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Press room of the New York Tribune
Front page of the New York Herald with the headline reading The Lusitania is sunk; 1,000 probably are lost, featuring a photo of the ship and images of crew members.
Faded front page of the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper from March 6, 1828, featuring English and Cherokee syllabary text in multiple columns under a phoenix emblem.
The Philadelphia Inquirer newsroom
Painting of a person with a headscarf reading a newspaper, with blue and white text overlaid reading: How the middle class learned to read.
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Frederick Douglass
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Henry Fielding, frontispiece to Fielding's Works (1st ed., 1762), engraving by James Basire after a drawing by William Hogarth
Henry Fielding
English author
Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian revolutionary
John Wilkes, engraving from a manifesto commemorating his fight against general warrants and for the liberty of the press, 1768
John Wilkes
British journalist and politician
Jamal Khashoggi
Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi journalist
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prime minister of Serbia
Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
Rupert Murdoch
Australian-born American publisher
Colombian President Ivan Duque in a suit and purple tie, smiling, with blurred flags in the background.
Iván Duque
president of Colombia
Black and white illustrated portrait of a woman with a calm expression, wearing a headscarf and traditional clothing, representing Indian freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali.
Aruna Asaf Ali
Indian political activist
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Shamsur Rahman
Bengali poet, journalist, and human rights advocate
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Gardner Cowles, Jr.
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John Brown Russwurm
American editor, publisher, and statesman
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Samuel Irving Newhouse
American publisher
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John Cowles
American publisher
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Charles Edward Russell
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Joseph Medill McCormick
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Clark Howell
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American publisher

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