Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour Explains Why Boring Data Is a Great Media Business

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Almar Latour discusses the success of Dow Jones and its various business ventures beyond The Wall Street Journal.

I think of Dow Jones as The Wall Street Journal, because that’s the part I know — and the part I used to work near/around/inside. But Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour has built a much bigger business around the Journal: risk and compliance, energy data, Factiva, AI deals, and other stuff that sounds boring until you realize how much money companies will pay for it. So I asked Latour to explain why Dow Jones is doing well while so many other media companies are struggling, howEmma Tucker, the Wall Street Journal's editor-in-chief, is changing the Journal, what he’s trying to do with AI, and what it’s like to run a Murdoch-owned newsroom that covers Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Host: Peter Kafka

Guest: Almar Latour

Topics covered

• media business
• data
• AI
• journalism
• Dow Jones
• Wall Street Journal

Keywords

• Dow Jones
• media
• AI
• Emma Tucker
• Rupert Murdoch
• Donald Trump
• Wall Street Journal
• business

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Organizations: Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal

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