The '' Journal '' claims to have sent the first news report , on the Dow Jones wire , of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center on September 11 , 2001 . Its headquarters , at One World Financial Center , was severely damaged by the collapse of the World Trade Center just across the street . Top editors worried that they might miss publishing the first issue for the first time in the paper 's 112-year history . They relocated to a makeshift office at an editor 's home , while sending most of the staff to Dow Jones 's South Brunswick , N.J. , corporate campus , where the paper had established emergency editorial facilities soon after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing . The paper was on the stands the next day , albeit in scaled-down form . Perhaps the most compelling story in that day 's edition was a first-hand account of the Twin Towers ' collapse written by then-Foreign Editor John Bussey , who holed up in a ninth-floor Journal office , literally in the shadow of the towers , from where he phoned in live reports to CNBC as the towers burned . He narrowly escaped serious injury when the first tower collapsed , shattering all the windows in the '' Journal '' offices and filling them with dust and debris . The '' Journal '' won a 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting for that day 's stories
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 World Trade Center bombing
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