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The WSJ has several media platforms, including a daily print paper, web access, tablet and smartphone app editions. The paper has international editions in Asia, Europe, India, Latin America and Brazil.

The Wall Street Journal was founded in New York in 1889 by Edward Jones, Charles Bergstresser and Charles Dow, who wanted to deliver news to the Wall Street Stock Exchange. Bergstresser joined the journalists in 1889.

The three men saw a problem in the reporting of financial news and began their news business in the basement of a lower Manhattan candy store.

Murdoch's purchase of the WSJ changed the content. The journal's coverage of international affairs increased by seven percent and business coverage dropped by 16 percent; politics went from nearly five percent to making up for about 18 percent of the newspaper's content. Another change under Murdoch's leadership was the departure from the signature WSJ front page, which had, since its inception, been columns of print, to the introduction of large photos. In part, these changes have been credited to Murdoch's desire to rival The New York Times. In 2010, the WSJ introduced Greater New York, which focused on regional news.

Murdoch's purchase of the WSJ has been criticized by Joe Nocera of The New York Times, who wrote in 2011 that the Journal was turned into a propaganda vehicle for Murdoch's conservative views.

News Corp was involved in a phone hacking inquiry. The WSJ was the first to report on a story. The investigation involved the hacking into the voicemails belonging to September 11 victims by News Corp employees. The WSJ was not involved in the incident, but David Folkenflik of NPR argued, in his book Murdoch's World that editors attempted to impede WSJ coverage of the incident. The WSJ released a press statement stating that they covered the story aggressively.

The WSJ has circulation and demographic information.

Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm launched two John Doe investigations into the activities of staff and associates of Gov. Scott Walker. These investigations and the events surrounding them have been described as the most tumultuous political events in Wisconsin in the past.

The first investigation, John Doe I, was launched after Walker aide Darlene Wink noticed funds were missing from the money raised at the annual Operation Freedom event. The case was turned over to the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office.

The case was investigated by the office of the district attorney over a year. By this time, Walker had announced his candidacy. On May 5, 2010, Bruce Landgraf asked for the authority to investigate the missing money.

He asked the John Doe to determine where the funds came from. Judge Neal Nettesheim was appointed the John Doe I judge.

Walker's county executive staff and a Walker donor were included in the John Doe investigation multiple times. Property, such as computers and cell phones, was seized during the raids of the homes, offices and cars of these people. The investigation lasted three years and resulted in the convictions of six people, four of whom weren't related to the missing funds on which the investigation was predicated. The charges against the six were announced in January of 2012 in the midst of the effort to recall Gov. Walker.

The recall election was held on June 5, 2012 to remove Gov. Walker. Walker won re-election by a bigger margin than he had when he first won the office.

The first John Doe investigation was rolled into a second one. The investigation was based on a theory that the campaign of Governor Walker had coordinated with conservative social welfare groups that were involved in issue advocacy during the recall elections.

An appointed judge and a special prosecutor oversaw the consolidated investigation of the second John Doe. During the early morning hours of October 3, investigators served search warrants on several homes and subpoenaed conservative organizations' records. Three targets of the subpoenas filed a motion to have the subpoenas quashed.

The judge overseeing the investigation granted the motion in January of 2014, stating that the prosecutor's theory of criminal activity was not criminal under Wisconsin statutes. The investigation was effectively stopped because Schmitz filed an appeal to a higher court.

A series of lawsuits were filed, one against the John Doe prosecutors for a violation of free speech and several others against the agency that oversees campaign finance law, the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board (GAB), for trying to enforce unconstitutional regulations of issue advocacy groups , the regulations on which the prosecutor's theory was based.

The investigation went before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled in a 4-2 decision to stop the John Doe II investigation.

The three cases were combined into one and the court ruled on all of them. The Supreme Court criticized Schmitz's handling of the case and declared that the actions of Chisholm and Schmitz were violations of the targets' First Amendment rights to political speech.

