Fremont Lawson

Fremont Lawson (born September 9, 1850, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died August 19, 1925, Chicago) was a newspaper editor and publisher, one of the first in the United States to assign correspondents to live and gather news in major cities outside the country. Before this innovation (1898) American newspapers relied on dispatches from British or other foreign sources. He also led the successful effort of Western publishers to rescue the Associated Press (AP) from a combine that...