The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a daily newspaper published in the United States that focuses on worldwide business and is located in New York City. International versions of the newspaper are also published in Chinese and Japanese. Dow Jones & Company, which is a subsidiary of News Corporation, is responsible for publishing The Journal on a daily basis, in addition to its Asian versions. The newspaper is distributed in broadsheet style as well as being made available online. Since its founding on July 8, 1889 by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser, The Journal has been published on a consistent basis via the printing press. It is widely acknowledged that The Journal is a newspaper of record, especially with respect to matters pertaining to business and the economy. The newspaper now has a total of 38 Pulitzer Prizes, with the most recent one being awarded in 2019.

The Wall Street Journal is one of the newspapers that has the largest circulation in the United States. As of the month of August 2019, the circulation of the Wall Street Journal was approximately 2.834 million copies, which included nearly 1,829,000 sales of the digital edition. This number was compared to the circulation of 1.7 million for USA Today. WSJ, the premium news and lifestyle magazine published by The Journal, was first established as a quarterly publication but increased to 12 issues in 2014. In 1995, an online version was introduced, but ever since its inception, access to it has been restricted to paying customers only. The editorial stances taken by the Journal are traditionally more conservative than other parts of the publication.

In the early 1880s, traders at the stock market were given small news bulletins that were hand-delivered throughout the day by Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of the Journal. These news bulletins were known as "flimsies," and they were the company's initial product. After then, all of the information was compiled and published as a daily summary called the Customers' Afternoon Letter. Reporters Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser transformed this into The Wall Street Journal, which was published for the first time on July 8, 1889. At the same time, Dow Jones & Company News Service started sending out its dispatches through telegraph.