| Newspaper Name: |
The Wall Street Journal |
| Alternative Names: |
WSJ |
| Owner: |
News Corp |
| Publisher: |
Dow Jones & Company |
| Country / Region: |
USA (New York) |
| Language: |
English |
| Format type: |
Newspaper |
| Category: |
Business, finance, money |
| Political alignment: |
None |
| Frequency: |
Daily |
| Publication Years (print version): |
1889 — now (134 years) |
| Publication Years (digital version): |
1996 — now (27 years) |
| ISSN: |
0099-9660 |
| Circulation: |
2,617,000 (2015) |
| Official Pages: |
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| Official Apps: |
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| Website: |
wsj.com [read with translation] |
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«The Wall Street Journal» is a daily American authoritative financial and business newspaper in English language. Published in New York City since 1889 by Dow Jones & Company. «The Wall Street Journal» is considered «the largest and most influential American publication and the world's leading business publication». It is the largest-circulation daily newspaper in the United States, with a daily circulation of more than 2.5 million copies in 2019. The newspaper's name is directly related to the street and Wall Street area of New York, the financial center of the United States. The publication is often referred to simply as «Journal», although it is a large-format newspaper in its format.
The publication focuses on money and everything related to it. The newspaper's content primarily covers domestic business and financial events of the North American continent, various analytics, currency exchange rates and market quotes. The regular issue of the magazine consists of about 50 pages with different sections (depending on the day of the week): Section One (national events, corporate news, politics, economics, opinions), Marketplace (market reviews, technology, media, marketing), Money and Investing (analysis of international financial markets), Personal Journal (Personal Finance, Investments, Loans, Career), Off Duty (Entertainment, Fashion, Food, Travel, Science), Review (Reviews, Comments, Ideas), Mansion (real estate market).
In the publication you can find numerous author's materials from the world's leading analysts, financiers, economists, notes and reports, ratings and forecasts. Unfortunately, The Wall Street Journal is also known for its pseudoscientific articles and opinions that the newspaper publishes and develops for the sake of business — its pages once expressed doubts about the existence of: state budget deficits, immigration problems, ozone holes, acid rain, the process of warming the planet's climate, and so on. In short, the newspaper represents and expresses the views of the so-called «true Americanism», where financial gain is paramount and decisive over everything.
Other interesting features of the publication: since 1979 and to this day, the newspaper has resorted to photo retouching technology to make them more expressive, highlighting in them those parts that the reader should pay the most attention to; traditionally, it has a lot of American humor (not understood by everyone) and cartoons; «The Wall Street Journal» calls itself a «magazine», but it is a Broadsheet newspaper. The editorial board also publishes magazines: «Barron's» (weekly) and «WSJ.» (with a dot).
«The Wall Street Journal» is also available to readers in the European and Asian regions, with special editions published once a month. The newspaper has been available on the Internet since 1996 and at first was paid, today it is an independent publication with many services. «The Wall Street Journal» has won the Pulitzer Prize 33 times. This publication is also known for its authoritative financial weekly «
Barron's» and monthly magazine «WSJ. Magazine» about the «beautiful» and luxurious life.
