Wall Street Journal now has 1 million paying web customers

Wall Street Journal has said in a statement that they now have more than 1 million paying customers for access to their web site.

This is pretty impressive especially when most other news media destinations are opening up their online resources to support themselves with online advertising.

WSJ added that the combined circulation for the print and electronic editions of the Journal fell 1.5 percent to 2.01 million for the six months ending in September this year.

Looks like more of their customers are now preferring to get the digitized edition instead of the paper version.

It is unclear whether this latest data would change the mind of News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch who has been considering opening up the WSJ for everyone…

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