The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal has been printed continuously, since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. It is one of the largest newspapers in the United States by circulation, with a circulation of about 2. 834 million copies as of August 2019. The newspaper has won 37 Pulitzer Prizes.
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The Wall Street Journal is an American business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The Journal has been printed continuously, since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. It is one of the largest newspapers in the United States by circulation, with a circulation of about 2. 834 million copies as of August 2019. The newspaper has won 37 Pulitzer Prizes. The editorial pages of the Journal are typically conservative in their position. The editorial board has promoted views that differ from the scientific consensus on climate change, acid rain, and ozone depletion, as well as on the health harms of second-hand smoke, pesticides and asbestos. The Journal publishes the luxury news and lifestyle magazine WSJ, which was originally launched as a quarterly but expanded to 12 issues as of 2014. In 2007, News Corp. acquired Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp., for $1.2 billion. The Wall Street journal is published six days a week in English, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The paper is published in the broadsheet format and online. In 1896, The Dow Jones Industrial Average was officially launched. It was the first of several indices of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1999, Dow Jones bought the Ottaway newspaper chain, which at the time comprised nine dailies and three Sunday newspapers. Later, the name was changed to Dow Jones Local Media Group.
In 2003, the Journal’s digital subscription has risen to 1 million, behind only USA Today’s 1.7 million. Since September 2018, the number of digital subscribers has fallen to 3 million, falling to 2 million as of September 2018. The number of print and online subscribers together in Audit Bureau of Circulations has fallen from two million to two hundred and ninety-five thousand as of September 18, 2018, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations and the Journal’s annual announcement on September 24, 2018. In 2011, WSJ Weekend Indexes was launched, with the Dow Jones Indexes being the most popular market index in the world. In 2012, Dow Dow Jones began reporting to integrate reporting of Dow Jones and Dow Jones Newswires. In 2013, The WSJ weekend indexes were launched, along with Dow Jones Weekend Edition, a luxury lifestyle magazine. In 2014, The Wall Wall Journal Weekend Index was launched. In 2015, TheWSJ Weekend index was launched and was the second most popular weekly market index after The New York Times. In 2016, the WSJ Sunday Index was introduced, followed by the Wall Street Sunday Index. In 2017, The Journal Sunday Edition was launched to coincide with the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In 2018, TheWallStreet.com became the world’s largest online news site, with more than 1.5 million visitors a day. In the U.S. and Europe, it is the largest paid-subscription news site.
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