Joseph Medill Patterson

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Joseph Medill Patterson

Joseph Medill Patterson (born January 6, 1879 in Chicago , Illinois , † May 26, 1946 in New York City , New York ) was an American journalist and newspaper publisher.

life and work

Patterson, who came from a publishing family, began his journalistic career at the Chicago Tribune , which was founded by his maternal grandfather, Joseph Medill, who passed it on to his son-in-law. After disagreements he withdrew and wrote two novels, among other things, but returned to the Chicago Tribune after the death of his father in 1910 . During the First World War he was initially a war correspondent , but after the entry of the United States into the war he became a soldier and was most recently captain of a field artillery unit . After learning about small-format daily newspapers in England during the war, Patterson founded the New York Daily News after the war , which appeared for the first time on June 26, 1919 and was the first successful small-format daily newspaper in the United States, and was its editor. He ended the co-editing of the Chicago Tribune , which Patterson had held since 1914, in 1925.

As part of his publishing activities, Patterson initiated and influenced various comics that were published as daily strip in his newspapers. So he got Sidney Smith to start the series The Gumps in 1917 . Frank O. Kings Gasoline Alley , which began as a cartoon series on the Sunday page of the Chicago Tribune , was expanded into a daily strip at Patterson's behest. In 1923, Frank Willard was hired by Patterson to create a series for the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News . The result was the Moon Mullins series , which appeared from 1923 to 1991. A year later, Patterson pushed through that the series Little Orphan Annie drawn by Harold Gray got a female title character. After Patterson became aware of Milton Caniff's Dickie Dare , he offered Caniff to create a new series for his newspapers, which was titled Terry and the Pirates .

Patterson, who won the Pulitzer Prize , was buried in Arlington National Cemetery . He was married twice. His first marriage, to Alice Higinbotham in 1902, was divorced in 1938. His second marriage to Mary King that same year lasted until his death. He had three daughters and one adopted son from his first marriage

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas C. Knigge : Comic-Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 410.
  2. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 49.
  3. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 452.
  4. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic-Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 237.
  5. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: 50 Classic Comics. From Lyonel Feininger to Art Spiegelman . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-8067-2556-X , p. 73.
personal data
SURNAME Patterson, Joseph Medill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and newspaper publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1946
Place of death New York City , New York