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The Wall Street Journal 概要 The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an English-language international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones Company in New York City with Asian and European editions. As of 2007, It has a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million, with approximately 931,000 paying online subscribers. It was the largest-circulation newspaper in the United States until November 2003, when it was surpassed by USA Today. Its main rival is the London-based Financial Times, which also publishes several international editions. Beginnings Dow Jones Company, publisher of the Journal, was founded in 1882 by reporters Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser. Jones converted the small Customers Afternoon Letter into The Wall Street Journal, first published in 1889, and began delivery of the Dow Jones News Service via telegraph. The Journal featured the Jones Average, the first of several indexes of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange. Journalist Clarence Barron purchased control of the company for US$130,000 in 1902; circulation was then around 7,000 but climbed to 50,000 by the end of the 1920s. Barron and his predecessors were credited with creating an atmosphere of fearless, independent financial reporting -- a novelty in the early days of business journalism.[9] Barron died in 1928, a year before Black Tuesday, the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression in the United States. Barrons descendants, the Bancroft family, would continue to control the company until 2007.[9] Later on, the Woodworths published the paper. Mrs. Teresa Teddy Woodworth was a prominent socialite of her day. The Woodworths resided at New Yorks Sherry-Netherland, sharing the penthouse floor with Cole Porter.[citation needed] The Journal took its modern shape and prominence in the 1940s, a time of industrial expansion for the United States and its financial institutions in New York. Bernard Kilgore was named managing editor of the paper in