Newark Evening News
 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Founded | 1883 |
| Ceased publication | 1972 |
The Newark Evening News was an American newspaper published in
History
The News was founded in 1883 by Wallace Scudder.[2] The newspaper was operated by the Scudder family for 86 of its 88 years. The grandson of Wallace Scudder, Richard Scudder, worked as the newspaper's publisher from 1952 until 1972.[2]
For years, the paper thrived as a daily and Sunday paper. It had five editorial writers, an editorial cartoonist, a military writer, and an aviation writer. The paper even had a Sunday magazine. However, a great deal of the paper's focus was on politics.[3]
In 1970, the paper was sold to
The paper folded on August 31, 1972.[4]
The former headquarters of the paper in Downtown Newark is now a residential condominium. [5]
Historic research
Since its demise, the Newark Public Library acquired the paper's records. [6] The Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center at Newark Public Library owns the News's indices and clippings files, as well as a full run of microfilm. [6] They have digitized the paper up through 1931. [7]
Distinguished Newark Evening News alumni
- John T. Cunningham, prolific and wide-ranging writer on the history of New Jersey.
- Lloyd M. Felmly, Editor of the Newark Evening News and a friend of public health. There is an award set up in his honor. Lloyd M. Felmly Award: Established in 1976, the annual award is presented to an individual for outstanding contribution in the media to the cause of public health in New Jersey.
- Howard Roger Garis, reporter, who created the Uncle Wiggily character as a News reporter. His Uncle Wiggily books later sold in the millions, and the Wiggily character appeared daily in the News for nearly four decades. He also wrote the first 32 volumes in the Tom Swift, series, written under the pen name Victor Appleton.
- Lilian McNamara (Garis). The first female reporter on the News, she later married fellow News reporter, Howard Garis. She helped launch the Bobbsey Twins series and wrote some of the early volumes.
- George P. Oslin, leading reporter. He later became Public Relations head of Western Union, and in 1933 invented the singing telegram.
- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for "Who, Me?"
- Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles.
- series.
- Arthur Sylvester headed the News bureau in Washington, D.C.. In 1960, he joined the Kennedy administration as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.
- Cecil Dorrian was one of two accredited female war correspondents during WWI and wrote for the News
References
- ^ "Newark Evening News preservation". The Second Century. vol. 9, no. 3. Fall 1998. The Newark Public Library.
- ^ New York Times. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
- ^ Sachsman, David; Warren Sloat (1985). The Press and the Suburbs: The Daily Newspapers of New Jersey. Piscataway, New Jersey: The Center for Urban Policy Research.
- ^ a b c d "The Once Great Newark Evening News: A Remembrance & Obituary". newarkmemories.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ https://knowingnewark.npl.org/relics-of-industry-and-commerce-reborn-as-gracious-homes/
- ^ a b "Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center". Newark Public Library. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- ^ "The Newark Public Library | Archives". www.digifind-it.com. Retrieved 2022-01-07.
- Mackin, Tom (August 30, 1981). "The Newark News: In Memoriam". The New York Times.