Bennett, James Gordon (1795-1872)
When James Gordon Bennett Sr. died on June 1, 1872, his old rival Horace Greeley's New York Tribune eulogized: "He developed the capacities of journalis...
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The Scottish-born American journalist James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872) developed editorial techniques that promoted readership and freed the press of its need for financial support from political part...
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Rival publishers grudgingly recognized James Gordon Bennett as the most successful of the revolutionaries who created modern journalism in the mid-nineteenth century. The news-gathering enterprise of ...
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