The Supreme Court, in interpreting Wisconsin's campaign finance law, ruled "that the definition of 'political purposes' is unconstitutionally overbroad and vague under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 1, Section 3 of the Wisconsin Constitution because its language 'is so sweeping that its sanctions may be applied to constitutionally protected conduct which the state is not permitted to regulate.'"

The court noted that issue advocacy is beyond the reach of the state. The theory of illegal coordination between Walker's campaign and social welfare groups was not valid. The court declared that the special prosecutor's legal theory was not supported in either reason or law.

The court affirmed the original motion to quash the subpoenas in the other two cases addressed in the ruling. It also ruled that the John Doe II judges, Peterson and Barbara Kluka before him, had not "violated a plain legal duty" by allowing the appointment of one judge and one special prosecutor to preside over a multi-county John Doe, though the court did concede "the circumstances surrounding the formation of the John Doe investigation raise serious concerns."

The court ordered that everything gathered as potential evidence, including thousands of pages of emails and other documents, be returned and all copies be destroyed.

The court's decision closes a divisive chapter in Wisconsin history, according to the Attorney General.

The Wall Street Journal published an editorial in November of last year. Eric O'Keefe, one of the targets of the second John Doe investigation, came forward to tell about what he thought of the investigators' targeting of conservative organizations. The Wisconsin Club for Growth was one of the targets of the investigation.

The first time any of the targets spoke publicly about the investigations was in this story. The investigations were covered by the Wall Street Journal.

The Wall Street Journal is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The Journal, along with its Asian editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. The newspaper is published in the broadsheet format and online. The Journal has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The Journal is regarded as a newspaper of record, particularly in terms of business and financial news. The newspaper has won 38 Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent in 2019.

The Wall Street Journal has a circulation of 2,834 million copies, which is more than USA Today's 1.7 million. WSJ, a luxury news and lifestyle magazine, was originally launched as a quarterly, but was expanded to 12 issues in the year of 2015.

The Journal's editorial pages are typically conservative in their positions, but an online version has been accessible to subscribers since 1995.

The first products of the Journal were hand-delivered to traders at the stock exchange in the early 1880s. The Customers' Afternoon Letter was a daily summary. The first edition of The Wall Street Journal was published on July 8, 1889, and was delivered via telegraph.

The "Dow Jones Industrial Average" was launched in 1896.

The New York Stock Exchange had several stock and bond prices that day. The Journal's Review & Outlook column was first written in 1899 and is still running today.

The company's circulation peaked at 50,000 by the end of the 1920s, but it was Clarence Barron who purchased control for US$123,000 in 1902.

The early days of business journalism were marked by an atmosphere of fearless, independent financial reporting. The stock market crash of Black Tuesday, a year before the start of the Great Depression in the United States, led to the founding of the United States's premier financial weekly, Barron's. The company would remain in the control of the family until 2007.

During the 1940s, the United States and its financial institutions in New York experienced industrial expansion, which led to the rise of The Journal. In 1941, Bernard Kilgore was named managing editor of the paper, and in 1945 he was the company CEO. The paper's circulation went from 33,000 in 1941 to 1.1 million in 1967, thanks to Kilgore's national distribution strategy and the design of the front-page design. The paper won the Pulitzer Prize for editorials in 1947 under Kilgore.

In 1967, the news organization began to place its journalists in every major financial center in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, and Africa.

In 1970, the Ottaway newspaper chain was bought by the Jones family. The name was changed to the local media group.

The period from 1971 to 1997 saw the launch of "Factiva", The Wall Street Journal Asia, The Wall Street Journal Europe, and the WSJ.com website.

News Corp. acquired the newspaper publisher, The Wall Street Journal. WSJ was launched in 2008.

