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The Journalist (newspaper)

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Not to be confused with the magazine published by the National Union of Journalists in the UK, The Journalist (magazine).

The Journalist (1884 - 1907) was the first successful American trade newspaper covering journalism. It was founded as The Journalist: A Magazine for All Who Read and Write by Leander Richardson and Charles Alfred Byrne and published weekly, commencing with its first issue on March 22, 1884.[1][2][3]

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John Christian Freund became a partner in late 1884, and in January 1885, Charles J. Smith (former managing editor of the New York Star) bought the paper. Allan Forman was a long-time editor and owner of the paper.[4][5][6]

The paper published weekly through March 23, 1895, then suspended and restarted from April 17, 1897 to June 16, 1906, before switching to a monthly publication schedule.[3]

The paper was merged into Editor & Publisher (founded in 1901) in 1907.

References

  1. [1]
    Newspaperdom, Los Angeles Herald, Volume 25, Number 218, 6 May 1898
  2. [2]
    Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism, p. 155
  3. [3]
    Lee, Alfred McClung. The Daily Newspaper in America, Vol. 1, p. 228 (1937)
  4. [4]
    (29 January 1921). Who Started the Journalist?, Editor & Publisher, p. 32
  5. [5]
    The Eagle and Brooklyn, Volume 2, p. 1059 (1893)
  6. [6]
    (15 March 1914). Editor Dead, Toronto Sunday World


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