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The first issue of The Wall Street Journal appeared on the 8th of July 1889. Charles H. Dow and Edward D. Jones had founded their news service in the basement of 15 Wall Street just four years prior.
Clarence W. Barron purchased Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal in 1902 for one hundred thirty thousand dollars. His wife Jessie Waldron Barron made the initial two thousand five hundred dollar down payment.
By 2025, digital subscriptions reached four point one three million users nationwide. Print circulation stood at four hundred twelve thousand copies that same year.
The newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2002 covering its own destruction by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Reporter John Bussey phoned live reports to CNBC from a ninth-floor office next to the burning buildings.
The Wall Street Journal Online launched in April 1996 with access restricted to paying subscribers only. An annual subscription cost two hundred seventy-five dollars by June 2013 excluding introductory offers.