The Press: Half-Century

In 1881 the New York Evening Post, already 80 years old, was merged with Editor Edwin Lawrence Godkin's Nation. The small New York Times (published by Raymond & Jones) was 30, and Adolph Ochs was editing his Chattanooga Times. James Gordon Bennett the Elder was dead, succeeded by his son as publisher of the Herald. Joseph Pulitzer was about to leave St. Louis (after one of his editors shot a prominent citizen) to go to Manhattan and, as things turned out, to buy the World. Frank Munsey was a telegraph operator in Augusta, Me. Edward Wyllis Scripps had started his...