| | '''''The Wall Street Journal''''' is an international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Co. in [[New York City]]; it concentrates on financial and business news. Named after [[Wall Street]], the financial center of New York City and of the [[United States]], ''The Wall Street Journal'' was first issued on July 8, 1889; its publishers were Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. | | '''''The Wall Street Journal''''' is an international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Co. in [[New York City]]; it concentrates on financial and business news. Named after [[Wall Street]], the financial center of New York City and of the [[United States]], ''The Wall Street Journal'' was first issued on July 8, 1889; its publishers were Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. |
| − | On July 31, 2007, [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s News Corporation, the parent company of [[Fox News]] and HarperCollins, sealed a $5 billion agreement to purchase the publisher of The WSJ, Dow Jones & Co. Under the control of the [[liberal]] heirs of Rupert Murdoch, in 2022 the WSJ became [[Opposition to Donald Trump|anti-Trump]] and helpful more to [[Dem]]s in the [[2022 midterm elections]], such as printing an opinion column against [[conservative]] [[Herschel Walker]] a month before the pivotal election.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/-peggy-noonan-republicans-herschel-walker-georgia-warnock-election-11665682169 (letter criticizing the anti-Walker column).</ref> | + | On July 31, 2007, [[Rupert Murdoch]]'s News Corporation, the parent company of [[Fox News]] and HarperCollins, sealed a $5 billion agreement to purchase the publisher of The WSJ, Dow Jones & Co. Under the control of the [[liberal]] heirs of Rupert Murdoch, in 2022 the WSJ became [[Opposition to Donald Trump|anti-Trump]] and helpful more to [[Dem]]s in the [[2022 midterm elections]], such as printing an opinion column against [[conservative]] [[Herschel Walker]] a month before the pivotal election.<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/-peggy-noonan-republicans-herschel-walker-georgia-warnock-election-11665682169 What Should Republicans Do About Herschel Walker?], WSJ, Oct. 14, 2022. |
| | It is one of the few newspapers gaining circulation in the U.S. With 2 million readers its circulation is catching up with [[USA Today]]. | | It is one of the few newspapers gaining circulation in the U.S. With 2 million readers its circulation is catching up with [[USA Today]]. |