About The Wall Street Journal Online

The Wall Street Journal Online is the leading product of Consumer Electronic Publishing of Dow Jones & Company. It provides in-depth business news and financial information every day, seven days a week and contains insight and analysis, including breaking business and technology news and analysis from around the world. It’s staff counts about 1,900 business and financial journalists in the world.

It is important to mention that all managers of this online publication are stated on the site

Quality of News

All news on The Wall Street Journal Online are presented fairly, accurately and in time. Readers do get essential and relevant information.
There are several versions of the site – for Europe, the USA, Asia and etc. The news different on these versions and must be placed there according to their topicality. The publication claims to have a numerous team and verifies it by provifing fresh well-written news from all over the world.

There are several traditional sections, the news are divided into. Some of them have sub-sections, which makes it easier for a visitor to find the news he needs.

Apart from News

The Wall Street Journal Online has a lot of extra services. Some of them are of free access, others are available (or partly available) only to subscibers. Among these services are: Article Research (searches for articles you need and gives you a list of articles related to the topic), Company Research (finds a company you need and provides a detailed description of it), Get Mobile (allows you to get news and other financial information on your Blackberry®, Treo® or other mobile devices) and a lot more.

Site Design and Ease of Navigation Comments

The design is nice, navigation is quite easy.
The good point is that the website is not overload with advertisement.
The bad point is that there are too many pop up windows.

Advantages

• Wall Street Journal Online appears to be a respectful source
• News are fresh, well-written, plentiful and relevant
• There is a wide range of helpful extra services, most of which are free

Disadvantages

• There could be less pop up windows