WSJ Sunday’s 12th anniversary

David Crook, the editor of the Wall Street Journal Sunday that runs in 70 papers across the country, writes Sunday about the special section’s growth and sharing an anniversary with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Crook writes, “Here’s the short version: Thank you. We couldn’t do it without you, our partner newspapers and our colleagues at Dow Jones & Co. and News Corp. Our circulation is over 7.7 million, including the readers of the Washington Examiner, which today becomes our 70th partner paper.

“To put those numbers in perspective: That’s more than three times the circulation of the daily Wall Street Journal, more than double the combined circulations of Money, SmartMoney and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, and more than 18 times the typical daily audience of CNBC and Fox Business News.

“As much as I love to rattle off those figures, writing our story is a bit more complicated this year as our celebration coincides with the somber anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The Wall Street Journal’s own history is closely tied to those events — our offices across the street from the World Trade Center were badly damaged, and many of our colleagues were caught up in the maelstrom. No fatalities among our staff, fortunately, but plenty of scarring.

“You can read lots about 9/11 elsewhere in today’s paper, but few articles are likely to make the point that the attacks are just the worst of a cascade of calamities that have battered Americans for over a decade. Indeed, much of the past dozen years has made September 1999, when Sunday Journal was born, look like the waning of a golden age of peace and prosperity.”

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