of the agreement between the two companies, which have been strategic partners for nearly two years.
From today, subscribers around the world to Dow Jones Newswires’ Financial Wire and Economic Report have automatic access to approximately 100 news stories daily produced by Prime-Tass. This agreement considerably expands the coverage of Russian and CIS companies and markets available on Dow Jones Newswires.
"Interest in Russian business and market news is growing worldwide, and we believe that the addition of our English-language news content to Dow Jones Newswires’ premium services will satisfy this interest and enhance the Dow Jones Newswires offering available to clients in Russia and other countries," said Oleg Ananyev, chief executive officer of Prime-Tass.
"We are delighted that we have been able to deepen our relationship with Prime-Tass to better serve our customers, particularly those in Russia and the CIS," said Michael Bergmeijer, vice president, international sales & marketing of Dow Jones Newswires. "Combining our news resources provides the highest quality coverage of this fast-moving region, and matches the growing appetites of institutional investors for news and information out of Russia and the CIS."
About Prime-Tass
Prime-Tass is one of the leading business news agencies in Russia. Privately controlled, the agency has no political affiliations and is known worldwide for its objective coverage. In June 2003 Prime-Tass announced a strategic partnership agreement with Dow Jones Newswires, the world’s leading provider of real-time business and financial news. In February 2004 Prime-Tass and Dow Jones Newswires launched DJ Forex, the first Russian-language news service to focus on the foreign exchange markets.
Prime-Tass’ English language service publishes over 100 news and analysis items daily. In addition to the newswire, the English language service also publishes the Prime-Tass News daily round-up, compiled from the reports of 150 Prime-Tass journalists based in Russia and the CIS, and the weekly Capital Markets Report bulletin covering Russia's financial markets.
About Dow Jones Newswires
Dow Jones Newswires’ award-winning content includes economic, financial and market-moving political news from around the world. It is the world’s leading independent, real-time financial news provider, delivering up to 10,000 news items a day to more than 390,000 financial professionals in 66 countries.
In addition to this, millions of people access selected Dow Jones Newswires content through various corporate Internet sites, electronic exchanges, corporate intranets and business information services. Dow Jones Newswires provides real-time news services in 10 languages.
Dow Jones Newswires’ OPEC reporter Shai Oster was named ‘Best Online Reporter’ in the World Leadership Forum’s 2005 Business Journalist of the Year Awards in March 2005 for his groundbreaking coverage of Saudi Arabia, focusing on energy and economic issues.
In April 2004, Dow Jones Newswires was voted “News Provider of the Year” for the second year running by market data and exchange professionals in the Market Data Awards, organized by the Risk Waters publication Inside Market Data.
In 2003, representatives of 15,000 U.K. dealing-room professionals named Dow Jones Newswires the “Best Rated (newswire) Service” for the second year running in an independent survey conducted by Kimsey Consulting. Dow Jones Newswires achieved the highest rating for reliability and breadth of reporting and overall customer satisfaction.
Founded in 1882, Dow Jones Newswires has nearly 900 real-time editors and reporters. It is part of Dow Jones & Company’s global news network of nearly 1,700 business and financial news staff. Dow Jones Newswires also draws on the resources of several of its media partners including the Associated Press and Nikkei.
For further information, please contact:
Melanie Spencer, Dow Jones & Company, tel + 44 (0) 20 7842 9685, e-mail: melanie.spencer@dowjones.com
Michael Gulyaev, Prime-Tass, tel +7495-974-76-64, e-mail: gulyaev@prime-tass.com
