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The New York World

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Founded in 1860 and purchased by Joseph Pulitzer in 1883 for $346,000. In 1931 the World merged with the Evening Telegram, which combined to form the New York World-Telegram.

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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Franklin Pierce Adams
Columnist
15-Nov-1881 23-Mar-1960 New York columnist, The Conning Tower
Nellie Bly
Journalist
5-May-1864 27-Jan-1922 Ten Days in a Mad-House
Heywood Broun
Journalist
7-Dec-1888 18-Dec-1939 Muckraking reporter of the 1920s and '30s
James M. Cain
Novelist
1-Jul-1892 27-Oct-1977 The Postman Always Rings Twice
Henry Chadwick
Journalist
5-Oct-1824 20-Apr-1908 Father of baseball
Reginald De Koven
Composer
3-Apr-1859 16-Jan-1920 Oh, Promise Me
A. J. Liebling
Journalist
18-Oct-1904 28-Dec-1963 The New Yorker
Walter Lippmann
Journalist
23-Sep-1889 14-Dec-1974 Today and Tomorrow
Charles Merz
Journalist
23-Feb-1893 31-Aug-1977 Editor of the New York Times, 1938-61
Richard F. Outcault
Cartoonist
14-Jan-1863 25-Sep-1928 Yellow Kid
David Graham Phillips
Journalist
31-Oct-1867 24-Jan-1911 Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
Joseph Pulitzer
Business
10-Apr-1847 29-Oct-1911 Established the Pulitzer Prize
Alexander Woollcott
Critic
18-Jan-1887 23-Jan-1943 The Man Who Came to Dinner


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