It is the bible of business circles. But to be handled with caution: on the one hand, high quality investigations and reports, with a concern for neutrality. On the other, very partisan editorial pages. The columnists and the editorial committee defend, often virulently, conservative points of view, even if the title has always maintained a certain distance from Donald Trump.
Awarded 39 Pulitzer Prizes, The WSJ is especially appreciated for its analyzes of financial markets and its monitoring of management and business trends. Since its acquisition in July 2007 by the News Corp. group. of Rupert Murdoch, the daily has however evolved towards a more general format in order to compete with The New York Times. A luxurious supplement on the art of living, called WSJ Magazine, was launched in September 2008.
Established in the financial district of New York since its creation in 1889, the editorial team left Wall Street in 2008 to establish itself a little further north, in Midtown, in the premises of News Corp. It includes a total of 1,800 journalists spread across nearly fifty countries.
With 600,000 paper subscribers, The Wall Street Journal has the largest circulation of daily newspapers in the United States. And even if he is behind The New York Times in terms of online subscribers, it still has more than 3 million, and more than 65 million unique visitors per month, making it the largest paid economic and financial information site on the web.
