NEWSPAPER

Newspaper famous for answering Virginia on 21 September 1897, that yes indeed there is a Santa Claus. Became defunct in 1949.

Another newspaper called The New York Sun was established 16 April 2002 with a conservative bent, but was shuttered in September 2008.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Samuel Hopkins Adams	Journalist	26-Jan-1871	15-Nov-1958	The Great American Fraud
Mortimer J. Adler	Philosopher	28-Dec-1902	28-Jun-2001	How to Read a Book
Kenneth Bialkin	Attorney	1929		Mergers & Acquisitions lawyer
Conrad Black	Business	25-Aug-1944		Rapacious newspaper mogul
Stu Bykofsky	Columnist	c. 1941		Philadelphia Daily News
Henry Chadwick	Journalist	5-Oct-1824	20-Apr-1908	Father of baseball
Walter E. Clark	Politician	7-Jan-1869	4-Feb-1950	Territorial Governor of Alaska, 1909-13
Richard Harding Davis	Author	18-Apr-1864	11-Apr-1916	Yellow-era journalist
Bruce Kovner	Activist	Feb-1945		Caxton Associates billionaire
Steven Milloy	Activist	?		JunkScience.com
Emmett Tyrrell	Columnist	1943		Publisher, The American Spectator

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