The Wall Street Journal celebrates its 125th birthday today. The first issue that was published\u00a0on 8 July in 1889, was a four page afternoon paper priced at 2 cents a copy.\u00a0Today, WSJ boasts of over 2.2 million subscribers, 12 global versions in nine languages and reporters spread across 75 countries.<\/p>\n
To commemorate the anniversary, The Journal has published special content that takes readers back in history and forward in time with a\u00a0reproduction of its first front page from 1889 in print, an\u00a0extensive archive showing how they covered many of the big stories of the past 125 years<\/a>\u00a0on its website, WSJ.com as well as\u00a0a\u00a0special report, The Future of Everything<\/a>, which is\u00a0about “tomorrow’s world.”<\/p>\n In a letter<\/a> to readers,\u00a0Gerard Baker, editor in chief, The Wall Street Journal said: ‘As we mark this milestone, we rededicate ourselves to bringing you the news and analysis you rely on, however you want it delivered. In a fast-changing and complicated world, The Wall Street Journal stands committed to being your essential guide, engaging, informing and, we hope, delighting you along the way.’ \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The first issue of the Wall Street Journal:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The first issue of The Wall Street Journal was four pages, for two cents. http:\/\/t.co\/kAj8Bcl85I<\/a> #WSJ125<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/xJNLhas9ap<\/a> \u2014 Gerard Baker (@gerardtbaker) July 7, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n 125 years of the WSJ chronicled:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Explore history through 125 years of the WSJ: http:\/\/t.co\/gGblJN4miN<\/a> #WSJ125<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/HBNMtYkHmt<\/a> \u2014 Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) July 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Wall Street Journal celebrates its 125th birthday today. The first issue that was published\u00a0on 8 July in 1889, was a four page afternoon paper priced at 2 cents a copy.\u00a0Today, WSJ boasts of over …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":322,"featured_media":67317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3729,1449],"tags":[5984,6617,2205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}