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California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ons and advertisements kept on increasing, so that in its third year it was necessary to issue supplementary pages, to accommodate its advertisers. The issue of March 3, 1849, contains this notice: For two months we have been obliged to leave out two to six columns of advertisements a day to make room for reading matter. In a dispute over the question of circulation with the Herald, the Tribune thus stated its own circulation on August 1, 1849: Daily, 13,330; weekly, 27,960; semi, 1,660; California edition, 1,920; European, 480. The circulation of the daily reached 45,000 before the war, and during the exciting times of that conflict it mounted to 90,000, while the weekly edition had 217,000 subscribers in some of the years between 1860 and 1872. The profits in 1859 were $86,000. Of its earnings in its first twenty-four years the sum of $382,000 was invested in real estate, and an average of $50,000 a year was divided among the stockholders. In 1850 Greeley gave an example of t
Utica (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
e public attention, if not always of the public approval. Greeley's own energy was tireless, his editorial contributions averaging three columns a day. There was no valuable news that he was afraid to print, nothing evil in his view that he was afraid to combat. The transcendentalists of the Boston Dial, to which Emerson and Margaret Fuller contributed, had a hearing in his columns, and the doings of a Millerite convention found publication. Greeley himself reported a celebrated trial at Utica, sending in from four to nine columns a day. He aroused a warm discussion by characterizing the whole moral atmosphere of the theater as unwholesome, and refusing to urge his readers to attend dramatic performances, as we would be expected to if we were to solicit and profit by its advertising patronage. Greeley always considered the stage inimical to many of his pet reforms. He remembered a song that he heard in a theater in derision of temperance, and a ridiculing of socialism by John
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
hapter on the Tribune in his Busy Life. In truth, the Tribune was his lasting monument. He had qualified himself to edit it. He had the courage to found it. He made it a greater power than has ever been exercised by another newspaper in the United States. He identified his own name with it as no other editor has been personally identified with the journal committed to his charge. Greeley had entered on his thirty-first year when the first number of the Tribune was issued, and had been a rmincing neutrality on the other. The rivalry that he had to face may be understood from the following list of newspapers published in New York city in November, 1842, with their estimated circulation, as given in Hudson's Journalism in the United States: CashPapersCirculation Herald,2 cents15,000 Sun,1 cent20,000 Aurora,2 cents5,000 Morning Post,2 cents3,000 Plebeian,2 cents2,000 Chronicle,1 cent5,000 Tribune,2 cents9,500 Union,2 cents1,000 Tattler,1 cent2,000 62,500 Sunday
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t on increasing, so that in its third year it was necessary to issue supplementary pages, to accommodate its advertisers. The issue of March 3, 1849, contains this notice: For two months we have been obliged to leave out two to six columns of advertisements a day to make room for reading matter. In a dispute over the question of circulation with the Herald, the Tribune thus stated its own circulation on August 1, 1849: Daily, 13,330; weekly, 27,960; semi, 1,660; California edition, 1,920; European, 480. The circulation of the daily reached 45,000 before the war, and during the exciting times of that conflict it mounted to 90,000, while the weekly edition had 217,000 subscribers in some of the years between 1860 and 1872. The profits in 1859 were $86,000. Of its earnings in its first twenty-four years the sum of $382,000 was invested in real estate, and an average of $50,000 a year was divided among the stockholders. In 1850 Greeley gave an example of the consistency of his view
Raymond (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ef local competitor, the Times, and an antagonist in views social and political. Greeley has said that Raymond showed more versatility and ability in journalism than any man of his age whom he ever met, and that he was the only one of his assistants with whom he had to remonstrate for doing more work than any human brain and frame could be expected long to endure. Young editors who grow discouraged under criticisms of their first work may find encouragement in contrasting this praise of Raymond's practised labor with the following description by Greeley of his first attempts (given in a private letter): Raymond is a good fellow, but utterly destitute of experience. . . . He went to work as a novice would, shears in hand, and cut out the most infernal lot of newspaper trash ever seen. He got in type a column of Lord Chatham, which you published a month ago, three or four column articles of amazing antiquity and stupidity, and then gave out an original translation of a notorious st
Aurora, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
