The Wall Street Journal is a must-read for business circles. However, it should be handled with caution: on one hand, there are high-quality investigations and reports, with a focus on neutrality. On the other hand, there are highly partisan editorial pages. The columnists and editorial board often strongly defend conservative points of view, even though the title has always maintained a certain distance from Donald Trump.
Awarded around forty Pulitzer Prizes, The WSJ is especially appreciated for its analyses of financial markets and its coverage of management and business trends. Since its acquisition in July 2007 by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. group, the newspaper has evolved towards a more generalist formula to compete with The New York Times. A luxurious lifestyle supplement called WSJ Magazine was launched in September 2008.
Located in New York’s financial district since its creation in 1889, the editorial team left Wall Street in 2008 to move a little further north to Midtown, in the News Corp. offices. It comprises a total of 1,800 journalists spread across more than fifty countries.
With 468,000 paper subscribers by the end of the first semester of 2024, The Wall Street Journal has the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the United States. And even though it is behind The New York Times in terms of online subscribers, it still had nearly 4.3 million total subscribers (paper and web) at that time.
