
They were later aggregated in a printed daily summary called the Customers' Afternoon Letter. The first products of Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of the Journal, were brief news bulletins, nicknamed flimsies, hand-delivered throughout the day to traders at the stock exchange in the early 1880s. President Ronald Reagan interviewed by The Wall Street Journal in the Oval Office in February 1985 Vladimir Putin with Wall Street Journal correspondent Karen Elliott House in 2002 ( July 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įounding and 19th century Front page of the first issue of The Wall Street Journal on JU.S. Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective and add more content related to non-recent events. This article or section appears to be slanted towards recent events.

The editorial pages of the Journal are typically conservative in their positions. An online version was launched in 1995, which has been accessible only to subscribers since it began. The Journal publishes the luxury news and lifestyle magazine WSJ, which was originally launched as a quarterly but expanded to 12 issues in 2014. The Wall Street Journal is the second-largest newspaper in the United States by circulation, with a print circulation of around 654,000 and 3 million digital subscribers as of 2022. The newspaper has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent in 2023. The Journal has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, and is regarded as a newspaper of record, particularly in terms of business and financial news. The newspaper is published in broadsheet format and online. The Journal is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp.


The Wall Street Journal is an American business and economic-focused international daily newspaper based in New York City.
