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The
New York Herald was a large distribution
newspaper based in
New York City that existed between
May 6,
1835 and
1924.
History
The first issue of the paper was published by
James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (
1795–
1872). During the
American Civil War, it was a staunch supporter of the . Under Bennett's son,
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (
1841–
1918), the paper financed
Henry Morton Stanley's expedition into
Africa to find
David Livingstone, and in
1879 supported the ill-fated expedition of
George W. DeLong to the
arctic region.
In 1861, it circulated 84,000 copies and called itself "the most largely circulated journal in the world."
Bennett's politics tended to be anti-Catholic and he'd tended to favor the "
Know-Nothing faction though he wasn't particularly anti-immigrant as they were.
He stated that the function of a newspaper "is not to instruct but to startle."
On
October 4,
1887, Bennett Jr. launched the
Herald's European edition in
Paris,
France. Following Bennett Jr's move to Paris, the New York Herald suffered from his attempt to manage its operation in New York by telegram. After Gordon Bennett's death, the
New York Herald was merged with its bitter rival, the
New York Tribune, in
1924. In
1959, the
New York Herald Tribune and its
European edition were sold to
John Hay Whitney, the then U.S. ambassador to
Britain. In
1966 the New York paper ceased publication, and the
Washington Post and the
New York Times acquired joint control of the Paris paper, renaming it the
International Herald Tribune. Now owned 100% by the
New York Times, the paper remains an important and influential
English language paper, printed at 26 sites around the world and for sale in more than 180 countries.
When the Herald was still under the authority of its original publisher Bennett, it was considered to be the most invading and sensationalist of the leading New York papers at the time. Its ability to entertain the public with timely daily news made it the leading circulation paper of its time.
Commemorated
New York's
Herald Square is named after the New York Herald newspaper; in the north side of the square there's a sculpture commemorating the Bennetts. (The square is just south of
Times Square, which is also named after a newspaper,
The New York Times.)
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