New York Herald
Circulation | 84,000 (1861) |
The New York Herald was a large-distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between 1835 and 1924. At that point it was acquired by its smaller rival the New-York Tribune to form the New York Herald Tribune.
History
The first issue of the paper was published by James Gordon Bennett Sr., on May 6, 1835.[1] The Herald distinguished itself from the partisan papers of the day by the policy that it published in its first issue: "We shall support no party—be the agent of no faction or coterie, and we care nothing for any election, or any candidate from president down to constable," although it was typically considered sympathetic to the Jacksonian Democratic Party and later, President John Tyler. Bennett pioneered the "extra" edition during the Herald's sensational coverage of the Robinson–Jewett murder case.[2]
By 1845 it was the most popular and profitable daily newspaper in the United States.
In April 1867 Bennett turned over control of the paper to his son
In 1874 the Herald ran the
On October 4, 1887, Bennett Jr. sent
After Bennett Jr. died in 1918, Frank Munsey acquired control of the New York Herald (including its European Edition).[12] In 1924 Munsey sold the paper to the family of Ogden Reid, owners of the New-York Tribune, creating the New York Herald Tribune (and the International Herald Tribune with a divergent future).
When the Herald was still under the authority of its original publisher Bennett Sr., it was considered to be the most intrusive and sensationalist of the leading New York papers.[citation needed] Its ability to entertain the public with timely daily news made it the leading circulation paper of its period.
European edition
During the time of original publisher Bennett, the New York Herald was perhaps the best-known American paper in Europe.[13] Its first issue came out on October 4, 1887.[14] The official name of the paper on its front page masthead was The New York Herald European Edition—Paris.[15] But it became widely known as simply the Paris Herald.[16]
Publisher Bennett Jr. referred to the paper as a "village publication" for the circle of people in Paris who were interested in international news.[17] Indeed, during its first decades of publication, a feature of the paper was a list of every American known to be in Paris at the time, culled from inspections of hotel registries.[14] Even as the paper's audience grew, most of its readers were in France or countries near France.[17]
The European edition consistently lost money into the 1910s.[14] As the time of Paris in World War I began, Bennett Jr. kept the paper running, even during the First Battle of the Marne when some French papers shut down.[14] When the American Expeditionary Forces began arriving in France in 1917, demand for the Paris Herald soared, with eventually some 350,000 copies being printed each day and the edition finally becoming profitable.[14]
The European edition subsequently became a mainstay of American
Evening Telegram
The New York Evening Telegram was founded in 1867 by the junior Bennett, and was considered by many to be an evening edition of the Herald. Frank Munsey acquired the Telegram in 1920 and ended its connection to the Herald.[19]
Commemorated
- New York's Herald Square is named after the New York Herald newspaper.[20]
- The Antonin Carles, sounded every hour with bellringing.
- After the building was demolished in 1921 to make way for other development, the sculpture was installed on the north side of Herald Square, and the sound was stopped.
- The chorus of "Give My Regards to Broadway" includes the phrase "[R]emember me to Herald Square." North of Herald Square is Times Square, which is named after the rival The New York Times.
See also
- Porter Cornelius Bliss
- New York Herald Tribune (successor to the New York Herald)
References
- ^ a b Crouthamel, James (1989). Bennett's New York Herald and the Rise of the Popular Press. Syracuse University Press.
- ISBN 0761315020.
- Harcourt, Brace and Company. p. 87.
- ISBN 978-1-62674-117-1.
- ^ New Outlook. Outlook Publishing Company, Incorporated. 1892. pp. 489–.
- ^ Greene, Bryan (October 6, 2020). "When Opera Star Jenny Lind Came to America, She Witnessed a Nation Torn Apart Over Slavery". Smithsonian. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
- ^ Harris, Gale (November 21, 1995). "Bennett Building" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. p. 7. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
- ^ Carey, John (March 18, 2007). "A good man in Africa ?". The Sunday Times. Retrieved November 15, 2007.
- ISBN 978-0-7864-8671-7.
- ^ Connery, T. B. (June 3, 1893). A Famous Newspaper Hoax, Harper's Weekly, p. 534
- ^ "Jacques S. Halle dies". The Sun. New York. December 2, 1916. p. 5.
- ^ "International New York Times (newspaper)". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
- ISBN 9780815624615.
- ^ a b c d e Richard Reeves, "The Paris Tribune at One Hundred", American Heritage Magazine, November 1987. Volume 38, Issue 7.
- ^ "International Herald Tribune Historical Archive 1887–2013" (PDF). Gale Cengage. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
- ^ Kluger 1986, pp. 790 and passim.
- ^ JSTOR 24589648.
- Irish Times. October 12, 2013.
- ^ "The Telegram Sold to Scripps-Howard". The New York Times. February 12, 1927.
- ISBN 978-0470637234.
External links
- The New York Herald 1842-1920 Many Editions Digitized Online at The Library of Congress
- Three months with the New York Herald: or, Old news on board of a homeward ... by John Henry Potter
- Photographs and architectural sketches of the New York Herald Building
- A winter evening in a crowded Herald Square at the New York Herald Building, oil on board painting