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 James Gordon Bennett
founded the New York Herald in 1835. The
paper combined public interest stories,
sensational reports of crimes and disasters, and
coverage of national and international events,
along with Bennett's own editorials. By the end
of the decade it was one of the two
highest-circulation dailies in America. |
 Frank Marshall Davis
began writing poems as the result of a college
assignment, and subsequently wrote several
volumes of poetry that achieved wide acclaim. He
was also a very successful newspaper editor,
started a photography club, and worked for
various political parties. |
 Ann
Landers was the pen name of Esther
Pauline Friedman, who, for almost 50 years,
dispensed advice on topics ranging from
relationship issues to abortion rights. |
 Samuel
Medary was the editor of the Ohio
Statesman, in which he is said to have
originated the cry of "Fifty-four-forty, or
fight" in relation to the Oregon boundary
dispute. He served as Territorial Governor of
Minnesota and of Kansas. |
 Adolph Simon Ochs
turned a financially troubled newspaper in
Chattanooga, Tennessee, into one of the most
respected and prosperous dailies in the South. In
1896, he purchased another financially troubled
newspaper. Under his leadership, the New York
Times became one of the most respected
newspapers in America. |
 William Allen White
bought the Emporia Gazette in 1895. His
1896 editorial "What's the Matter with
Kansas?" made he and his paper famous, and
he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his 1922
editorial "To an Anxious Friend." |
 Fred W. Friendly
was a radio news producer when he came up with
the historic news program Hear It Now,
which moved to television as See It Now.
For 15 years he was executive producer of CBS
Reports, which reported on the plight of
migrant workers, the civil rights movement, birth
control, drug abuse, and the population
explosion. |
 John Cameron Swayze
became the prototype of modern television
newscasters when he began hosting the NBC news
program Camel News Caravan, which
replaced the straight newsreel format common to
the day. |
