New York World Telegram

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The New York World-Telegram , later known as the New York World-Telegram and Sun , was a New York newspaper that appeared from 1867 to 1966.

history

The newspaper was founded in 1867 by James Gordon Bennett as The Evening Telegram and began as the evening edition of the New York Herald , which published its first edition in 1835. After Bennett's death, newspaper and magazine owner Frank A. Munsey acquired The Telegram in June 1920 . Munsey's associate, Thomas W. Dewart, the late publisher and president of the New York Sun , owned the paper for two years after Munsey's death in 1925 before selling it to Scripps in 1927 for an undisclosed amount . At the time of sale, the newspaper was called The New York Telegram and had a circulation of 200,000.

The newspaper became World Telegram after the sale of New York World by the heirs of Joseph Pulitzer to Scripps in 1931 . More than 2000 employees of the morning, evening and Sunday editions of the World lost their jobs in the merger. A few star authors like Broun Heywood and Pegler Westbrook , however, were kept by the new newspaper.

For a few years after the merger, World-Telegram had the reputation of a liberal newspaper based on memories of the Pulitzer-run World . However, under Howard Scripps, the paper steadily moved to the right and eventually became a conservative bastion.

In 1950 the newspaper became the New York World-Telegram and Sun after Dewart and his family sold the remains of another afternoon paper , the New York Sun , to Scripps.

Early in 1966, the proposal to create New York's first joint operating agreement led to the merger of World-Telegram and Sun with Hearsts Journal American . The intention was to produce a joint afternoon edition with a separate morning newspaper, the Herald Tribune . The last edition of the World-Telegram and Sun appeared on April 23, 1966. However, when strikes prevented the operating agreement from taking place, the newspapers merged in August 1966 to form the short-lived New York World Journal Tribune , which only lasted until May 5, 1967 stayed. After the closure, only three daily newspapers will appear in New York: the New York Times , the New York Post and the New York Daily News .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b THE TELEGRAM SOLD TO SCRIPPS-HOWARD; Dewart Disposes of the Former Munsey Newspaper to Syndicate Controlling 25 Others. WAS NOT HIGHEST BIDDER Another 'Handsome' Offer Refused for the Welfare of Paper - No Radical Changes Planned. In: The New York Times . February 12, 1927, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed December 24, 2019]).
  2. ^ Prescott Evening Courier - Google News Archive Search. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .
  3. ^ Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Google News Archive Search. Retrieved December 24, 2019 .