English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news published in New York. Owned by News Corporation.
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Primary geographic focus: NATIONAL, New York
Organization type(s): Media
Acronym or short name: WSJ
The Wall Street Journal is an English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news published in New York.
It is published 6 days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal. The Journal is the largest newspaper in the United States by circulation. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, it has a circulation of about 2.4 million copies (including nearly 900,000 digital subscriptions), as of March 2013, compared with USA Today’s 1.7 million. Its main rival in the business newspaper sector is the London-based Financial Times, which also publishes several international editions.
The Journal primarily covers American economic and international business topics, and financial news and issues. It has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. Its editorial pages and columns, run separately from the news pages, are highly influential in American conservative circles.
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News StoryCoronavirus Forces Courts to Experiment
Laura KusistoWall Street Journal (WSJ)
March 28, 2020
News Story
Bankrupt Borrowers Won’t Forfeit Coronavirus Aid Payments to Creditors Under Stimulus Package
Katy Stech FerekWall Street Journal (WSJ)
March 26, 2020
The stimulus package passed by the Senate includes provisions to aid bankrupt consumers and small businesses. “There are going to be millions of people facing financial hardship,” said Rohan Pavuluri, of the nonprofit, Upsolve, which helps people navigate the civil justice system as they file for bankruptcy. Pavuluri says Upsolve has begun hearing stories from people who have lost income because of coronavirus-related shutdowns.“Personal bankruptcy, just like in 2008, will play a critical role in the healing process of America, and I think Congress is acknowledging that," he said.
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Coronavirus Outbreak Pushes Local Governments to Freeze Home Evictions
Will ParkerWall Street Journal (WSJ)
March 22, 2020
As job losses mount, efforts are under way in the U.S. to ensure people have a place to live and quarantine.
News Story
As Rents Rise, Cities Strengthen Tenants’ Ability to Fight Eviction
Laura KusistoWall Street Journal (WSJ)
December 26, 2019
Half-a-dozen cities from San Francisco to Cleveland are promising tenants the right to an attorney in eviction cases, a costly and logistically daunting initiative that advocates say is a necessary response to rising housing costs and homelessness.
News Story
Court Opens New Legal Options for Separated Children in New York
Melanie Grayce WestWall Street Journal (WSJ)
July 17, 2018
Federal ruling gives two children a 48-hour window, allowing lawyers to pursue asylum claims and setting a precedent for 300 others.
News Story
Migrants Keep Crossing Southern U.S. Border, Undeterred by Risks
Alicia Caldwell, Juan MontesWall Street Journal (WSJ)
June 19, 2018
Families with few options stay hopeful despite threat of separation.
News Story
Lawsuit Claims Some Young Immigrants Treated Unfairly Under New Policy
Corinne RameyWall Street Journal (WSJ)
June 7, 2018
Lawyers say federal authorities have been denying a special status to immigrants in New York aged 18 through 20.
News Story
Debt-Collection Firm Settles Class-Action Lawsuit
Melanie Grayce WestWall Street Journal (WSJ)
March 31, 2018
Asta Funding, law firm to pay $3.9 million to settle charges they improperly tried to collect millions of dollars on AT&T Wireless debts.
Feature
For Struggling Consumers, a Cheaper Way to File for Bankruptcy
Katy Stech FerekWall Street Journal (WSJ)
September 10, 2017
A nonprofit has developed an online program designed to help people prepare a chapter 7 filing without a lawyer.
News Story
In Harvey Aftermath, Lawyers Mobilize to Help Houston Victims
Nicole Hong, Sara RandazzoWall Street Journal (WSJ)
September 2, 2017
Legal-aid groups and law firms volunteer to aid with insurance and FEMA claims, among other things.
News Story
We Won’t See You in Court: The Era of Tort Lawsuits Is Waning
Joe PalazzoloWall Street Journal (WSJ)
July 24, 2017
State restrictions, increasing cost and a long campaign by businesses has discouraged plaintiffs.
News Story
New York Courts Struggle to Keep Up With Need to Interpret More Languages
Thomas MacMillanWall Street Journal (WSJ)
April 18, 2017
The challenge is growing to provide translations for more than 100 languages in New York City.
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General Counsel Join Fight to Save Legal Services Corp.
Sara RandazzoWall Street Journal (WSJ)
March 28, 2017
The group of top corporate lawyers, from companies including Google Inc., American Express, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Walt Disney, signed on to a letter delivered to all members of Congress.
News Story
Proposed Trump Budget Would End Legal Services Corp.
Sara RandazzoWall Street Journal (WSJ)
March 16, 2017
Tucked in President Donald Trump’s sweeping proposed budget released Wednesday is a line item that many in the legal community feared was coming: the complete elimination of the Legal Services Corp.
News Story
Law Firms Urge Trump Administration Not to Cut Funding for Legal-Aid Agency
Sara RandazzoWall Street Journal (WSJ)
March 9, 2017
Akin Gump, Paul Weiss and others say cuts to Legal Services Corp.’s budget would affect their ability to provide free legal counsel.
News Story
NY Housing Authority Seeks Private Investors for Brooklyn, Bronx Buildings
Laura KusistoWall Street Journal (WSJ)
January 18, 2017
Private developers expected to help upgrade 1,700 units needing about $350 million in repairs.
