Dow Jones History – 1902 – 1941

Dow Jones History 1902-1941 is acquired by the leading financial journalist of the day, Clarence Barron. Over the next 30 years, Barron recruits and develops a generation of journalists who promote Dow Jones’s reputation for excellence. Those journalists would take the company successfully through the Great Depression and into a new era of prosperity and progress.

1921

Barron’s, America’s premier financial weekly, is founded; its first editor is Clarence Barron.

1926

A motor-driven version of the “Ticker” – a key invention in the delivery of real-time news – was developed by the Dow Jones engineering department.

1929

The first issue of the Pacific Coast Edition of the Journal rolls off the presses on Oct. 21, eight days before the great stock-market crash.

1930

Dow Jones is incorporated in New York. It is now known as Dow Jones & Company after the comma is spent from the former Dow, Jones & Company.

1934

Afternoon edition of the Journal ceases.

Chief Executive Officer Casey Hogate begins a series of changes during the next decade that finally result in the metamorphosis of the Journal into a new kind of everyday newspaper. One of these changes is coming of the “What’s News” column. Created by Bernard “Barney” Kilgore, that column was the first major informal of the news, a precursor to omnipresent summaries and digests on the Internet today.