The
New York Tribune was an American
newspaper, first established by Horace
Greeley in 1841, which was long considered one of the leading
newspapers in the United States
. In 1924 it was merged with the
New York Herald to form the
New York Herald
Tribune, which ceased publication in 1967.
History
The
Tribune was created by Greeley with the hopes of
providing a straightforward, trustworthy media source in an era
when newspapers such as the
New York Sun and
New York Herald thrived on
sensationalism. Although considered the least partisan of the
leading newspapers, the
Tribune did reflect some of Horace
Greeley's idealist views. His journal retained
Karl Marx as European correspondent in 1851;
although Marx viewed the
Tribune as a 'flthy rag' , the
arrangement, whereby his collaborator
Engels also submitted articles under the
by-line, lasted ten years, the final Marx column being published in
Feb 1861.
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During Greeley's editorship, the paper was aided by able writers
including
Charles Anderson
Dana,
George William
Curtis,
William Henry Fry,
Bayard Taylor,
Margaret Fuller,
George Ripley, and
Henry Jarvis Raymond.
During the
American Civil War
(1861–1865) the
Tribune was a
radical Republican newspaper, which
supported
abolition and subjection of
the
Confederacy
instead of negotiated peace.
During the first few months of the war, the
Tribune's "on to Richmond
" slogan pressured Union general Irvin McDowell into advancing on Richmond
before his army was ready, resulting in the disaster of the
First Battle of
Manassas
on July 21, 1861. After the failure of the
Peninsular Campaign in the
spring of 1862, the
Tribune pressured
President Abraham Lincoln into installing
John Pope as commander of the
Army of Virginia.
Following
Greeley's defeat for the presidency of the United States in 1872, Whitelaw
Reid, owner of the New York Herald, assumed control of
the Tribune. Greeley checked into
Dr. Choate’s Sanitarium where he died a
few weeks later. Under Reid's son,
Ogden Mills Reid, the paper acquired the
New York Herald to form the
New York Herald
Tribune, which continued to be run by Ogden M. Reid until
his death in 1947.
Copies of the
New York Tribune are available on
microfilm at many large libraries.
Indices from selected
years in the late nineteenth century are available on the Library of
Congress
' website. The original paper articles from the
newspaper's morgue are kept at The Center for
American History at the University of
Texas at Austin
.
New paper, same name
A "new"
New York Tribune debuted in 1983 in New York City.
The paper, which later changed its name to
The New York City
Tribune, was published by News World Communications, Inc.,
owned by the
Unification Church.
It was published out of the former Tiffany building at 401 Fifth
Avenue until it printed its last edition on January 3, 1991. Its
sister paper
The Washington
Times is circulated primarily in the nation's capital. The
Tribune carried an expansive "Commentary" section of
opinions and editorials. Among those who wrote columns for it was
former New York City Mayor
Ed Koch.
Former Tribune buildings today
- The New York Tribune building was the first home of Pace University. Today, the site where the
building once stood is now the One Pace
Plaza complex of Pace
University's New York City campus. Dr. Choate’s residence
and private hospital, where Horace Greeley died, today is part of
the campus of Pace University in Pleasantville, New York
.
- On December 15, 1921 The New York Tribune bought two
plots of ground at 219 and 220 West 40th Street. The headquarters
that The New York Tribune built at that site is now the
home of the City College of New York's Graduate School of
Journalism.
In Popular Culture
- The Tribune was referenced in the popular 19th century
ballad No Irish Need Apply as
the paper of choice of the anti-Irish antagonist in the song.
Footnotes
- New York Times. (Late Edition (East Coast)). New York, N.Y.:
Jan 5, 1991. pg. 1.24 [1]
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