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Wall Street Journal
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The Wall Street Journal, an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, is owned by News Corporation, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
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Editors
As of January 2010:
On the editorial side are:
- Paul Gigot is the Editorial Page editor;[1]
- Robert Pollock is The Editorial Features editor, in charge of op-eds;[2]
- Timothy Lemmer is the Letters editor[2]
On the news side are:[3]
- Robert Thomson, Editor-in-Chief, Dow Jones & Company; Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
- Gerard Baker, Deputy Editor-in-Chief The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones & Company
- Jeffrey Ball, Environment Editor and Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
- Rebecca Blumenstein, Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal Online
- John Bussey, Washington Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal
- Laura Landro, Assistant Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
- Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor, Executive Editor, Online, The Wall Street Journal
- Gerald F. Seib, Assistant Managing Editor, Executive Washington Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Ownership, circulation and history
The paper was owned by Dow Jones & Company until 2007, when that company was acquired by News Corporation. As of October 2009, its daily circulation is over two million, including over 350,000 electronic subscribers. Based on these new figures reported by Editor & Publisher magazine, its total circulation has now exceeded USA Today giving it the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States. USA Today remains number one in total print circulation, despite a 17% decline in the first half of 2009 to a circulation of 1.88 million.[4]
The newspaper has been printed continuously since July 8, 1889, and has won the Pulitzer Prize twenty-six times.
Subject matter
Nicknamed The Journal, this newspaper primarily covers U.S. and international business and financial news and issues. In fact, the paper's name comes from Wall Street, the street in New York which is the heart of the business district.
News vs. editorial
The Journal has enjoyed the reputation of being a generally reliable source of news. Its editorial pages are considered far less reliable on matters of fact [5] and solidly right-wing, although it regularly gives one weekly opinion column spot to an opposing view, as with the slot formerly held by the liberal Al Hunt and now held by a populist, Thomas Frank, who wrote What's the Matter with Kansas How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.[6] The editorial pages commonly publish global warming skeptic op-eds and pieces by U.S. and world leaders with conservative views such as Russian president Vladimir Putin and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Contact details
- Official Web site: http://www.wsj.com
Books
- Francis X. Dealy, The Power and the Money: Inside the Wall Street Journal, Jr. Birch Lane Press, June 1993. ISBN 1559721189
Articles and Resources
Related SourceWatch Resources
References
- ↑ Paul Gigot - News, Articles, Biography, Photos. WSJ.com. Retrieved on 2010-01-13. “Paul Gigot is the editorial page editor and vice president of The Wall Street Journal, a position he has held since 2001. He is responsible for the newspaper's editorials, op-ed articles and Leisure & Arts criticism and directs the editorial pages of the Journal's Asian and European editions and the OpinionJournal.com Web site. He is also the host of the weekly half-hour news program, the Journal Editorial Report, on the Fox News Channel.”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Op-Ed Guidelines for The Wall Street Journal. WSJ.com. Retrieved on 2010-01-13.
- ↑ CEO Council. Wall Street Journal. Retrieved on 2010-01-13.
- ↑ Andrew Vanacore, "USA Today to post 17 percent drop in circulation", "Associated Press", October 10, 2009.
- ↑ Paul Krugman, "Modified Goldbugism at the Wall Street Journal", "New York Times", October 9, 2009.
- ↑ Kathy G, "Thomas Frank Takes Spot at WSJ, Frost Reported in Hell", "Alternet.com", April 23, 2008.
External Articles
- Chris Welles, Of Bulls and Bears and Sacred Cows", Columbia Journalism Review, July/August 1993. (This is a review of Francis X. Dealy's book The Power and the Money: Inside the Wall Street Journal.)
- Dean Starkman, "WSJ committee Must Prove Its Mettle: It gets benefit of doubt, but now it’s time to fight", Columbia Journalism Review, April 30, 2008.
- Dean Starkman, "The Anglo-ization of The Wall Street Journal: A struggle over the editor was about much more than turf", Columbia Journalism Review, May 8, 2008.
- Ryan Chittum, "The WSJ’s Sketches of Pain", Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2008.
- Ryan Chittum, "'Good News (For Once) At The Journal: Two internal promotions are hopeful signs in the News Corporation era", Columbia Journalism Review, July 7, 2008.
- Ryan Chittum, "Audit Roundup: Wall Street Gives Way: Wall Street’s rot; Where are the accounting cops?", Columbia Journalism Review, September 16, 2008.
- David Carr, "Under Murdoch, Tilting Rightward at The Journal", New York Times, December 13, 2009.
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