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Born October 15, 1906 • Chicago • Illinois
Died July 2, 1963 (aged 56) • New York City • New York
Founder “Newsday”
Joseph Medill, detail of a lithograph by J.O. Ottomann Company, 1893.
Joseph Medill
American publisher
William Allen White
William Allen White
American journalist
Moore, Ely
Ely Moore
American journalist and politician
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Carlos P. Romulo
Filipino diplomat
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.
Joseph Pulitzer
American newspaper publisher
Eleanor Medill Patterson.
Eleanor Medill Patterson
American publisher
Portrait of John Hay Whitney wearing glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking directly at the camera.
John Hay Whitney
American sportsman and businessman
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Ellen Browning Scripps
American publisher and philanthropist
Schurz
Carl Schurz
German-American politician
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Marie Mattingly Meloney
American journalist and editor
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Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson
American poet and journalist
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A.S. Abell
American journalist
John S. Knight.
John S. Knight
American journalist and publisher
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Roy W. Howard
American journalist
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John Peter Zenger
American printer
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Ralph McGill
American journalist
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Isaiah Thomas
American journalist
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Arthur M. Sackler
American physician
George Creel.
George Creel
American journalist