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  1. Joseph Medill Patterson (January 6, 1879 – May 26, 1946) was an American journalist, publisher and founder of the Daily News in New York. At the time of his death the Daily News maintained a Sunday circulation of 4.5 million copies, the largest circulation of any paper in the United States.

  2. Apr 1, 2024 · Joseph Medill Patterson (born January 6, 1879, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died May 26, 1946, New York, New York) was an American journalist, coeditor and publisher—with his cousin Robert Rutherford McCormick—of the Chicago Tribune from 1914 to 1925; he subsequently became better known as editor and publisher of the New York Daily News, the ...

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  3. Joseph Medill Patterson (January 6, 1879 – May 26, 1946) was an American journalist and publisher, the grandson of publisher Joseph Medill. He was the older brother of fellow publisher Cissy Patterson and the father of Alicia Patterson, founder and editor of New York’s Newsday.

  4. Joseph Medill Patterson. Birth. 6 Jan 1879. Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Death. 26 May 1946 (aged 67) New York, New York County, New York, USA. Burial. Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA Show Map. Plot. Section 6, Grave 5681. Memorial ID. 796. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 2. Flowers 80.

  5. Sep 13, 2022 · The newspaper publisher Joseph Medill Patterson is alleged to have ranked the subjects most popular with his 1920s readers: “ (1) Love or Sex, (2) Money, (3) Murder.”. The best stories — the...

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  7. Oct 13, 2011 · Alicia Patterson, great-­grandchild of Joseph Medill, was the longtime publisher of Newsday. Photograph by Time Life Pictures/Pix Inc./Time Life Pictures/Getty Images. Contra McKinney, the...

  8. Mar 2, 2024 · He died in New York on May 26, 1946 and is buried, along with his wife (Mary King Patterson) in Section 6 of Arlington National Cemetery. A member of the sprawling Medill newspaper family, Joseph Medill Patterson was born in Chicago in 1879.

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