- Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism. - William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst I (April 29, 1863 - August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate. - James Gordon Bennett Jr.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (May 10, 1841 in - May 14, 1918 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France), was publisher of the "New York Herald", founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett, Sr.. Bennett was educated primarily in France. In 1866, the elder Bennett turned control of the "Herald" over to him. - James C. Quayle
James Cline Quayle (May 25, 1921 - July 7, 2000) was an American newspaper publisher and businessman who owned several newspapers in the United States including the "Huntington Herald-Press" in Indiana and the "Wickenburg Sun" in Arizona. He was the father of Dan Quayle, the 44th Vice-President of the United States. Quayle was born in Joliet, Illinois, the son of Robert H. and Marie Cline Quayle. - Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 - November 29, 1872) was an American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Republican party, reformer and politician. His "New York Tribune" was America's most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s and "established Greeley's reputation as the greatest editor of his day." Greeley used it to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as antislavery and a host of reforms. - James Gordon Bennett Sr.
James Gordon Bennett (1 September 1795 - 1 June 1872), was the founder, editor and publisher of the "New York Herald" and a major figure in the history of American newspapers. Born to a poor farmer in Newmill, Scotland, Bennett immigrated to Nova Scotia, where he taught bookkeeping, then to Portland, Maine. He was in Boston by January 1820. He worked as a proofreader and bookseller before the "Charleston Courier" hired him to translate Spanish news reports. - Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923) was an American politician and the twenty-ninth President of the United States, from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher with a commanding presence and a flair for public speaking. He served in the Ohio Senate (1899-1903) and later as lieutenant governor of Ohio (1903-1905) and as a U.S. Senator (1915-1921). - E. W. Scripps
Edward Wyllis Scripps (June 18, 1854 - March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher and founder of The E.W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press International news syndicate. The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University is named for him. - Melville E. Stone
Melville Elijah Stone (born August 22, 1848 in Hudson, Illinois - died February 15, 1929 in New York City) was a newspaper publisher, the founder of the "Chicago Daily News", who became well known as the general manager of the reorganized Associated Press. Stone was the son of a Methodist minister, the Rev. Elijah and Sophia Creighton Stone. In 1876, Stone, who started out as a reporter, founded the first Chicago penny paper, the "Chicago Daily News". - Otis Chandler
Otis Chandler (November 23 1927-February 27 2006) was best known as the publisher of the "Los Angeles Times" between 1960 and 1980. His family had owned the newspaper since Harrison Gray Otis founded the company in 1882. He was the son of Norman Chandler, his predecessor as publisher, and Dorothy Buffum Chandler, a patron of the arts and a Regent of the University of California. After attending his parents' alma mater, Stanford University, … - William Randolph Hearst Jr.
William Randolph Hearst, Jr. became editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father William Randolph Hearst and won a Pulitzer Prize for his interview with Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev and associated commentaries in 1955. William Randolph Hearst, Jr. attended the University of California, Berkeley and was a member of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. He was instrumental in restoring some measure of family control to the Hearst Corporation, … - William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison (December 12, 1805-May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, "The Liberator", and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. - James M. Cox
James Middleton Cox (March 31, 1870 - July 15, 1957) was a Governor of Ohio, U.S. Representative from Ohio and Democratic candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1920. Cox was born in the tiny Butler County, Ohio village of Jacksonburg. Cox practiced a variety of trades throughout his life: high school teacher, reporter, owner and editor of several newspapers, and secretary to Congressman Paul J. Sorg. - Adolph Ochs
Adolph Simon Ochs (b. March 12, 1858-April 8, 1935) was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of "The New York Times" and "The Chattanooga Times" (now the Chattanooga Times Free Press). Ochs was born to German-Jewish immigrants, Julius and Bertha Levy Ochs, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The family moved south to Knoxville, Tennessee due to his mother's Southern sympathies during the Civil War. Ochs began his newspaper career there at age 11, … - John Yarmuth
