![]() ![]() Following Ogden Reid's death in 1947, the paper began a steady decline, undergoing numerous financial setbacks. It featured some of the best reporters in the business-Joseph Barnes, Homer Bigart, Russell Hill, Joseph Driscoll, Joseph Mitchell, Tom Wolfe-and top drawer political columnists such as Walter Lippman, David Lawrence, Joseph Alsop, and Roscoe Drummond. ![]() Noted for its typographical excellence, the high quality of its writing, its Washington and foreign reporting, and its political columnists, the Herald Tribune would reign as the voice of moderate Republicanism and competent journalism for the next four decades. ![]() Reid's son, Ogden, succeeded him and purchased the New York Herald in 1924, merging the two newspapers to form the New York Herald Tribune. Under Whitelaw Reid's control (1873-1912), the Tribune became one of the nation's leading Republican dailies. First published on September 2, 1841, the Tribune weekly enjoyed a wide popularity in small cities and towns, and by 1860 had registered a record-breaking circulation of 200,000. While the Tribune's circulation always trailed its rivals the Sun and the Herald, neither could match the immense success of its weekly edition. He popularized the phrase "Go west, young man go west!" The Tribune supported Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, but opposed his renomination in 1864. His editorial columns urged a variety of educational reforms and favored producer's cooperatives, but opposed women's suffrage. Reflecting his puritanical upbringing, Greeley opposed liquor, tobacco, gambling, prostitution, and capital punishment, while actively promoting the anti-slavery cause. Dana, Bayard Taylor, George Ripley, Margaret Fuller, and, for a while, Karl Marx served as his London correspondent. Greeley gathered an impressive array of editors and feature writers, among them Henry J. As with other penny papers, the Tribune was not averse to building circulation by carrying accounts involving sex and crime, but it was careful to present this material under the guise of cautionary tales. The Tribune offered a strong moralistic flavor, however, playing down crime reports and scandals, providing political news, special articles, lectures, book reviews, book excerpts and poetry. Penny papers such as the New York Sun and the New York Herald were known for their emphasis on lurid crime reporting and humorous, human interest stories from the police court. In 1924 the Tribune merged with the New York Herald to form the New York Herald Tribune, a publication which would remain a major United States daily until its demise.ĭistinguishing features of the early penny press were their inexpensiveness, their appeal to the average reader, their coverage of more and different types of news, and, in some instances, a marked political independence. During Greeley's tenure the Tribune became one of the more significant newspapers in the United States, and Greeley was known as the outstanding newspaper editor of his time. Horace Greeley founded the New York Tribune as a Whig party, penny paper on April 10, 1841, and would continue as its editor for the next thirty years. New-York Tribune and New York Daily Tribune The New York herald, New York tribune.Weekly ed.: New-York tribune (New York, N.Y.Triweekly eds.: New-York tri-weekly tribune, -1903, and: New York tribune (New York, N.Y.Semiweekly ed.: New-York tribune (New York, N.Y.: 1920) to form: New York herald, New York tribune. Merged with: New York herald (New York, N.Y.Evening ed.: Evening edition of the tribune, 1866.Available on microfilm from University Microfilms International, and Recordak.Archived issues are available in digital format as part of the Library of Congress Chronicling America online collection.Also available in digital format on the Library of Congress website.New York (State)-New York County.-fast-(OCoLC)fst01234953.Publisher: New York Tribune Dates of publication: 1866-1924 Description: Place of publication: New York Geographic coverage: ![]()
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