New York Post - Rupert Murdoch, Richard Cunningham McCormick, William Cullen Bryant, Norman Cousins, Henry Villard, Phil Mushnick (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Rupert Murdoch, Richard Cunningham Mccormick, William Cullen Bryant, Norman Cousins, Henry Villard, Phil Mushnick, Franklin Pierce Adams, Nancy Hicks Maynard, Peter S. Kalikow, Murray Kempton, Oswald Garrison Villard, Dorothy Schiff, Leo Katcher, Jared Paul Stern, Clive Barnes, Warren Hoge, Sylvia Porter, Douglas Harriman Kennedy, Joseph P. Lash, Clyde Haberman, Peter Vecsey, Fredric U. Dicker, Jerry Nachman, Tim J. Sullivan, Richard Watts, Jr., Leo D'angelo. Excerpt: The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although as is the case with most other papers its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions. Since 1993, it has been owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which had owned it previously from 1976 to 1988. It is the sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. by circulation. Its editorial offices are located at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, in New York City, New York. The New York Post, established on Nov. 16, 1801 as the New-York Evening Post, describes itself as the nation's oldest continuously published daily newspaper. The Hartford Courant, which describes itself as the nation's oldest continuously published newspaper, was founded in 1764 as a semi-weekly paper; it did not begin publishing daily until 1836. The New Hampshire Gazette, which has trademarked its claim of being The Nation's Oldest Newspaper, was founded in 1756, also as a weekly. Moreover, since the 1890s it has been published only for weekends. The Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US$10,000 from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as the New-York Evening Post, a broadsheet. Hamilton's co-inv... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=102227