Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour Explains Why Boring Data Is a Great Media Business
About this episode
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
People in this episode
Host: Peter Kafka
Guest: Almar Latour
Topics covered
- media business
- data
- AI
- journalism
- Dow Jones
- Wall Street Journal
Keywords
- Dow Jones
- media
- AI
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal
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