The ''New York World-Telegram'', later known as the ''New York World-Telegram and The Sun'', was a New York City newspaper from 1931 to 1966.

History

Founded by

James Gordon Bennett Sr. James Gordon Bennett Sr. (September 1, 1795 – June 1, 1872) was the founder, editor and publisher of the ''New York Herald'' and a major figure in the history of American newspapers. Early life Bennett was born to a prosperous Roman Catholic ...

as ''The Evening Telegram'' in 1867, the newspaper began as the evening edition of '' The New York Herald'', which itself published its first issue in 1835. Following Bennett's death, newspaper and magazine owner Frank A. Munsey purchased ''The Telegram'' in June 1920. Munsey's associate Thomas W. Dewart, the late publisher and president of the '' New York Sun'', owned the paper for two years after Munsey died in 1925 before selling it to the

E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglomerate. The company is he ...

for an undisclosed sum in 1927. At the time of the sale, the paper was known as ''The New York Telegram'', and it had a circulation of 200,000.(February 12, 1927
The Telegram Sold to Scripps-Howard
'' The New York Times'' The newspaper became the ''World-Telegram'' in 1931, following the sale of the '' New York World'' by the heirs of Joseph Pulitzer to Scripps Howard. More than 2,000 employees of the morning, evening and Sunday editions of the ''World'' lost their jobs in the merger, although some star writers, like

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and Westbrook Pegler, were kept on the new paper. The ''World-Telegram'' enjoyed a reputation as a liberal paper for some years after the merger, based on memories of the Pulitzer-owned ''World''. However, under Scripps Howard the paper moved steadily to the right, eventually becoming a conservative bastion described by the press critic

A.J. Liebling Abbott Joseph Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with ''The New Yorker'' from 1935 until his death. He was known for, among other things, the aphorism "Freedom of the press bel ...

as "Republican, anti-labor, and suspicious of anything European." (Liebling also called the paper "the organ of New York's displaced persons (displaced from the interior of North America.)") In 1940, the paper carried a series of articles entitled "The Rape of China," which used Walter Judd's experiences with Japanese soldiers as the basis of support for a campaign to boycott Japanese goods. Publisher Roy Howard, an expert of sorts after travelling to Manchuria and Japan in the early 1930s, gave extensive coverage of Japanese atrocities in China. The paper's headline of December 8, 1941, read "1500 Dead in Hawaii" in its coverage of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

''New York World-Telegram and The Sun''

In 1950, the paper became the ''New York World-Telegram and The Sun'' after Dewart and his family sold Scripps the remnants of another afternoon paper, the ''New York Sun''.(January 4, 1950)
World-Telegram and Sun Merged in Transaction
''Prescott Evening Courier'' (Associated Press) (Liebling once described ''The Sun'' on the combined publication's

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as resembling the tail feathers of a canary on the chin of a cat.)

''New York World Journal Tribune''

Early in 1966, a proposal to create New York's first joint operating agreement led to the merger of the ''World-Telegram and The Sun'' with Hearst's '' Journal American''. The intention was to produce a joint afternoon edition, with a separate morning paper to be produced by the ''

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''. The last edition of the ''World-Telegram and The Sun'' was published on April 23, 1966.(April 24, 1966)
New York Newspaper Strike Set
''Sarasota Herald=Tribune'' (Associated Press) But when strikes prevented the JOA from taking effect, the papers instead united in August 1966 to become the short-lived '' New York World Journal Tribune'', which lasted only until May 5, 1967. Its closure left New York City with three daily newspapers: '' The New York Times'', the '' New York Post'' and the ''

New York Daily News The New York ''Daily News'', officially titled the ''Daily News'', is an American newspaper based in Jersey City, NJ. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson as the ''Illustrated Daily News''. It was the first U.S. daily printed in ta ...

''. The archives of the paper are not available online, but they can be accessed at the Library of Congress, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and several research facilities in the state of New York.

Gallery

File:Albert Einstein citizenship NYWTS.jpg, ''World-Telegram'' photo of Albert Einstein receiving his

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papers File:Louis Armstrong restored.jpg, ''World-Telegram'' photo of

Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several era ...

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