The Wall Street Journal

Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser founded Dow Jones in 1882. In 1883 it began publishing the Customers’ Afternoon Letter, the newspaper’s predecessor.⁠[3]

The first issue appeared on July 8, 1889, with four pages priced at two cents. Charles Bergstresser proposed the name; its early distribution centered on the area around Broad and Wall streets in New York.⁠[4]

Clarence W. Barron and his wife Jessie Waldron bought Dow Jones in 1902. After Barron died in 1928, Hugh Bancroft succeeded him as company president.⁠[3]

Bernard Kilgore became managing editor in 1941 and broadened the paper beyond narrowly focused financial news toward national business and its effects on readers’ lives. He emphasized trends, accessible language and anecdotal storytelling. Circulation exceeded one million by his death in 1967.⁠[5]

The Asian Wall Street Journal launched in 1976, followed by The Wall Street Journal Europe in 1983.⁠[3]

The Interactive Edition launched in 1996, delivering news over the internet and succeeding the 1995 Money & Investing Update. The publication subsequently developed reading products for phones and tablets.⁠[4]

The staff won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting for coverage of the 2001 terrorist attack on New York, including the events and their implications.⁠[6]

The newspaper won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for investigating executive stock-option backdating. The prize citation credited the work with prompting investigations, executive departures and corporate changes. Contributors included Charles Forelle, James Bandler, Mark Maremont, Steve Stecklow and Gary Putka.⁠[7]

News Corporation completed its acquisition of Dow Jones. Common shareholders could elect $60 in cash or 2.8681 Class B common units of Ruby Newco LLC per share. At closing, Dow Jones became a wholly owned subsidiary of Ruby Newco.⁠[8]

The former News Corporation separated into 21st Century Fox and the new News Corp. Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal formed part of the new News Corp’s portfolio.⁠[9]

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Testing Theranos, credited to John Carreyrou, Michael Siconolfi and Christopher Weaver, won the 2016 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting. The newspaper also won categories that year for its Dow-DuPont merger coverage, Tom Hayes feature, investigation into Malaysian funds and Joanna Stern’s videos.⁠[11]

Almar Latour succeeded William Lewis as Dow Jones CEO and publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Announced on May 4, the appointment took effect on May 15. He had led Barron’s Group and previously managed WSJ.com and Asia-Pacific news operations.⁠[12]

Emma Tucker succeeded Matt Murray as editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. The December 2022 announcement set her start date as February 1, 2023, with Murray assisting the transition until March 1.⁠[13]

Russia correspondent Evan Gershkovich was detained while reporting in Yekaterinburg. His family, the newspaper and diplomats subsequently worked for his release, while the Journal continued investigating Russia’s detention of foreigners and prisoner exchanges.⁠[14]

The staff won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for exposing financial conflicts among officials at 50 U.S. federal agencies. The investigation examined ownership and trading of shares in regulated companies using financial disclosures from 2016–2021.⁠[15][16]

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Evan Gershkovich was released in a multinational prisoner exchange after 491 days in Russian custody. Journal reporters witnessed the handover in Ankara and published an investigation of the secret negotiations.⁠[14]

Khadeeja Safdar and Joe Palazzolo published an investigation of Jeffrey Epstein’s 2003 birthday album, reporting that it included a letter bearing Donald Trump’s name. Trump denied writing it. The broader reporting on Epstein’s network became a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.⁠[18]

Federal Judge Darrin Gayles dismissed Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit, filed in July 2025 over the birthday-album coverage, while allowing an amended complaint. The ruling concerned whether actual malice was adequately pleaded, rather than establishing that Trump wrote the letter. Dow Jones stood by its reporting.⁠[19]

Dow Jones, News Corp and the other defendants moved to dismiss Trump’s first amended complaint and sought attorneys’ fees and costs. These were requests by the defendants, not a court ruling granting them.⁠[20]

For the quarter ended June 30, 2026, The Wall Street Journal averaged 4.827 million total subscriptions, including 4.465 million digital-only subscriptions, up 6% and 8% respectively. Digital-only subscriptions represented approximately 93% of the total. These are quarterly average subscriptions, not unique readers.⁠[21]

Emma Tucker leads News and Paul Gigot leads Opinion. The departments operate separately and report to Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour.⁠[2]

The Wall Street Journal: Official website: https://www.wsj.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[1]

X: Public account: https://x.com/WSJ (opens in a new window).⁠[22]

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