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{{Short description|American daily business newspaper}} {{redirect|WSJ}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Wall Street Journal | logo = [[File:WSJ Logo.svg|frameless|class=skin-invert|250px]] | logo_size = | logo_border = yes | logo_alt = | image = | image_size = 250px | image_border = yes | image_alt = border | caption = | motto = It's Your Business | type = [[Daily newspaper]] | format = [[Broadsheet]] | foundation = {{start date and age|1889|7|8|br=y}} | owners = [[Dow Jones & Company]] | founders = {{ubl|[[Charles Dow]]|[[Edward Jones (statistician)|Edward Jones]]|[[Charles Bergstresser]]}} | chiefeditor = [[Emma Tucker]] | depeditor = [[Charles Forelle]] | maneditor = Liz Harris | opeditor = [[Paul Gigot]] | publisher = [[Almar Latour]] | language = [[English language|English]] | headquarters = {{ubl|[[1211 Avenue of the Americas]]|[[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]] 10036, U.S.}} | publishing_country = United States | staff = 1,800{{cn|date=May 2025}} | circulation = {{bulleted list| 3,966,000 news subscribers * 3,406,000 digital-only * 560,000 print + digital }} | circulation_date = June 2023 | circulation_ref = <ref name="circ-aug23">{{cite web|url=https://investors.newscorp.com/static-files/3e47bb14-f93c-4358-8118-78c0945c9124|title=News Corporation 2023 the Annual Report on Form 10-K|date=August 15, 2023|publisher=[[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]]|url-status=live|access-date=April 27, 2024|format=PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319020042/https://investors.newscorp.com/static-files/3e47bb14-f93c-4358-8118-78c0945c9124 |archive-date=March 19, 2024}}</ref> | ISSN = 0099-9660 | eissn = 1042-9840 | oclc = 781541372 | website = {{Official URL}} }} '''''The Wall Street Journal''''' ('''''WSJ'''''), also referred to simply as '''the''' '''''Journal''','' is an American newspaper based in [[New York City]]. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to its articles and content. The ''Journal'' is published six days a week by [[Dow Jones & Company]], a division of [[News Corp]]. As of 2023, ''The'' ''Wall Street Journal'' is the [[List of newspapers in the United States|largest newspaper in the United States]] by [[print circulation]], with 609,650 print subscribers. It has 3.17 million digital subscribers, the second-most in the nation after ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="circ-aug23" /> The newspaper is one of the United States' [[Newspaper of record|newspapers of record]].<ref name="caulfield1">{{Citation |last=Caulfield |first=Mike |title=National Newspapers of Record |date=8 January 2017 |work=Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers |url=https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/chapter/national-newspapers-of-record/ |access-date=20 July 2020 |publisher=Self-published |language=en |archive-date=October 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002154749/https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/chapter/national-newspapers-of-record/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="FrostWeingarten20172">{{cite book |author1=Corey Frost |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7rGhDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 |title=The Broadview Guide to Writing: A Handbook for Students |author2=Karen Weingarten |author3=Doug Babington |author4=Don LePan |author5=Maureen Okun |date=30 May 2017 |publisher=Broadview Press |isbn=978-1-55481-313-1 |edition=6th |pages=27β |access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref> The first issue of the newspaper was published on July 8, 1889.<ref>{{cite press release |type=Press release |title=The Wall Street Journal Strengthens Its International Editions; Repositions To Better Serve Global Business Leaders and Advertisers |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050508005015/en/The-Wall-Street-Journal-Strengthens-Its-International-Editions-Repositions-To-Better-Serve-Global-Business-Leaders-and-Advertisers |website=[[Business Wire]] |date=May 8, 2005 |access-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-date=December 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203023159/https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20050508005015/en/The-Wall-Street-Journal-Strengthens-Its-International-Editions-Repositions-To-Better-Serve-Global-Business-Leaders-and-Advertisers |url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Editorial board at The Wall Street Journal|editorial page of the ''Journal'']] is typically [[center-right]] in its positions.<ref name="Benkler">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVRuDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22wall+street+journal%22+%22center-right%22+editorial&pg=PA353 |title=Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics |author1=Yochai Benkler |author2=Robert Faris |author3=Hal Roberts |year=2018 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=353β354 |isbn=978-0-19-092364-8 |quote=One of our clearest and starkest findings is the near disappearance of center-right media. There is the ''Wall Street Journal'', with its conservative editorial page but continued commitment to journalistic standards in its reporting; and to some extent ''The Hill'' plays a center-right role. Both sites appear in the center of the partisan landscape according to our data because readers on the right did not pay attention to these sites any more than readers on the left did. |access-date=October 30, 2023 |archive-date=November 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118213425/https://books.google.com/books?id=MVRuDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22wall+street+journal%22+%22center-right%22+editorial&pg=PA353 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ember |first=Sydney |title=Wall Street Journal Editorial Harshly Rebukes Trump |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/business/media/wall-street-journal-editorial-trump.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322202247/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/business/media/wall-street-journal-editorial-trump.html |archive-date=March 22, 2017 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/424877-wall-street-journal-editorial-conservatives-could-live-to-regret-trump/ |title=Wall Street Journal editorial: Conservatives 'could live to regret' Trump emergency declaration |first=John |last=Bowden |date=January 11, 2019 |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |access-date=April 16, 2024 |archive-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520053655/https://thehill.com/homenews/media/424877-wall-street-journal-editorial-conservatives-could-live-to-regret-trump/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Pete |last=Vernon |date=March 22, 2017 |url=https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/wsj_trump_editorial_opinion.php |title=Unpacking ''WSJ''{{'}}s 'watershed' Trump editorial |website=[[Columbia Journalism Review]] |issn=0010-194X |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621040535/https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/wsj_trump_editorial_opinion.php |archive-date=June 21, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> The newspaper has won 39 [[Pulitzer Prize]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=dowjones.com: ''The Wall Street Journal'' |url=https://www.dowjones.com/products/wsj/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209052436/https://www.dowjones.com/products/wsj/ |archive-date=December 9, 2022 |access-date=August 28, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2022 |title=National Reporting |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/209 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426232840/http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/209 |archive-date=April 26, 2017 |access-date=August 3, 2022 |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |quote=2019 β Staff of The Wall Street Journal: For uncovering President Trump's secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=2023 Pulitzer Prizes Winners & Finalists |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511004021/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2023 |archive-date=May 11, 2023 |access-date=May 10, 2023 |website=www.pulitzer.org}}</ref>
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