The Wall Street Journal
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Cover of The Wall Street Journal (March 23, 2016), with the headline story reporting on the 2016 Brussels bombings.
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | News Corp (via Dow Jones & Company) |
| Editor-in-chief | Gerard Baker |
| Opinion editor | Paul A. Gigot |
| Founded | July 8, 1889 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 2,378,827 Daily (as of March 2013) |
| ISSN | 0099-9660 |
| OCLC number | 781541372 |
| Website | www |
The Wall Street Journal is a business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal, along with its Asian and European editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. The newspaper is published in the broadsheet format and online.
The Wall Street Journal is the largest newspaper in the United States by circulation. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, the Journal had a circulation of about 2.4 million copies (including nearly 900,000 digital subscriptions) as of March 2013, compared with USA Today's 1.7 million.
The newspaper has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes through 2015 and derives its name from Wall Street in the heart of the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. The Journal has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser.
The Journal also publishes the luxury news and lifestyle magazine WSJ..
The first products of Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of the Journal, were brief news bulletins, knick-named "flimsies," hand-delivered throughout the day to traders at the in the early 1880s. They were later aggregated in a printed daily summary called the Customers' Afternoon Letter. Reporters Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser converted this into The Wall Street Journal, which was published for the first time on July 8, 1889, and began delivery of the Dow Jones News Service via telegraph. In 1896, The "Dow Jones Industrial Average" was officially launched. It was the first of several indices of stock and bond prices on the . In 1899, the Journal's Review & Outlook column, which still runs today, appeared for the first time, initially written by Charles Dow.
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