iPhone App Makes Wall Street Journal Free

People who love to read free news online (and contribute to the death of newspapers) know one sad fact: The Wall Street Journal requires a subscription. But now iPhone and iPod Touch owners can get all the Journal's content for nothing by downloading the WSJ app from the iTunes Store.The WSJ app looks a lot like the New York Times app. Why mess with a good thing? It features a tabbed interface along the bottom leading to different content areas, and there's a small ad just above the tabs to sponsor all this free goodness. The app offers print, video, and audio content. I haven't found the little wood cut-style illustrations yet, but I'm sure they're here somewhere.

This actually isn't the Journal's first foray into the app world: It put out an app for the BlackBerry in August. So far most user comments on the iTunes Store are positive, but many complain about the size of the banner ad. Click here to see the app in the iTunes Store.