A One-Year Digital Subscription to The Wall Street Journal Only $52 or $42 with an Amex Offer
We’ve seen a number of Wall Street Journal subscription deals – primarily for the digital version – over the past year.
The primary one being $4 per month for the first year. Which, if you can find working promo links would be an incrementally better, or worse, deal than this, depending on if you have an American Express card with the Wall Street Journal Amex Offer available.
The current base Wall Street Journal subscription deal is one year of the Journal‘s All Access Digital product for $52. You can view the deal at the link below.
The Wall Street Journal One-Year Digital Subscription for $52 Deal Link
The Wall Street Journal Amex Offer
If you have an American Express credit card, check your Amex account to see if you have the recently added Wall Street Journal Amex Offer waiting.
If so, adding it to your card, and using that card to pay for your subscription will give you a one-time $10 statement credit when you make a single purchase of $52 or more online at wsj.com/amex.
Which just so happens to be the annual price of the currently available WSJ digital subscription promo.
Use the Amex Offer, and your one year digital subscription price will be just $42.
The Amex Offer’s Terms state that you must use the dedicated landing page for this offer… wsj.com/amex…to get the $10 statement credit.
We’ve used that link in this post. Although, to be safe and ensure you’ll get the Amex Offer credit, you might want to use the link in the Offer’s language to actually subscribe.
Or, if you don’t care about the Amex Offer, just use our links as long as they continue to show the $52 per year deal price.
The Amex Offer expires October 21, 2021.
What’s not clear is if the $52 per year digital subscription price will remain until that date as well.
Automatic Renewal and Cancellation
Be aware, as with most subscription promotions, this subscription will automatically renew at the end of your year’s subscription at the then-current price, charged to the credit card used at sign-up.
The price will be significantly higher than this deal price.
So, you’ll definitely want to call prior to month 13 to cancel your subscription.
You can contact Customer Service at 1-(800)-JOURNAL (568-7625) or 609-514-0870. They, unfortunately, do not accept cancellations by mail, email, or by any other means for most subscribers. Although, I’ve heard California requires an online cancellation option to be available…can’t confirm, though.
You may be able to get a deal during that call, although, it seems lower-priced subscription offers to the Journal only come once a subscription is cancelled.
Depending on promo availability at the time you’ll be renewing, there are some lower-priced or free options for remaining a Journal subscriber.
OTHER WSJ SUBSCRIPTION DEALS
I always like to add this information to any Wall Street Journal subscription deal I publish.
Airline Shopping Portals
The major airline shopping portals usually have a deal where you can get a limited-time subscription for a low price. And on top of the subscription deal, you’ll earn airline miles, too.
The currently available deals are:
American Airlines – $12 for a 12 week subscription and 1000 AAdvantage miles
United Airlines – $12 for a 12 week subscription and 500 MileagePlus miles
Delta Air Lines – $12 for a 12 weeks subscription and 600 SkyMiles
Southwest – $12 for a 12 weeks subscription and 700 Rapid Rewards points
Alaska Airlines – $12 for a 12 week subscription and 700 Mileage Plan miles
These aren’t the best airline miles bonus offers, but if your goal is a low-priced limited-time subscription rather than earning the most airline miles, this is an okay offer.
Just remember to call and cancel your subscription prior to the 12 weeks ending.
You’ll likely be offered a deal to stay a subscriber…how good of a deal, I’m not sure.
And if you cancel, you should be able to sign-up for another low-priced, limited-time subscription deal via another airline shopping portal.
Some reports even indicate the same airline shopping portal deals can be used repeatedly.
Mags for Miles
Another route to go is to use airline miles for a free subscription from Mags for Miles.
Unfortunately, I haven’t seen The Wall Street Journal on Mags for Miles in a while now. It may have been removed permanently. But, it’s still worth checking.
The miles listed for a subscription are from the last time the paper was available on Mags for Miles – March 2020.
United MileagePlus – 304 WSJ issues for 3,200 miles or 228 issues for 2,700 miles
Delta SkyMiles – 304 WSJ issues for 3,200 miles or 228 issues for 2,700 miles
Alaska Mileage Plan – 304 WSJ issues for 3,900 miles or 228 issues for 3,300 miles
Frontier, Hawaiian and Spirit airlines also have deals available. You can search specific redemption amounts at the Mags for Miles website here.
*Mags for Miles will remove The Wall Street Journal from its offerings from time to time. If it’s gone now, check back in a few months to see if it’s become available again.
The downside to these subscriptions is that they’re typically available to new subscribers only and they’re for actual paper delivery subscriptions only.
There have been reports of people getting a subscription through Mags for Miles and then calling The Wall Street Journal customer service telephone number to have their account number activated for the online edition as well.
There have also been reports – my own, included – where multiple calls did not result in access to the online edition.
WRAP UP
The Wall Street Journal is offering some fantastic subscription deals right now.
More and more, finding reliable news sources is becoming a challenge. Luckily, The Wall Street Journal remains, and is one of the few options from which you can read the latest news confident you’re getting facts and not spin.
If you’re okay with a digital subscription, I’d jump on this deal.
Please share this deal so others can benefit from this great subscription deal to a quality newspaper.
