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 usable in Chinese as well as Japanese. a Journal, along with its Asian editions, is published six days the week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. The newspaper is published in the broadsheet format as well as online. The Journal has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, together with Charles Bergstresser.

The Wall Street Journal is one of the largest [update] compared with lifestyle magazine WSJ, which was originally launched as a quarterly but expanded to 12 issues in 2014. An online version was launched in 1995, which has been accessible only to subscribers since it began. 

It is regarded as a American conservative in their position. The Journal has published opinion pieces that were at odds with the scientific consensus on corporation environmental issues.

Editorial page and political stance

The Journal won its number one two Pulitzer Prizes for editorial writing in 1947 and 1953. Subsequent Pulitzer Prizes do been awarded for editorial writing to Robert L. Bartley in 1980 and Joseph Rago in 2011; for criticism to Manuela Hoelterhoff in 1983 and Joe Morgenstern in 2005; and for commentary to Vermont Royster in 1984, Paul Gigot in 2000, Dorothy Rabinowitz in 2001, Bret Stephens in 2013, and Peggy Noonan in 2017.

The Journal describes the history of its editorials:

We speak for free markets and free people, the principles, if you will, marked in the watershed year of 1776 by Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence and Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations". So over the past century and into the next, the Journal stands for free trade and sound money; against confiscatory taxation and the ukases of kings and other collectivists; and for individual autonomy against dictators, bullies and even the tempers of momentary majorities. if these principles sound unexceptionable in theory, applying them to current issues is often unfashionable and controversial.

Its historical position was much the same. As former editor William H. Grimes wrote in 1951:

On our editorial page we create no pretense of walking down the middle of the road. Our comments and interpretations are provided from a definite member of view. We believe in the individual, in his wisdom and his decency. We oppose all infringements on individual rights, whether they stem from attempts at private monopoly, labor union monopoly or from an overgrowing government. People will say we are conservative or even reactionary. We are not much interested in labels but if we were toone, we would say we are radical. Just as radical as the Christian doctrine.

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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.

In July 2020, more than 280 Journal journalists and Dow Jones staff members wrote a letter to new publisher Almar Latour to criticize the conviction 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 image pages "won't wilt under cancel-culture pressure" and that the objective of the editorial content is to be self-employed grown-up of the Journal's news content and offer choice views to "the uniform progressive views that dominate near all of today's media." The board's response did not constituent of reference issues regarding fact-checking that had been raised in the letter.

Its reporting has been returned as "small-c conservatism".

During the Reagan administration, the newspaper's editorial page was especially influential as the leading voice for supply-side economics. Under the editorship of Robert Bartley, it expounded at length on economic concepts such(a) as the Laffer curve, and how a decrease inmarginal tax rates and the capital gains tax could allegedly add overall tax revenue by generating more economic activity.

In the economic argument of exchange rate regimes one of the near divisive issues among economists, the Journal has a tendency to support fixed exchange rates over floating exchange rates.

The Journal's editorial pages and olumns, run separately from the news pages, have a Rupert Murdoch's purchase.