A complement to the print newspaper, The Wall Street Journal Online, was launched in 1996 and has allowed access only by subscription from the beginning. In 2003, Dow Jones began to integrate reporting of the Journal's print and online subscribers together in Audit Bureau of Circulations statements. In 2007, it was commonly believed to be the largest paid-subscription news site on the Web, with 980,000 paid subscribers. Since then, digital subscription has risen to 1.3 million as of September 2018, falling to number two behind The New York Times with 3 million digital subscriptions. In May 2008, an annual subscription to the online edition of The Wall Street Journal cost $119 for those who do not have subscriptions to the print edition. By June 2013, the monthly cost for a subscription to the online edition was $22.99, or $275.88 annually, excluding introductory offers. Digital subscription rates increased dramatically as its popularity increased over print to $443.88 per year, with first time subscribers paying $187.20 per year.

Pulitzer Prize–winning stories from 1995 are available for free on the Pulitzer web site.

The Journal returned to Saturday publication in September 2005 after a 50 year hiatus. The move was designed to get more consumer advertising.

In 2005, the Journal reported a readership profile of 60 percent top management, an average income of $191,000, and an average age of 55.

In 2007, the Journal launched a worldwide expansion of its website. The paper was interested in buying the Financial Times.

The period at the end is unique to the nameplate.

On September 5, 2006 front-page advertising was reintroduced.

The European and Asian editions had similar introductions in 2005.

After presenting nearly identical front-page layouts for half a century—always six columns, with the day's top stories in the first and sixth columns, "What's News" digest in the second and third, the "A-hed" feature story in the fourth (with 'hed' being jargon for headline) and themed weekly reports in the fifth column – the paper in 2007 decreased its broadsheet width from 15 to 12 inches while keeping the length at 223⁄4 inches, to save newsprint costs . The changes were worked on by Mario Garcia. Dow Jones said it would save US$18 million a year in newsprint costs across all The Wall Street Journal papers. This move eliminated one column of print, pushing the "A-hed" out of its traditional location (though the paper now usually includes a quirky feature story on the right side of the front page, sandwiched among the lead stories).

The paper uses ink dot drawings called hedcuts, introduced in 1979 and originally created by Kevin Sprouls, in addition to photographs, a method of illustration considered a consistent visual signature of the paper. the Journal still heavily employs the use of caricatures, including those by illustrator Ken Fallin, such as when Peggy Noonan memorialized then-recently deceased newsman Tim Russert. The use of color photographs and graphics has become increasingly common in recent years with the addition of more "lifestyle" sections.

The daily won the best designed newspaper award in 1994 and 1997.

News Corporation made an offer of US$60 a share for the stock that had been selling for US$33 a share.

The family that controls more than half of the voting stock initially rejected the offer, but later reconsidered.

Three months later, on August 1, 2007, News Corporation and Dow Jones entered into a definitive merger agreement. The US$5 billion sale added The Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch's news empire, which already included Fox News Channel, financial network unit and London's The Times, and locally within New York, the New York Post, along with Fox flagship station WNYW (Channel 5) and MyNetworkTV flagship WWOR (Channel 9).

On December 13, 2007, shareholders representing more than 60 percent of the voting stock of the company voted to approve the acquisition by News Corporation.

The Journal's news and opinion sections would retain their editorial independence from News Corporation, according to an editorial page column.

The paper's editorial integrity was monitored by a special committee.

News Corporation was accused of violating its agreement by not notifying the committee earlier when Marcus Brauchli resigned. Brauchli said that new owners should have their own editor.

Murdoch was accused in a Journal article of making and breaking similar promises. Murdoch has long expressed his personal, political and business biases through his newspapers and television stations, according to a large shareholder.

Fred Emery was an assistant editor at the Times when Mr. Murdoch threatened to fire Harold Evans. Mr. Emery told Mr. Murdoch that editors couldn't be fired without the approval of the independent directors. You don't take all that seriously, do you? Mr. Emery said that Mr. Murdoch answered. Murdoch forced Evans out.

