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The
New York Tribune was an American newspaper, first established by
Horace Greeley in
1841, which was long considered one of the leading
newspapers in the
United States. In 1924 it was merged with the
New York Herald to form the
New York Herald Tribune, which ceased publication in 1967.
History
The
Tribune was created by Greeley with the hopes of providing a straightforward, trustworthy media source in an era when newspapers such as the
New York Sun and
New York Herald thrived on sensationalism. Although considered the least partisan of the leading newspapers, the
Tribune did reflect some of Horace Greeley's idealist views. His journal had
Karl Marx (and
Friedrich Engels) as
European correspondent in the early 1850s.
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During Greeley's editorship, the paper was aided by able writers including
Charles Anderson Dana,
George William Curtis,
William Henry Fry,
Bayard Taylor,
Margaret Fuller,
George Ripley, and
Henry Jarvis Raymond.
During the
American Civil War (1861–1865) the
Tribune was a radical Republican newspaper, which supported abolition and subjection of the Confederacy instead of negotiated peace. During the first few months of the war, the Tribune's "on to
Richmond" slogan pressured
Union general
Irvin McDowell into advancing on Richmond before his army was ready, resulting in the disaster of the
First Battle of Manassas on
July 21,
1861. After the failure of the
Peninsular Campaign in the spring of 1862, the
Tribune pressured
President Abraham Lincoln into installing
John Pope as commander of the
Army of Virginia.
Following Greeley's defeat for the presidency of the
United States in 1872,
Whitelaw Reid, owner of the
New York Herald, assumed control of the
Tribune. Greeley checked into
Dr. Choate’s Sanitarium where he died a few weeks later. Under Reid's son,
Ogden Mills Reid, the paper acquired the
New York Herald to form the
New York Herald Tribune, which continued to be run by Ogden M. Reid until his death in 1947.
Copies of the
New York Tribune are available on
microfilm at many large libraries. Indices from selected years in the late nineteenth century are available on the
Library of Congress'
website. The original paper articles from the newspaper's
morgue are kept at
The Center for American History at the
University of Texas at Austin.
New paper, same name
A "new"
New York Tribune debuted in 1983 in New York City. The paper, which later changed its name to
The New York City Tribune, was published by the Reverend Moon's
Unification Church. It was published out of the former Tiffany building at 401 Fifth Avenue until it folded around 1993.
The "Moonie newspaper", as many came to know it, was the sister paper of today's
Washington Times which is circulated primarily in the nation's capital. Both were published by News World Communications, Inc. The
Tribune carried an expansive "Commentary" section with a decidedly
conservative bent. It worked hard, as does today's
Washington Times, to demonstrate complete editorial independence from Moon's Unification Church. Indeed, included among the noteworthies who penned an occasional column for it was former New York City Mayor
Ed Koch. However, from time to time Moon's Unifiction Church would make its presence felt. Today's
Washington Times, which has a substantially higher circulation than the new
New York Tribune ever did, isn't completely immune to the Korean evangelist's influence.
Former Tribune buildings today
- The New York Tribune building was the first home of Pace University. Today, the site where the building once stood is now the One Pace Plaza complex of Pace University's New York City campus. Dr. Choate’s residence and private hospital, where Horace Greeley died, today is part of the campus of Pace University in Pleasantville, New York.
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