who owns the wall street journal

The Wall Street Journal is owned by Dow Jones & Company, which is a subsidiary of News Corp, a media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch's News Corp acquired Dow Jones & Company, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, in 2007 for about $5 billion, ending over a century of ownership by the Bancroft family. News Corp is a major global media company with various media assets beyond The Wall Street Journal.