Evidence was found that the Journal artificially inflated its European sales numbers by paying the Executive Learning Partnership for 16% of European sales. The inflated sales numbers enabled the Journal to charge inflated advertising rates, as the advertisers would think they reached more readers than they actually did. In addition, the Journal agreed to run "articles" featuring Executive Learning Partnership, presented as news, but effectively advertising. The case came to light after a Belgian Wall Street Journal employee, Gert Van Mol, informed Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton about the questionable practice. As a result, the then Wall Street Journal Europe CEO and Publisher Andrew Langhoff was fired after it was found out he personally pressured journalists into covering one of the newspaper's business partners involved in the issue. Since September 2011, all the online articles that resulted from the ethical wrongdoing carry a Wall Street Journal disclaimer informing the readers about the circumstances in which they were created.

News Corporation spun off the businesses of The Journal and its parent company, as News Corp.

The Journal's editor-in-chief,Gerard Baker, announced layoffs of staff and consolidation of its print sections in November of 2016 to cut costs.

The "Money & Investing" section was combined with the " Business & Finance" section. "Personal Journal" and "Arena" were removed from the new "Life & Arts" section.

The Journal's "Greater New York" coverage was reduced and moved to the main section of the paper.

The Wall Street Journal was ranked the most trusted news organization by Americans.

The paper's combination of respected news pages and conservative editorial pages seem to be a magic formula for generating trust across the ideological spectrum, according to a report by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University.

The "Personal Journal" section branding was brought back in July 2020.

The Journal provided content for the News Tab on Facebook.

The Journal was paid $10 million by Facebook during that time, which was used to shift away from news content.

The Journal launched a product review website called Buy Side in June of 2022.

The Journal has been published in many different sections.

In the past, the Journal's page count averaged as much as 96 pages an issue, but with the decline in advertising, the Journal in 2009–10 more typically published about 50 to 60 pages per issue.

The Wall Street Journal had a large news staff.

There are 85 news bureaus in 51 countries.

There are sections that are scheduled regularly.

Several columnists contribute features to the Journal opinion page.

On Fridays, the Journal publishes an op-ed titled "Houses of Worship" written by a different author each week. The Dalai Lama is one of the authors.

W.S.J. is a luxury magazine. It covers art, fashion, entertainment, design, food, architecture, travel and more.

Omblyne Pelier is the publisher.

Launched as a quarterly in 2008, the magazine grew to 12 issues a year for 2014. The magazine is distributed within the U.S. Weekend Edition of The Wall Street Journal newspaper (average paid print circulation is +2.2 million*), the European and Asian editions, and is available on WSJ.com. The Wall Street Journal's iPad app has each issue available throughout the month.

Gisele Bndchen, Penélope Cruz, and Woody Allen are just a few of the celebrities featured on the cover.

The magazine launched its signature platform, The Innovator Awards, in 2012

The awards ceremony, held in New York City at the Museum of Modern Art, honors visionaries across the fields of design, fashion, architecture, humanitarianism, art and technology. The winners of the year were: Alice Waters, Do-Ho Suh, David Adjaye, Nick D'Aloisio, Pat McGrath, and Thomas Woltz.

WSJ was awarded by Adweek in 2013). "Hottest lifestyle magazine of the year" is the title.

The editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal are featured on OpinionJournal.com.

When it was merged into the main website, it was separate from the news content.

wsj.com has editorials and columns from the printed newspaper, as well as two daily web-only columns.

The Journal's conservative political editorial line is reflected in the editorials, as are the regular columnists.

WSJ Noted., a monthly digital "news and culture" magazine for subscribers aged 18–34 years old, was launched by the Journal on June 30, 2020.

A group of 7,000 young adults are invited to preview content, provide feedback, and join Q&As with Noted staff.

The WSJ has a service that delivers audio and transcripts with several channel streams, as well as a podcasts service.

The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal is in charge of the newspaper's editorial page. The Wall Street Journal doesn't give any information on the duties of board members.

