The Wall Street Journal. is a business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in
New York City. The
Journal is published six days a week by
Dow Jones & Company, a division of
News Corp, along with its
Asian and
European editions.
The Wall Street Journal is the largest
newspaper in the United States by circulation. According to the
Alliance for Audited Media, the
Journal had a circulation of about 2.4 million copies (including nearly 900,000 digital subscriptions), as of March 2013, compared with
USA Todays 1.7 million.
The Wall Street Journal has won 39
Pulitzer Prizes through 2015 and derives its name from
Wall Street in the heart of the
Financial District of
Lower Manhattan. The
Journal has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by
Charles Dow,
Edward Jones, and
Charles Bergstresser.