The online version of the Wall Street Journal (DJ) continues to grow, as they announced today that it has reached the 1 million mark for paid subscribers. That's 30 percent growth over the last two years.
At a FOBM conference earlier in the week, Gordon Crovitz, the publisher of WSJ said, “The Wall St. Journal online is already the best business website, measured by quality of readers and journalist ... the issue is, ‘can we have the biggest’?”
Of course the question, as far as it concerns the Wall Street Journal, is whether they will change to a free model once it's taken over by News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch. There's been talk on both sides of the issue, although no firm hint at which way it'll go.
For the overall property, including its print edition, the Journal has dropped in circulation by 1.5 percent from last year, now having a total of 2,021,000 including online and print editions.
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