What Does the Horizon look like for New Media Models?

Since the mid-1990s, millions of users and thousands of companies have started settlements on the Web. Some business models have struck it rich, and some have gone bust, but nearly everyone agrees, there's gold out there. What's exciting is that there are no hard and fast rules in this wild frontier, so there are many discoveries yet to be made. New technologies, new content types, and access to an unprecedented number of Internet consumers are blending into a lucrative opportunity for savvy content owners and buyers.

Clare Hart, Executive Vice President, Enterprise Media Group, Dow Jones & Company, will discuss how content owners and buyers can profit in this new environment and whether new media and social publishing are changing the definition of trustworthy content. Learn how you can be a successful prospector in the online frontier.

BIOGRAPHY

CLARE HART

Executive Vice President, Dow Jones & Company

President, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group

Clare Hart is executive vice president, Dow Jones & Company, and president, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, a principal business unit with $657 million of revenue. She is responsible for the Company’s media portfolio serving businesses, including Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Licensing Services, Factiva, Dow Jones Indexes, Dow Jones Financial Information Services, Dow Jones Reprints and Permissions, as well as the Company’s enterprise-facing joint venture, STOXX.

From January 2000 to February 2006, Ms. Hart was president and chief executive officer of Factiva, where she drove the strategic vision for this award-winning and innovative business news and information company. During her tenure, Factiva grew to No. 1 in its industry from No. 3, reaching $281 million in annual revenue and serving more than 1.8 million business people at enterprises world-wide.

Prior to this, Ms. Hart held the position of vice president and director of Factiva Global Sales, where she consolidated the multiple sales groups from each predecessor into one global team and began the process of building customer confidence in the new joint venture. She began her career at Dow Jones in 1983 and held various positions in sales, marketing, customer service, and product design and development at Dow Jones Interactive before joining Factiva.

Ms. Hart is regarded highly as an expert on business intelligence, enterprise-search technologies and the information needs of businesspeople and has won numerous awards for her leadership and innovation. From 2004 to 2006, she sat on the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA) board of directors and is a member of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP).

Ms. Hart received a bachelor of science degree in finance and computer systems management from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She also has an M.B.A. from Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J.

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