White Plains, NY—April 14, 2003—Dow Jones Newswires and Communicator Inc have reached news distribution and software development agreements in which Dow Jones Newswires will deliver its financial news and information through Communicator Inc’s Hub IM. The unique offering integrates Dow Jones’ content with Communicator Inc’s messaging and collaboration,identity management and content aggregation technologies. The result is a single, secure application through which users can receive market news and then communicate and collaborate about that information in real time.

Communicator Inc’s Hub IM combines real-time messaging and discussion group forums with instantaneous delivery of news and other important information. It is integrated with an address directory and identity management capabilities that use a company’s business rules to manage who has access to whom and how they can be accessed, combined with a wide range of message tracking, archiving and security protections. Dow Jones Newswires’ headlines are viewed within an integrated tab in the messaging and collaboration tool. Hub IM is delivered as a hosted, managed service.

Leo Schlinkert, chief executive officer of Communicator Inc said: “Our agreement with Dow Jones Newswires validates Communicator Inc’s belief that organizations need to integrate communications with information and applications. This must include real-time messaging, content delivery, identity management, presence sensing and cross-enterprise directories within a secure infrastructure. That’s the basis for truly effective business communications and fast decision making.”

“At Dow Jones Newswires, we look to deliver our information products via the channels most useful to our end-users,” said Paul Ingrassia, president, Dow Jones Newswires. “We are pleased that our agreement with Communicator Inc extends access to Dow Jones news into the real-time messaging environment.”

The agreement covers a selection of Dow Jones Newswires’ market-leading, real-time news and information products, enabling buy- and sell-side subscribers to choose the service that best meets their information needs. The Dow Jones news offerings to be distributed via Hub IM are:

• Dow Jones Capital Markets Report - delivering global fixed-income market coverage;
• Dow Jones News Service - providing market-leading coverage of North American companies and markets;
• Dow Jones World Equities Report - covering the major stock markets and foremost companies outside of North America;
• Dow Jones Economic Report - supplying extensive news for international currency markets;
• Dow Jones Corporate Filings Alert - offering news uncovered in SEC filings and bankruptcy courts;
• Dow Jones Energy Service - reporting on events and news in the world’s major energy markets.

Dow Jones NewsPlus, the new Web-based enhancement to Dow Jones News Service, is also available via Hub IM.

Through the software development agreement between the two companies, Communicator Inc can help third parties integrate Dow Jones news into decision-support, transaction-handling and other applications. This introduces new ways to deliver the critical, timely information that helps users make business decisions, serve customers and increase profits.

Pricing and Availability

The combined solution is available immediately to current and prospective customers of both Dow Jones Newswires and Communicator Inc. Pricing is based on the type of news feed and number of users. For more information contact Communicator Inc at (914) 872-2800 and sales@communicator.com.

About Communicator Inc
Communicator Inc provides a suite of software tools and secure, managed technology services that connect the right people to the right information in real-time, within and across organizations. The Communicator Hub identity management, content aggregation and messaging products help build strong relationships between companies and their core customers by improving efficiency, reducing costs and protecting client relationships, content and brands. Communicator Inc has been providing its secure communications services to more than 2,000 Fortune 1000 companies and cross-enterprise communities since 1999. Communicator Inc is a privately held company headquartered in White Plains, New York. For more information about Communicator Inc visit www.communicatorinc.com.

About Dow Jones
Dow Jones Newswires (www.djnewswires.com) provides real-time news for financial professionals in the equities, fixed-income, foreign exchange, and energy markets. The division also offers news for financial firms' Web sites and Dow Jones Newsletters’ sector-specific content. In addition to Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ; dj.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron’s and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Indexes and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

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