The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp (the United States, NASDAQ: NWSA), which acquired the brand on 13 December 2007, as part of a $5.6 billion deal that also included Dow Jones.[1][2] The Wall Street Journal was founded in 1889 in New York, New York and was independent until 2007.
Evidence: News Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-07, SEC EDGAR, 7 August 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
The Wall Street Journal has published since 1889 and is the largest paid-circulation newspaper in the United States. Its hedcut portraits, stippled ink drawings used instead of photographs, have been a signature of the paper since 1979. Its opinion pages operate separately from its newsroom and take a markedly different editorial line, a division the paper maintains deliberately and states openly.
Sentences about The Wall Street Journal from News Corp's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
(5) For some publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron's , the Dow Jones segment sells bundled print and digital products.
(c) For some publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron's , Dow Jones sells bundled print and digital products.
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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News Corp controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in media & entertainment.
The 70 brands in newspapers & magazines on Brandtree belong to 16 owners. The largest is Reach, with 9; News Corp has 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| BelfastLive | Reach | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Beobachter | Ringier | 🇨🇭 Switzerland |
| Aftenposten | Schibsted Media | 🇳🇴 Norway |
| Condé Nast | Advance | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Country Life | Future | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Car and Driver | Hearst | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Brisbane Times | Nine | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| ARQ | Grupo Clarín | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
News Corp is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, New York, United States, founded in 2013. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: NWSA.
News Corp holds the Murdoch family's newspaper and book publishing interests, separated in 2013 from the television and film business after the British phone hacking scandal. It owns titles that shape political coverage in three countries.
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; The Wall Street Journal is not one of them.
News Corporation acquired Dow Jones for about $5.6 billion, taking The Wall Street Journal after a contested approach to the Bancroft family that had controlled it for a century. The deal included commitments intended to protect the paper's editorial independence.
The parent company of The Wall Street Journal is News Corp, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. The Wall Street Journal originated in the United States in 1889 and its owner, News Corp, is also headquartered in the United States.
News Corp completed its acquisition of The Wall Street Journal on 13 December 2007, after announcing the deal on 1 May 2007. The deal, which also included Dow Jones, was valued at $5.6 billion (enterprise value).
The Wall Street Journal was an independent company from its founding in 1889 in New York, New York until News Corp acquired it in 2007.
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, The Wall Street Journal is still owned by News Corp. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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