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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
Carlos P. Romulo
Filipino diplomat
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
Hearst, William Randolph
William Randolph Hearst
American newspaper publisher
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
Whitney, John Hay
John Hay Whitney
American sportsman and businessman
Ellen Browning Scripps
American publisher and philanthropist
Schurz
Carl Schurz
German-American politician
Marie Mattingly Meloney
American journalist and editor
Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson
American poet and journalist
A.S. Abell
American journalist
John S. Knight.
John S. Knight
American journalist and publisher
Roy W. Howard
American journalist
John Peter Zenger
American printer
Ralph McGill
American journalist
Isaiah Thomas
American journalist
George Creel.
George Creel
American journalist