# Dow Jones The financial-news publisher of *The Wall Street Journal*, Barron's, and MarketWatch, acquired by [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s [[News Corporation]] in 2007 for ~$5 billion. Dow Jones is the corporate home of the [[Wall Street Journal]] and a named defendant in Trump's 2025 $10 billion defamation suit over the *Journal*'s Epstein birthday-letter story. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to support the [[News Corp Timeline]]. Expand with the Bancroft-family sale and the WSJ editorial independence guarantees.