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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.

Location:
New York City

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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