The Asian Wall Street Journal is a version of The Wall Street Journal that provides news and analysis of global business developments for an Asian audience.
The paper has more than 75 news staff in Asia (more than any other competing regional newspapers), 13 news editors, and 2 commentary editors. Its editor-in-chief is Reginald Chua. The Asian Journal also includes news and signed op-eds from The Washington Post.
The first editor and publisher of the Asian Journal was Peter R. Kann, the current chairman and chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Company.
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Its readers are 75.2% Asian citizens, and 72% work in top management.
Its readership boasts an average annual income of USD 172,000, an average annual household income of USD 230,000, and an average value of investments of USD 1,602,000.
The breadth of the journal's circulation expanded further with the launch of the AsianWallStreetJournal in 1976 and the WallStreetJournal Europe in 1983.
The Journal newspaper primarily covers U.S. and international business and financial news and issues—the paper's name comes from WallStreet, the street in New York City which is the heart of the financial district.
In 2001, the Journal was ahead of most of the journalistic pack in appreciating the importance of the accounting abuses at Enron, and two of its reporters in particular, Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller, played a crucial role in bringing these abuses to light.
The WallStreetJournal (WSJ) is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with a worldwide average daily circulation of more than 2.6 million as of 2005.
In September 2005, the Journal launched a weekend edition, delivered to all subscribers, which marked a return to Saturday publication after a lapse of some 30 years.
One surprise is the WallStreetJournal, which we find as the most liberal of all 20 news outlets [studied].
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