''The New York Enquirer'' has been the name of two unrelated newspapers published in
New York City
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.
19th-century version
The ''New York Enquirer'' was founded in 1826 by
Mordecai Noah. According to the masthead, it was "published every Tuesday and Friday at No. 1 Williams St., New York, New York". Noah was a strong supporter of
Andrew Jackson
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and published often highly slanted pro-Jackson news reporting, along with international news.
By the early 1830s it had merged with a
Whig paper to become the ''
New York Courier and Enquirer
The ''New York Courier and Enquirer'', properly called the ''Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer'', was a daily broadsheet newspaper published in New York City from June 1829 until June 1861, when it was merged into the ''New York World''. Thro ...
''.
20th-century version
Founded in 1926, as a Sunday weekly by
William Randolph Hearst
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protégé William Griffin, the second ''New York Enquirer'' was charged with sedition in 1942 for its editorials opposing US involvement in World War II.
It was sold in 1952, converted into a
tabloid and subsequently renamed ''
The National Enquirer
The ''National Enquirer'' is an American tabloid newspaper. Founded in 1926, the newspaper has undergone a number of changes over the years.
The ''National Enquirer'' openly acknowledges that it pays sources for tips, a common practice in tabl ...
''; see that article for more information.
References
External links
Noah, Mordecai Manuel The ''New York Enquirer''
Defunct newspapers published in New York City
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