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The ''New York World-Telegram'', later known as the ''New York World-Telegram and The Sun'', was a New York City newspaper from 1931 to 1966.


History

Founded by
James Gordon Bennett Sr. James Gordon Bennett Sr. (September 1, 1795 – June 1, 1872) was the founder, editor and publisher of the ''New York Herald'' and a major figure in the history of American newspapers. Early life Bennett was born to a prosperous Roman Catholic ...
as ''The Evening Telegram'' in 1867, the newspaper began as the evening edition of ''
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'', which itself published its first issue in 1835. Following Bennett's death, newspaper and magazine owner Frank A. Munsey purchased ''The Telegram'' in June 1920. Munsey's associate Thomas W. Dewart, the late publisher and president of the ''
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'', owned the paper for two years after Munsey died in 1925 before selling it to the E. W. Scripps Company for an undisclosed sum in 1927. At the time of the sale, the paper was known as ''The New York Telegram'', and it had a circulation of 200,000.(February 12, 1927
The Telegram Sold to Scripps-Howard
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The newspaper became the ''World-Telegram'' in 1931, following the sale of the ''
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'' by the heirs of Joseph Pulitzer to Scripps Howard. More than 2,000 employees of the morning, evening and Sunday editions of the ''World'' lost their jobs in the merger, although some star writers, like
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and Westbrook Pegler, were kept on the new paper. The ''World-Telegram'' enjoyed a reputation as a liberal paper for some years after the merger, based on memories of the Pulitzer-owned ''World''. However, under Scripps Howard the paper moved steadily to the right, eventually becoming a conservative bastion described by the press critic
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as "Republican, anti-labor, and suspicious of anything European." (Liebling also called the paper "the organ of New York's displaced persons (displaced from the interior of North America.)") In 1940, the paper carried a series of articles entitled "The Rape of China," which used Walter Judd's experiences with Japanese soldiers as the basis of support for a campaign to boycott Japanese goods. Publisher Roy Howard, an expert of sorts after travelling to Manchuria and Japan in the early 1930s, gave extensive coverage of Japanese atrocities in China. The paper's headline of December 8, 1941, read "1500 Dead in Hawaii" in its coverage of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.


''New York World-Telegram and The Sun''

In 1950, the paper became the ''New York World-Telegram and The Sun'' after Dewart and his family sold Scripps the remnants of another afternoon paper, the ''New York Sun''.(January 4, 1950)
World-Telegram and Sun Merged in Transaction
''Prescott Evening Courier'' (Associated Press)
(Liebling once described ''The Sun'' on the combined publication's
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as resembling the tail feathers of a canary on the chin of a cat.)


''New York World Journal Tribune''

Early in 1966, a proposal to create New York's first joint operating agreement led to the merger of the ''World-Telegram and The Sun'' with Hearst's '' Journal American''. The intention was to produce a joint afternoon edition, with a separate morning paper to be produced by the ''
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''. The last edition of the ''World-Telegram and The Sun'' was published on April 23, 1966.(April 24, 1966)
New York Newspaper Strike Set
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But when strikes prevented the JOA from taking effect, the papers instead united in August 1966 to become the short-lived ''
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'', which lasted only until May 5, 1967. Its closure left New York City with three daily newspapers: ''
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'', the ''
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'' and the ''
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''. The archives of the paper are not available online, but they can be accessed at the Library of Congress, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and several research facilities in the state of New York.


Gallery

File:Albert Einstein citizenship NYWTS.jpg, ''World-Telegram'' photo of
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Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and Singing, vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and se ...
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, Bayard Rustin (l) and Cleveland Robinson


See also

* Media of New York City


References


External links


Library of Congress ''New York World Telegram and Sun'' Newspaper Photograph Collection
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