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William James Herder (1849–1922), publisher, born Old Perlican, Newfoundland Colony, was the founder of Newfoundland's first daily newspaper, The Evening Telegram.. Herder was educated at Methodist Academy and in 1863 had apprenticed as a printer for the Courier.
The same could not be said of former Evening Telegram reporter Joey Smallwood, who worked for the paper from 1919 to 1922 (including a short stint as editor in 1923). After his association with The Evening Telegram , Smallwood went on to found the pro-Confederation newspaper The Confederate , lead Newfoundland into confederation with Canada ...
More than 2,000 employees of the morning, evening and Sunday editions of the World lost their jobs in the merger, although some star writers, including Heywood Broun and Westbrook Pegler, were kept on the new paper. The World-Telegram enjoyed a reputation as a liberal paper for some years after the merger, based on memories of the Pulitzer ...
The New York Evening Telegram was a New York City daily newspaper. It was established in 1867. The newspaper was published by James Gordon Bennett, Jr., and it was said to be considered to be an evening edition of the New York Herald. Frank Munsey acquired the Telegram in 1920, which ceased its connection to the Herald. [1]
This is a list of defunct newspapers of the United States.Only notable names among the thousands of such newspapers are listed, primarily major metropolitan dailies which published for ten years or more.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
The Worcester Telegram and Evening Gazette were separate newspapers founded in the 19th century. T.T. Ellis bought both papers in 1920, and sold them in 1925 to Harry Stoddard, Robert's father, and George Booth, a former Telegram editor. [8] Later, Robert Stoddard took over ownership of the two newspapers, as well as the main radio station in ...