News Story
Unrepresented Civil Litigants Fare Better With Nonlawyers, Study Shows
Corinne RameyWall Street Journal (WSJ)
December 13, 2016
Trained legal helpers can aid with paperwork or answer questions from a judge but can’t argue in court.
News Story
New Tech Helps Tenants Make Their Case in Court
Corinne RameyWall Street Journal (WSJ)
December 12, 2016
Nonprofit provides sensors to document lack of heat in apartments; landlord group says other variables at play.
News Story
New York City Ramps Up Immigrant Outreach
Josh DawseyWall Street Journal (WSJ)
October 31, 2016
Immigrant services are being expanded; programs are showing dividends.
News Story
High Cost of New Hepatitis C Drugs Strains Prison Budgets, Locks Many Out of Cure
Peter Loftus, Gary FieldsWall Street Journal (WSJ)
September 12, 2016
Thousands of convicts have the deadly infectious disease, but only the sickest qualify for medicines because they are so expensive.
News Story
New York City Relies on Motels to House Homeless
Josh Dawsey, Mark MoralesWall Street Journal (WSJ)
August 28, 2016
De Blasio administration says policy is necessary to deal with growing problem; some elected officials and advocates push back.
News Story
Foreclosures Drop in New York and New Jersey as Courts Pick Up Pace
Josh BarbanelWall Street Journal (WSJ)
August 3, 2016
The foreclosure crisis that gripped the U.S. since 2008 has eased in many states, but it has persisted in New York and New Jersey because of the slow pace of their foreclosure processes through the courts. Now there are signs of change.
News Story
Landlords Face Pressure on Criminal Background Checks
Laura KusistoWall Street Journal (WSJ)
April 4, 2016
Technology makes it possible for apartment owners to perform fast, cheap checks on prospective renters
News Story
Hot Housing Markets Pinch Seniors
Jennifer Levitz, Laura KusistoWall Street Journal (WSJ)
March 31, 2016
Decline in homeownership among older people leaves them susceptible to rent hikes.
News Story
City Produces Millions of Documents for Federal Probe of Public Housing
Rebecca Davis-O’Brien, Josh DawseyWall Street Journal (WSJ)
March 18, 2016
City officials have turned over millions of documents to the federal prosecutors who are conducting a broad investigation into health and safety conditions at New York City Housing Authority buildings and at homeless shelters.
News Story
Tenants in Maze of New York Courts Get a Helping Hand
Zolan Kanno-YoungsWall Street Journal (WSJ)
February 15, 2016
The Court Navigator Program in New York City guides people who don’t have an attorney through their civil case.
News Story
New York Mayor Says Right to Counsel in Civil Cases is a Good Idea but Requires Federal Help
Jacob GershmanWall Street Journal (WSJ)
September 29, 2015
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he can see a day not too far away when indigent defendants have a legal right to a lawyer in civil cases.
Blog Post
Judge Rules in Favor of Transgender Inmate Who Alleged Harassment
Jacob GershmanWall Street Journal (WSJ)
September 25, 2015
An administrative judge ruled that a Maryland prison’s treatment of a transgender inmate violated federal regulations, ruling that she deserved compensation as a result.
News Story
New York Rent Act Draws Conflicting Interpretations
Josh BarbanelWall Street Journal (WSJ)
July 16, 2015
Lawyers disagree on whether law extending regulation also expands tenant protections.
News Story
Officials Brace for Rent Crisis
Mara GayWall Street Journal (WSJ)
June 12, 2015
Lawmakers and officials in New York City began creating contingency plans in case Albany lawmakers fail to renew rent regulations.
News Story
Fight Grows to Stop Expunged Criminal Records Living On in Background Checks
Joe Palazzolo, Gary FieldsWall Street Journal (WSJ)
May 7, 2015
Criminal records live on in some reports even after being expunged from government databases leaving many with difficulties of getting jobs and housing.
News Story
New York Officials Push Right to Counsel in Civil Cases
Rebecca Davis-O’BrienWall Street Journal (WSJ)
April 5, 2015
New York officials are seeking to increase funding to provide poor people with free legal services in civil proceedings such as eviction and immigration matters
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As Child Immigrants Await Fate, a Race for Counsel
Mara GayWall Street Journal (WSJ)
October 1, 2014
How the court system is influenced by the influx of unaccompanied children and how legal aid is responding to the crisis in the face of a lawyer shortage.
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New Mission for Lawyers: Free Aid to Young Immigrants
Miriam JordanWall Street Journal (WSJ)
October 1, 2014
Attorneys at major U.S. law firms and corporations are volunteering to represent, at no cost, unaccompanied children who have entered the U.S. illegally and lack access to justice.
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U.S. Government to Provide $9 Million for Legal Aid to Child Migrants
Miriam JordanWall Street Journal (WSJ)
September 30, 2014
To tackle the influx the unaccompanied children across the border, the U.S. government will help funding to legal aid organizations.
News Story
For More Teens, Arrests by Police Replace School Discipline
Gary Fields, John R. EmshwillerWall Street Journal (WSJ)
October 21, 2014
A generation ago, schoolchildren caught fighting in the corridors, sassing a teacher or skipping class might have ended up in detention. Today, there’s a good chance they will end up in police custody.
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