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Mar 6, 2020 · Horace Greeley thought he could fix American newspapers—a medium that had been transformed by the emergence of an urban popular journalism that was bold in its claims, sensational in its...
May 18, 2018 · Died November 29, 1872. New York City, New York. Newspaper publisher and abolitionist. Author Lewis Leary. H orace Greeley was America's leading journalist of the Civil War era. He was the founder and editor of the New York Tribune, America's most popular newspaper of the mid-nineteenth century.
Jul 3, 2019 · The legendary editor Horace Greeley was one of the most influential Americans of the 1800s. He founded and edited the New-York Tribune, a substantial and very popular newspaper of the period. Greeley's opinions, and his daily decisions on what constituted news impacted American life for decades.
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was a newspaper editor, reformer, and politician. His New York Tribune was one of America's most influential sources of news in the mid-nineteenth century. Greeley used the paper to promote the Whig and Republican parties, as well as abolitionism and other reforms.
Horace Greeley, (born Feb. 3, 1811, Amherst, N.H., U.S.—died Nov. 29, 1872, New York, N.Y., U.S.), U.S. newspaper editor and political leader. Greeley was a printer’s apprentice in Vermont before moving to New York City, where he edited a literary magazine and weeklies for the Whig Party.
Horace Greeley was born in February 1811, in New Hampshire. He loved reading books, and when he was 15 years old, he was apprenticed to a printer in Vermont. In 1841, he founded the New York Tribune and quickly gained a reputation as one of the best journalists in New York City.
Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811-November 29, 1872), Universalist journalist, reformer, and politician, is best known as the longtime, innovative publisher and editor of the New York Tribune.