John Yarmuth is the U.S. Representative for. He is a former independent newspaper publisher. A Louisville native who graduated from Atherton High School in 1965, he graduated from Yale University, majoring in American Studies. After working for U.S. Senator Marlow Cook from 1971 to 1975, he returned to Louisville to begin his publishing career when he founded the "Louisville Today" magazine (1976–1982). - John Lynch
John Lynch (February 18, 1825 - July 21, 1892) was a nineteenth century politician, merchant, manufacturer and newspaper publisher from Maine. Born in Portland, Maine, Lynch attended public schools as a child and graduated from Portland High School in 1842. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, was manager of the "Portland Daily Press" in 1862 and was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1862 to 1864. - Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891 - 1968) was the publisher of "The New York Times" from 1935 to 1961. During that time, daily circulation rose from 465,000 to 713,000 and Sunday circulation from 745,000 to 1.4 million; the staff more than doubled, reaching 5,200; advertising linage grew from 19 million to 62 million column inches per year; and gross income increased almost sevenfold, reaching 117 million dollars. - Simon Cameron
Simon Cameron (March 8, 1799 - June 26, 1889) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War. After making his fortune in railways and banking, he turned to a life of politics. He became a state senator in 1845 for the state of Pennsylvania, succeeding James Buchanan. Originally a Democrat, he failed to secure a nomination for senator from the Know-Nothing party, … - Gideon Welles
Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 - February 11, 1878) was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869. His buildup of the Navy to successfully execute blockades of Southern ports was a key component of Northern victory of the Civil War. Welles was also instrumental in the Navy's creation of the Medal of Honor. Born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, Welles earned a degree at Norwich University. He became a lawyer through the then-common practice of reading the law, … - Whitelaw Reid
Whitelaw Reid (October 27, 1837 - December 15, 1912) was a U.S. politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of a popular history of Ohio in the Civil War. A native of Ohio, Reid graduated from Miami University with honors in 1856. At Miami, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and lobbied for the expulsion of the six members who ultimately went on to found Sigma Chi. - Katharine Graham
Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, "The Washington Post", for more than two decades, overseeing its most famous period, the Watergate coverage that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger (b. February 5, 1926 New York City) is an American publisher and businessman. He succeeded his father and maternal grandfather as publisher and chairman of the "New York Times" in 1963, passing the positions to his son Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. in 1992. Sulzberger served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, from 1944 to 1946, in the Pacific theatre. - Harry Chandler
Harry Chandler was an American newspaper publisher and investor who became owner of the largest real estate empire in the U.S. Born in Landaff, New Hampshire, Chandler attended Dartmouth College. On a dare, he jumped into a vat of icewater during winter, which led to severe pneumonia. He withdrew from Dartmouth and moved to Los Angeles for his health. In L.A., while working in the fruit fields, … - Joseph Medill
Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 - March 16, 1899) is better known as the business manager and managing editor of the "Chicago Tribune" than as mayor of Chicago, although his term in office occurred during two of the most important years of the city's history as Chicago tried to rebuild in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire. Medill was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (born 22 September 1951, Mount Kisco, New York) became the publisher of "The New York Times" in 1992 and chairman of The New York Times Company in 1997. Sulzberger is the son of the previous "Times" publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and grandson of another "Times" publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. He is married to artist and journalist Gail Gregg. - Hodding Carter
William Hodding Carter, II (February 3, 1907 - April 4, 1972) was a prominent Southern progressive journalist and author. Carter was born in Hammond, the largest community in Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern Louisiana, to William Hodding Carter, I (1881-1955), and the former Irma Dutartre. Carter died in Greenville of a heart attack at the age of sixty-five. He is interred in the Greenville Cemetery. - George Jones
George Jones was an American journalist who co-founded with Henry Jarvis Raymond the "New-York Daily Times", now the "New York Times", publishing its first issue on September 18, 1851. Before founding the New-York Daily Times Jones was an Albany banker. Upon Raymond's death in 1869, Jones took over as publisher. Between 1870 and 1871 the newspaper published a series of exposés that contributed to the downfall of Boss Tweed and his corrupt city government. - John McLean
