Started in 1889 by Charles Dow and Edward Jones (who created the Dow Jones Financial Service), the Wall Street Journal was originally nothing more than a record of stock prices, railroad reports, and crop futures; it didn’t begin providing other news until 1902. It quickly became the trusted organ of Wall Street, and its reporting has become so influential to the stock market that a reporter who leaked information about an issue of the paper before it was printed was sentenced to more than a year in jail in the 1980s.