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News, features and resources for media and publishing professionals. Tuesday, October 10, 2000 Blogs | Subscribe | Interviews | Events | Films | Book Blog Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs WSJ.com Passes Half Million Subscriber Milestone Dow Jones & Company has announced that The Wall Street Journal Online passed the 500,000-subscriber milestone as of September 30, 2000. WSJ.com has steadily attracted new subscribers since beginning to charge in the fall of 1996. This is about 1/3 the circulation of the print edition of The Wall Street Journal, which has a daily circulation of about 1.8 million. ``From the beginning it was our intention to build a timely news resource that readers would find valuable enough to pay for,'' said Neil F. Budde, editor and publisher of WSJ.com. ``Our readers are investment-oriented, tech-savvy businesspeople and we've continually developed WSJ.com, adding innovations and news features that meet our readers' most vital information needs.'' Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter. www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved.