The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones' strategy for a cookieless future

Dow Jones’ financial information products are pursuing a subscription strategy in tandem with building reach using partnerships with platforms.

Since its inception, the Wall Street Journal has been about usefulness. The New York financial world’s paper of record began in 1882 as a disseminator of small, handwritten bulletins known as ‘flimsies’, embossed swiftly on sheets of carbon paper and hand-delivered to financiers and stock market players around the city.

These were set apart by their ability to break down and explain complex financial processes and stories. Just a year later, founders Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser began compiling these bulletins into an afternoon newsletter. By the end of the decade, the Journal had formed.

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