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Article: Wall Street Journal
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WALL STREET JOURNAL
WALL STREET JOURNAL.
Charles Dowand Edward Jones, owners of Dow, Jones and Company, began publishing the daily
Wall Street Journal
on 8 July 1889. Both Dow and Jones were New Englanders with mutual
roots in journalism in Providence, Rhode Island. Their company had been founded seven years earlier as a financial news agency serving the burgeoning New York City financial community. Following their initial success, the founders sold their company to their Boston correspondent Clarence Barron in 1902.
Newspapers in the United States have been primarily concerned with general news and the perspectives of their local communities. The
Wall Street Journal
was ...