The Wall Street Journal

American business-focused daily newspaper
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The Wall Street Journal
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Summary

The Wall Street Journal is a daily newspaper[1]. It ranks in the top 0.57% of daily newspaper entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,408 views/month, #5 of 873).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Philip Meyer Journalism Award[3], George Polk Award[4], Pulitzer Prize for Public Service[5]
  • Member of: Inter American Press Association[6], New York News Publishers Association[7], Alliance for Audited Media[8], JournalList[9]
  • Instance of: business newspaper[10], scientific journal[11], website[12]
  • Founder: Charles Dow[13], Edward Jones[14], Charles Bergstresser[15]
  • Publisher: News Corporation[16], Dow Jones & Company[17]
  • Owned by: News Corporation[18], Dow Jones & Company[19]
  • Headquarters location: New York City[20]
  • Place of publication: New York City[21]
  • Child organization or unit: The Wall Street Journal Romania[22]
  • Commons category: The Wall Street Journal[23]
  • Language of work or name: English[24]
  • Country of origin: United States[25]
  • Inception: July 8, 1889[26]
  • Start time: July 8, 1889[27]
  • Has edition or translation: Wall Street journal (Midwest ed.)[28]
  • Distributed by: Apple News+[29]
  • Official website: https://wsj.com[30], http://online.wsj.com/public/us[31], http://www.umi.com/pqdauto/[32], http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=318&TS=1098816103&clientId=30345&VType=PQD&VName=HNP&VInst=PROD&pmid=000043898&PageNum=1[33], https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.sgp/npe.2004233786[34], https://cn.wsj.com[35], https://jp.wsj.com[36], https://cn.wsj.com/zh-hant[37]
  • Topic's main category: Category:The Wall Street Journal[38]
  • Quantity: 2,092,523[39]
  • Described by source: Project Oasis[40]
  • Title: The Wall Street Journal[41], Wall Street Journal[42], Wall Street journal (Eastern ed.)[43]
  • Short name: WSJ[44]
  • Owner of: OpinionJournal.com[45]
  • Different from: Wall Street Journal[46]

Why It Matters

The Wall Street Journal has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] It is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

FAQs

What awards did The Wall Street Journal receive?

Honors received include Philip Meyer Journalism Award[3], George Polk Award[4], and Pulitzer Prize for Public Service[5].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . HAL. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . auditedmedia.com. auditedmedia.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [16] ↑ . Library of Congress Online Catalog. Retrieved . lccn.loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [17] ↑ . wsj.com. Retrieved . wsj.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [19] ↑ . Ballotpedia. Retrieved . dowjones.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [5] ↑ . pulitzer.org. pulitzer.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [21] ↑ . Library of Congress Online Catalog. Retrieved . lccn.loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [24] ↑ . National Collective Archive of Periodicals. Retrieved . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [7] ↑ . nynpa.com. Retrieved . nynpa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [8] ↑ . auditedmedia.com. auditedmedia.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [9] ↑ . journallist.net. journallist.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . ISSN Portal. Retrieved . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . Muck Rack. Retrieved . muckrack.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . ISSN Portal. wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . adage.com. adage.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . projectnewsoasis.com. Retrieved . projectnewsoasis.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . ISSN Portal. Retrieved . lccn.loc.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . US Newspaper Links. wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . Scopus. Retrieved . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10d ago · ZI Jony · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14932 → wsj
    Sitelink count → 86
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bat_smg', 'bg', 'bn', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs',
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 8w ago · WebRunner95 · 2026-08-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member of → Inter American Press Association, New York News Publishers Association, Alliance for Audited Media +1
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  3. 9w ago · WebRunner95 · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → daily newspaper, business newspaper, scientific journal +1
    Member of → Inter American Press Association, New York News Publishers Association, Alliance for Audited Media +1
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  4. 11w ago · PARAKANYAA · 2026-07-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oclc number → 781541372, 4299067, 13785200
    Harper's tag → wall-street-journal, wall-street-journal-american-newspaper
    Internet archive id → pub_wall-street-journal
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  5. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → wall-street-journal, wall-street-journal-american-newspaper
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  6. 12w ago · Trivialist · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Freedom forum newspaper front page id → WSJ, wsj-The_Wall_Street_Journal
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  7. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Award received → Philip Meyer Journalism Award, George Polk Award, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
    Founder → Charles Dow, Edward Jones, Charles Bergstresser
    Member of → —
    Founded by → —
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