The ''New York Press'' was a
New York City
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newspaper
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founded by
Robert Percival Porter Robert Percival Porter (June 30, 1852 – February 28, 1917) was an American journalist, diplomat, and statistician who wrote on economic subjects. He served as Superintendent of the Census (1889–1893). In the statistical field, the first use of ...
and Frank Hatton in December 1887.
It continued publication until July 2, 1916, when its owner
Frank Munsey
Frank Andrew Munsey (August 21, 1854 – December 22, 1925) was an American newspaper and magazine publisher and author. He was born in Mercer, Maine, but spent most of his life in New York City. The village of Munsey Park, New York is named ...
merged it with his newly-purchased ''
Sun
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''. The ''New York Press'' published notable writers such as
Stephen Crane
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.
Its editor
Erwin Wardman coined the term "
yellow journalism
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" in early 1897, to refer to the work of
Joseph Pulitzer
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's ''
New York World
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'' and
William Randolph Hearst
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's ''
New York Journal
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''. Wardman was the first to publish the term but there is evidence that expressions such as "yellow journalism" and "school of yellow kid journalism" were already used by newsmen of that time. Wardman never defined the term exactly, although possibly it was a mutation from an earlier slander where Wardman twisted "
new journalism
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" into "nude journalism". In 1898 the paper simply elaborated: "We called them Yellow because they are Yellow."
''Press'' Sports Editor
Jim Price coined the name "
Yankees
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" to describe the New York American League baseball team, then known as the "Highlanders".
Ernest J. Lanigan, a renowned
baseball statistician who founded ''Baseball Magazine'' and published ''
The Baseball Cyclopedia
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'', the first encyclopedia about
"America's Pastime", also served as sports editor on the ''Press''.
Early issues of the New York Press are, as of yet unavailable online, however they can be found on microfilm at the New York Public Library.
[New York Public Library]
References
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Defunct newspapers published in New York City
Publications established in 1887