John McLean (March 11, 1785 - April 4, 1861) was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio and U.S. Supreme Courts. McLean was born in Morris County, New Jersey, the son of Fergus McLean and Sophia Blackford. After living in a succession of frontier towns, Morgantown, Virginia; Nicholasville, Kentucky; and Maysville, Kentucky; in 1797 his family settled in Ridgeville, Warren County, … - Harrison Gray Otis
Harrison Gray Otis (10 February 1837 - July 30, 1917) was the second publisher of the "Los Angeles Times". Born in Ohio, he was part of the Republican National Convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president. He volunteered for the Union army during the American Civil War and fought in William McKinley's regiment, the 23rd Ohio Infantry. After the war, he worked as a publisher before moving to California. - Thomas E. Watson
Thomas Edward Watson (September 5, 1856 - September 26, 1922), generally known as Tom Watson, was a United States politician from Georgia. In early years, Watson championed poor farmers and the working class; later he became a controversial publisher and Populist politician. Two years before his death, he was elected to the United States Senate. His virulent attacks on the Roman Catholic Church, African Americans, Jews, the League of Nations, … - Eugene C. Pulliam
Eugene Collins Pulliam (May 3, 1889 - June 23, 1975) was an American newspaper publisher and businessman who was the founder and longtime president of Central Newspapers Inc., a multi-billion dollar media corporation. Pulliam was born in a sod dugout house in Ulysses, Kansas, the son of the Reverend Irvin and Martha Ellen Collins Pulliam, Methodist missionaries sent to plant churches in the frontier towns of western Kansas. - Donald Newhouse
Donald Newhouse is one of the owners of Condé Nast Publications. With an estimated current net worth of around $7.3 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 100-richest person in America. Notable children Kathryn Michael Steven. Notable Grandchildren Andrew David Alex Robert Sarah and Kate. Quote by Donald Newhouse "As my Grandson would say. Wow!" - Cyrus McCormick
Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15 1809 - May 13 1884) was an American inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Corporation in 1902. He was born at Walnut Grove, the McCormick family farm in Rockbridge County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley on the western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His father, the inventor Robert Hall McCormick, worked for 16 years on a horse-drawn reaper. - Walter Annenberg
Walter H. Annenberg KBE (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American billionaire publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat. He was the son of Sarah and Moses "Moe" Annenberg, who published "The Daily Racing Form" and purchased "The Philadelphia Inquirer" in 1936. - Philip Merrill
Philip Merrill was an American diplomat, publisher, banker, and philanthropist who committed suicide while traveling alone on his boat in the Chesapeake Bay. - Samuel Brannan
Samuel Brannan (March 2, 1819 - May 14, 1889), was the first publicist of the California Gold Rush and the first millionaire because of the rush. "Brannan Street" in San Francisco is named after him. Brannan was born in Saco, Maine. As a teenager, his family moved to Ohio, where Brannan learned to be a printer. He joined the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Brannan moved to New York in 1844, and began printing "The New York Messenger", … - Robert Sengstacke Abbott
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (24 November, 1870 - February 29, 1940) was an African American lawyer and newspaper publisher. Born in Frederica, St. Simons Island, Georgia of former slave parents, Abbott studied the printing trade at Hampton Institute from 1892 to 1896. He received a law degree from Kent College of Law, Chicago in 1898, but because of race prejudice in the United States was unable to practice, despite attempts to establish law offices in Gary, Indiana, Topeka, … - Julius Ochs Adler
Julius Ochs Adler (December 3, 1892-October 3, 1955) was a U.S. publisher, journalist, and United States Army General. He was the president and publisher of "The Chatanooga Times", and general manager of "The New York Times" from 1935 until 1955. He became general manager at the Times after the death in 1935 of his uncle, Adolph Ochs. Julius Adler was an officer and decorated veteran of World War I, served in the Army Reserve between the two world wars, … - Richard Mellon Scaife
Richard Mellon Scaife (born July 3, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American billionaire and newspaper publisher. Scaife owns and publishes the "Pittsburgh Tribune-Review". With $1.2 billion, Scaife, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, is No. 283 on the 2005 Forbes 400. Scaife is particularly well known for his financial support of conservative public policy organizations over the past two decades. - Barry Bingham Sr.
George Barry Bingham, Sr., CBE, was the patriarch of a family that dominated local media in Louisville for several decades in the 20th century. Bingham's family owned a cluster of influential media properties — "The Courier-Journal" and "The Louisville Times" newspapers, plus WHAS Radio and Television. The papers had been purchased by his father, Col. Robert Worth Bingham, using proceeds from an inheritance left by his second wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, …
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