Dow Jones buys out SmartMoney, launches 'Reprint Portal'
Posted by Leah McBride Mensching on March 3, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Dow Jones & Co. has acquired the 50 percent of SmartMoney it didn't already own, gaining complete control of the franchise from U.S. publisher Hearst Corp, BtoB Media Business reported yesterday. The brand includes SmartMoney magazine, Smartmoney.com and SmartMoney Custom Solutions, a custom publishing business. Hearst and Dow Jones first partnered on SmartMoney in 1991.The news and business information group has also launched a new site, called Reprint Portal (reprintportal.com). The new site will take reprint orders for Dow Jones Factivia's content partners. In its beta period, the site offered content from The Associated Press, SourceMedia (a b-to-b publisher) and Dow Jones, according to BtoB.
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![Digg](http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfnblog.com%2Fownership_and_regulations%2F2010%2F03%2Fdow_jones_buys_out_smartmoney_launches_r.php&bodytext=<form mt:asset-id="5985" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image" style="display: inline;" contenteditable="false"><img alt="Dow Jones.jpg" src="http://www.sfnblog.com/industry_trends/Dow%20Jones.jpg" class="mt-image-left" style="margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;" height="45" width="165" /></form>Dow Jones & Co. has acquired the 50 percent of SmartMoney it didn't already own, gaining complete control of the franchise from U.S. publisher Hearst Corp, <a href="http://www.btobonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100302/MEDIABUSINESS/100309968/1094/MEDIABUSINESS">BtoB Media Business reported yesterday</a>. The brand includes SmartMoney magazine, Smartmoney.com and SmartMoney Custom Solutions, a custom publishing business. Hearst and Dow Jones first partnered on SmartMoney in 1991.<br /><br />The news and business information group has also launched a new site, called Reprint Portal (reprintportal.com). The new site will take reprint orders for Dow Jones Factivia's content partners. In its beta period, the site offered content from The Associated Press, SourceMedia (a b-to-b publisher) and Dow Jones, <a href="http://www.btobonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100302/MEDIABUSINESS/100309977/1117/MEDIABUSINESS">according to BtoB</a>. &title=Dow Jones buys out SmartMoney, launches 'Reprint Portal'){kind=link}
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