The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal publishes the world's business and financial news and information, and in 2002 had a circulation of roughly 1.8 million (Media, 2004). Reporters Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser founded the Dow Jones Company in 1882 and these three men converted the small Customer's Afternoon Letter into the Wall Street Journal, which was first published in 1989. They began delivering the Dow Jones News Service via telegraph, and the Wall Street Journal features the Jones 'Average' - the first of several indexes of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock Exchange and the world's most widely followed stock market indicator, which tracks the world's largest stock market.

Journalist Clarence Barron, who had been hired several years previously to be Dow Jones' first out-

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