Three editorial page writers and host Paul Gigot, editor of the Editorial Page, appear on Fox News Channel's Journal Editorial Report to discuss current issues with guests. Vermont C. Royster and Robert L. Bartley were influential in providing a conservative interpretation of the news.

Contrasts have been noted between the Journal's news reporting and its editorial pages. "While Journal reporters keep busy reporting readers," wrote one reporter in 1982, "Journal editorial writers put forth views that often contradict the paper's best reporting and news analysis." Two summaries published in 1995 by the progressive blog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, and in 1996 by the Columbia Journalism Review criticized the Journal's editorial page for inaccuracy during the 1980s and 1990s. The editorial pages were described as "neoconservative" by one reference work in 2011.

In July 2020, more than 280 Journal journalists and Dow Jones staff members wrote a letter to new publisher Almar Latour to criticize the opinion pages' "lack of fact-checking and transparency, and its apparent disregard for evidence", adding that "opinion articles often make assertions that are contradicted by WSJ reporting." The editorial board responded that its opinion pages "won't wilt under cancel-culture pressure" and that the objective of the editorial content is to be independent of the Journal's news content and offer alternative views to "the uniform progressive views that dominate nearly all of today's media." The board's response did not address issues regarding fact-checking that had been raised in the letter.

The editorial page of the newspaper was the leading voice for supply-side economics during the Reagan administration.

The Laffer curve and how a decrease in certain marginal tax rates and the capital gains tax could allegedly increase overall tax revenue was expounded on by it under the editorship of Robert Bartley.

The Journal supports fixed exchange rates over floating exchange rates in its economic argument of exchange rate regimes.

The Journal's editorial pages and columns are conservative and influential in conservative circles, but they have not endorsed a candidate since 1928.

The editorial board has been in favor of a pro-business immigration policy.

The Journal's editorial page has been critical of Barack Obama's presidency. In particular, it has been a prominent critic of the Affordable Care Act legislation passed in 2010, and has featured many opinion columns attacking various aspects of the bill. The Journal's editorial page has also criticized the Obama administration's energy policies and foreign policy.

On October 25, 2017, the editorial board called for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to resign from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and accused Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign of colluding with Russia. In December 2017, the editorial board repeated its calls for Mueller's resignation. The editorials by the editorial board caused fractures within The Wall Street Journal, as reporters say that the editorials undermine the paper's credibility.

The editorial board allowed former President Donald Trump to write a letter in the paper. The Journal's editorial board said the criticism was "cancel-culture pressure" after the news sources described the letter as false.

The Journal editorial pages were described as a "forum for climate change denial" in 2011 due to columns that attacked climate scientists and accused them of engaging in fraud. A 2011 study found that the Journal was alone among major American print news media in how, mainly in its editorial pages, it adopted a false balance that overplayed the uncertainty in climate science or denied anthropogenic climate change altogether. That year, the Associated Press described the Journal's editorial pages as "a place friendly to climate change skeptics". In 2013, the editorial board and other opinion writers vocally criticized President Obama's plan to address climate change, mostly without mentioning climate science. A 2015 study found The Wall Street Journal was the newspaper that was least likely to present negative effects of global warming among several newspapers. It was the most likely to present negative economic framing when discussing climate change mitigation policies, as they tended to take the stance that the cost of such policies generally outweighs their benefit.

Climate Feedback, a fact-checking website on media coverage of climate science, determined that multiple opinion articles range between "low" and "very low" in terms of scientific credibility. The Partnership for Responsible Growth stated in 2016 that 14% of the guest editorials on climate change presented the results of "mainstream climate science", while the majority did not.

The Wall Street Journal editorials on climate change since 1997 have not conceded that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of climate change.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Journal published numerous columns opposing and misrepresenting the scientific consensus on the harms of second-hand smoke, acid rain, and ozone depletion, in addition to public policy efforts to curb pesticides and asbestos. The Journal later recognized that efforts to curb acid rain through cap-and-trade had been successful, a decade after the Clean Air Act Amendments.