Wall Street Journal Selects Ketchum Pleon as Agency Partner for Its Future of Finance...

Wall Street Journal Selects Ketchum Pleon as Agency Partner for Its Future of
Finance Initiative

NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Wall Street Journal has selected
Ketchum Pleon as its agency partner to develop communications strategy and media
relations for the Journal's Future of Finance Initiative, a unique international
conference that addresses the most urgent priorities for global economic
recovery.

The second Wall Street Journal Future of Finance Initiative will convene more
than 100 leading CEOs, financial executives, top fund managers, officials from
G-20 nations and prize-winning economists to debate and ultimately agree on the
priorities for international financial regulation and coordination. The
conference will be held 7-8 Dec., just outside London, in West Sussex, United
Kingdom.

"Ketchum Pleon was tapped for this prestigious assignment because of its
extensive knowledge of the European media market and its growing strength in
financial communications," said Robert H. Christie, vice president of
communications, Consumer Media Group, Dow Jones & Company. "Ketchum's expertise
will aid our growth in a critically important business within Dow Jones."

Ketchum Pleon is one of the largest, most geographically diverse communications
consultancies in the world and the established European market leader. Ketchum
has more than 2,000 employees in owned operations and operates in 66 countries
with 103 owned and affiliated offices worldwide.

The Journal's Future of Finance Initiative will bring together leading
international financial experts and policy makers in the United Kingdom to
ensure that many expert voices are heard at a time when governments around the
world are making decisions that will redefine the global financial system.

"Ketchum Pleon is proud to partner with The Wall Street Journal on this
groundbreaking initiative," said Avril Lee, partner and deputy chief executive
officer of Ketchum Pleon London. "We look forward to putting our corporate and
financial capabilities to work as we help communicate the outcomes of this
important meeting to international audiences."

Selected participants in the Journal's upcoming Future of Finance Initiative in
the United Kingdom include:

* Damon Buffini, chairman, Permira
* Rt Hon David Cameron, MP, leader of the Conservative Party
* Rt Hon Alistair Darling, MP, chancellor of the Exchequer
* Sir Howard Davies, director, London School of Economics and
Political Science
* Robert Diamond Jr., president, Barclays PLC & chief executive
officer, Investment Banking & Investment Management
* Richard Gnodde, co-chief executive officer, Goldman Sachs
International
* Anshu Jain, head of global markets and member of the Management
Board, Deutsche Bank
* Alessandro Profumo, chief executive officer, UniCredit Group
* Emmanuel Roman, co-chief executive officer, GLG Partners
* Peter Sands, group chief executive, Standard Chartered Bank
* Myron Scholes, chairman, Platinum Grove Asset Management; Nobel
Laureate in Economics; Professor of Finance Emeritus, Stanford
University
* Eraj Shirvani, managing director, Credit Suisse and chairman of
the International Swaps and Derivatives Association
* George Soros, chairman, Soros Fund Management, LLC
* Michael Spencer, chief executive officer, ICAP plc
* Roustam Tariko, chairman, Russian Standard
* Paul Volcker, chairman, President's Economic Recovery Advisory
Board Former Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve
The participants will work both as a group and within four concurrent task force
sessions, each facilitated by a top Wall Street Journal editor, to address key
financial issues in depth. International Journal editors moderating discussions
include: Gerard Baker, deputy editor-in-chief; Thorold Barker, editor, Heard on
the Street column; Nikhil Deogun, deputy managing editor; Stephen Fidler,
Brussels editor; Alan Murray, deputy managing editor and executive editor,
online; Robert Thomson, managing editor and editor-in-chief, Dow Jones &
Company; David Wessel, economics editor; and Patience Wheatcroft,
editor-in-chief, Europe.

The results of the second Wall Street Journal Future of Finance Initiative will
be published in a Journal Report on 14 Dec. For more information and an expanded
list of participants, please go to https://futurefinance.wsj.com.

About The Wall Street Journal

Founded in 1889, The Wall Street Journal, the flagship publication of Dow Jones
& Company, is the world's leading business publication and holds 33 Pulitzer
Prizes for outstanding journalism. The Wall Street Journal has a print and
online circulation of more than 2 million, reaching the nation's top business
and political leaders, as well as investors across the country. The Wall Street
Journal boasts the largest individually paid circulation out of the top 25 U.S.
newspapers. Other publications that are part of The Wall Street Journal
franchise, with a global audience of 3.8 million, include The Wall Street
Journal Asia and The Wall Street Journal Europe. The Wall Street Journal Online
at WSJ.com is the leading provider of business and financial news and analysis
on the Web with more than one million subscribers and 26 million users per
month. WSJ.com is the flagship site of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network,
which also includes MarketWatch.com, Barrons.com and AllThingsD.com. In 2009,
the Journal was ranked No. 1 in BtoB's Media Power 50 for the 10th consecutive
year. The Wall Street Journal Radio Network services news and information to
more than 375 radio stations in the U.S.

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About Ketchum Pleon

Ketchum Pleon is the leading communications consultancy in Europe. For more
information, visit www.ketchumpleonmerge.com.

About Ketchum

A communications innovator, Ketchum ranks among the largest global
communications consultancies and leads the industry in the U.K. and continental
Europe as Ketchum Pleon. With five global practices - Brand Marketing,
Corporate, Healthcare, Food and Nutrition, and Technology - and specialty
capabilities that include Access Communications (high- and consumer-tech PR),
Concentric Communications (experiential marketing, events and meetings), MMG
(clinical trial recruitment), Ketchum Global Research Network, Ketchum Sports
and Entertainment Marketing, and Stromberg Consulting (change management and
workplace communications), Ketchum leverages its marketing and corporate
communication expertise to build brands and reputations for clients. In 2009,
Advertising Age named Ketchum to its annual "Ones to Watch" Agency A-List,
noting the agency's long-standing client partnerships, digital and disruptive
media expertise, and CSR and sustainability programming. For more information on
Ketchum, a unit of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE:OMC), visit www.ketchum.com.

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