he Tribune is thus set forth in his Busy Life: My leading idea was the establishment of a journal removed alike from servile partizanship on the one hand, and from gagging, mincing neutrality on the other. The rivalry that he had to face may be understood from the following list of newspapers published in New York city in November, 1842, with their estimated circulation, as given in Hudson's Journalism in the United States: CashPapersCirculation Herald,2 cents15,000 Sun,1 cent20,000 Aurora,2 cents5,000 Morning Post,2 cents3,000 Plebeian,2 cents2,000 Chronicle,1 cent5,000 Tribune,2 cents9,500 Union,2 cents1,000 Tattler,1 cent2,000 62,500 Sunday papers Atlas3,500 Times1,500 Mercury3,000 News500 Sunday Herald9,000 Wall Street papers Courier and Enquirer7,000 Journal of Commerce7,500 Express6,000 American1,800 Commercial Advertiser5,000 Evening Post2,500 Standard400 Saturday papers Brother Jonathan5,000 New World8,000 Spirit of the Times1,500 W
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ne's carriers to give up its distribution, and, failing in this, informed newsdealers that those who sold the Tribune could not handle the Sun. This action stirred up a war between the two papers, in which the public took a lively interest, and attention was thus called to a new venture which was confessedly so serious a competitor. Before he had begun the publication of the Tribune Greeley had hired as an editorial assistant on the New Yorker a young man who, while a college student in Vermont, had been a valued contributor to that journal. This was Henry J. Raymond, in later years the founder of the Tribune's chief local competitor, the Times, and an antagonist in views social and political. Greeley has said that Raymond showed more versatility and ability in journalism than any man of his age whom he ever met, and that he was the only one of his assistants with whom he had to remonstrate for doing more work than any human brain and frame could be expected long to endure. Y
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 5
makers gathered from all parts of the State, and with the State officials and the managers of both parties. There was probably not another man in this country who was then editing two newspapers, and the editor of one newspaper was a person to be pointed out in those days. The big circulation of the Log Cabin had still further increased his reputation, and in 1841 he received an urgent invitation to assume the editorship of the Madisonian, a weekly which it was proposed to publish in Washington, D. C., as an Administration daily, and to which he afterward contributed. He was therefore justified in his belief that (if he referred to editorial experience) he was in a better position to undertake the establishment of a daily newspaper than the great mass of those who try it and fail. As to his finances, he had a capital of about $2,000, half of it in printing material. A daily newspaper in New York required much less capital in those days than now, but a man of more careful business
J. Fenimore Cooper (search for this): chapter 5
ning Post.) During its first year the Tribune published a letter on the trial of the suit for libel brought by J. Fenimore Cooper against Thurlow Weed, in which the novelist secured a verdict of $400. The writer of this letter remarked: The value of Mr. Cooper's character, therefore, has been judicially ascertained. It is worth exactly $400. This led Cooper to sue Greeley for libel, and the trial took place in Saratoga, in December, 1842. Greeley argued his own case, and the jury gave thCooper to sue Greeley for libel, and the trial took place in Saratoga, in December, 1842. Greeley argued his own case, and the jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for $200. As soon as this result was announced, Greeley took a sleigh for Troy, where he caught a boat, and early the next morning he was at his desk writing his own report of the trial. This report, which filled twelve columns of the Tribune of December 12, 1842, he finished by 11 P. M.--the best single day's work I ever did. Cooper made this report the ground for another libel suit, but that suit never came to trial. A young newspaper can secure no advertising more
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in bad or injudicious hands is so. His purpose in publishing the Tribune is thus set forth in his Busy Life: My leading idea was the establishment of a journal removed alike from servile partizanship on the one hand, and from gagging, mincing neutrality on the other. The rivalry that he had to face may be understood from the following list of newspapers published in New York city in November, 1842, with their estimated circulation, as given in Hudson's Journalism in the United States: CashPapersCirculation Herald,2 cents15,000 Sun,1 cent20,000 Aurora,2 cents5,000 Morning Post,2 cents3,000 Plebeian,2 cents2,000 Chronicle,1 cent5,000 Tribune,2 cents9,500 Union,2 cents1,000 Tattler,1 cent2,000 62,500 Sunday papers Atlas3,500 Times1,500 Mercury3,000 News500 Sunday Herald9,000 Wall Street papers Courier and Enquirer7,000 Journal of Commerce7,500 Express6,000 American1,800 Commercial Advertiser5,000 Evening Post2,500 Standard400 Saturday papers Br
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