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James Gordon Bennett, Sr.: Herald of Great Newspapers | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel Alef
Publisher: Titans of Fortune Publishing
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Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
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Biographical profile of James Gordon Bennett, Sr. one of America's most colorful newspaper pioneers. In 1835, he launched the New York Herald, a penny paper of four four-column pages. He began on the road to riches with an investment of $500 and rented an office in a Wall St. cellar, yet in less than a year his daily circulation topped 15,000. Bennett employed many innovations we take for granted today and made the paper a landmark in the history of American journalism. He was politically nondenominational, criticizing all political parties with equal venom. He established new fields of news, including Wall St. finance and a society section. Bennett was also among the first to use European correspondents, telegraphy for the news, illustrations. and to report sensational murder trials. Bennett gained substantial recognition for his efforts to report the Civil War, sending more than 60 correspondents to the various fronts and spending half a million dollars to cover the cost of reporting the war. This is a story of a man who provided New Yorkers with news and sensation, satisfying their appetites and passions. More so, some regard him as the man who invented the modern newspaper and modern media. And he was the publisher who funded Henry Stanley's trip to Africa in search of David Livingstone.
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