WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE

daily newspaper published in New York City and in four regional editions printed in 10 plants across the United States to which its content and makeup are transmitted via satellite. It is the most influential business-oriented newspaper in the country and one of the most respected daily papers in the world. The Wall Street Journal was founded in 1889 by Charles H. Dow, of Dow Jones & Company, primarily to cover business and financial news. The first issue was published on July 8 of that year. The newspaper's accuracy and the breadth and detail of its coverage won it respect and success from the start. From its founding until early in the Great Depression, the Journal rarely ventured outside of business and economic news. Then, however, it began to carry occasional feature articles on other subjects. After World War II this trend increased, and by the 1960s the Journal regularly carried two feature articles on page one that only occasionally addressed business subjects, and then in a whimsical or amusing way. The Journal's editorial page and a facing opinion page offer a wide range of highly informed business, political, and economic opinion; readers' letters; and reviews and comments on the arts. The long-established structure of the Journal includes complete tables reporting all financial and stock-market activity for the preceding day as well as thorough reports and analyses of business topics of the day. Published Monday through Friday, the Journal has the highest daily circulation of any national newspaper in the United States.