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The Wall Street Journal was first published on the 8th of July 1889. Charles Dow and Edward Jones launched the publication as a four-page pamphlet delivered to traders in the basement of 15 Wall Street.
Clarence W. Barron purchased The Wall Street Journal in 1902 for 130,000 dollars. His wife Jessie Waldron Barron made the 2,500 dollar down payment to buy the company while Clarence did not own a Dow Jones share for about ten years.
The Wall Street Journal won its first Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for William Henry Grimes's editorials. Bernard Kilgore served as managing editor during this period and oversaw the paper's expansion to include a Southwest edition based in Dallas.
News Corporation acquired The Wall Street Journal on the 1st of August 2007. The Bancroft family initially rejected an unsolicited takeover bid from News Corporation on the 2nd of May 2007 before agreeing to the 5 billion dollar sale.
Jonathan Weil broke the story of financial abuses at Enron in September 2000. He reported on the story regularly with Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller, and they later wrote a book titled 24 Days.
Donald Trump sued The Wall Street Journal on the 18th of July 2025. The newspaper reported on the 17th of July 2025 that Trump had sent Jeffrey Epstein a 50th birthday card in 2003, prompting the defamation lawsuit.