Dow Jones News/Retrieval

Dow Jones News/Retrieval was an online service offered by Dow Jones & Company beginning in 1973, which greatly expanded its subscriber numbers during the 1980s. It focused on financial information offering access to securities prices including quotes on stocks, bonds, options and mutual funds as well as a news data base with items culled from The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and other sources, as well as sports reports, movie reviews, electronic shopping, and email., Infoworld, April 30, 1984James C. Condon, , New York Times, March 23, 1986., Infoworld, March 30, 1981Beth Krevitt-Eres et al, for UNESCO (1986), , p. 56

In the 1990s it also provided access to articles from The New York Times, New York Times, December 7, 1993. and Westlaw., New York Times, May 18, 1994.

Fees for using the service were relatively expensive. It cost $30 to subscribe followed by a $12 annual membership fee. Additionally, prime-time usage charges were $2.30 per minute and after-hours access was 44 cents a minute for basic services and general information, and $1.76 a minute for detailed reports such as S.E.C. filings. "Blue Chip" and "Executive" discount plans were available for users who spent a...
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