34-843: (Redirected from Ben Day ) Benjamin Day or Ben Day may refer to: Publishing [ edit ] Benjamin Henry Day (1810–1889), American illustrator and printer; founder of the original New York Sun Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (1838–1916), American illustrator and printer The Ben Day process , printing technology invented by Benjamin Henry Day Jr. Other [ edit ] Benjamin Day (cyclist) (born 1978), Australian professional road racing cyclist Benjamin M. Day, 11th director of Ellis Island , from 1926 to 1931 See also [ edit ] Day (surname) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
68-457: A groundbreaking series of articles by Malcolm Johnson , "Crime on the Waterfront". The series served as the basis for the 1954 movie On the Waterfront . The Sun ' s first female reporter was Emily Verdery Bettey , hired in 1868. Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd was hired as a reporter and fashion editor in the 1880s. Brainerd was one of the first women to become a professional editor, and perhaps
102-534: A hatter, and Mary Ely. Day started his printing career in 1824, at the Springfield Republican . In 1835, Day's Sun was responsible for publishing a story written by Richard Adams Locke about life on the Moon that was fictional, but was received by the general public as fact. The publicity of the article was widespread at the time and now is referred to as " The Great Moon Hoax ". Day is credited with stretching
136-433: A morning newspaper edited by Benjamin Day (1810–1889), with the slogan "It Shines for All". It cost only one penny (equivalent to 32¢ in 2023 ), was easy to carry, and had illustrations and crime reporting popular with working-class readers. It inspired a new genre across the nation, known as the penny press , which made the news more accessible to low-income readers at a time when most papers cost five cents. The Sun
170-606: A new paper called the New York World-Telegram and Sun . That paper continued for 16 years; in 1966, it joined with the New York Herald Tribune to briefly become part of the World Journal Tribune , preserving the names of three of the most historic city newspapers, which folded amid disputes with the unions representing its staff the following year. The Sun first gained notice for its central role in
204-407: A profit could be made selling to them. The offices of The Sun were initially located on Printing House Square , now called Park Row , Manhattan, and was next to New York City Hall and New York City Police Department . It had a pigeon house built on the roof of its New York office at Nassau Street , receiving news from New York Harbor . They also later used horses, steamships , trains, and
238-461: A review by John Grierson of Robert Flaherty 's film Moana , in which Grierson said the film had "documentary value". This is considered the origin of the term "documentary film". The newspaper's editorial cartoonist, Rube Goldberg , received the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for his cartoon, Peace Today . In 1949, The Sun won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for
272-477: A scene of the 1972 film The Godfather . The newspaper's offices were a converted department store at 280 Broadway, between Chambers and Reade streets in lower Manhattan, now known as " The Sun Building " and famous for the clocks that bear the newspaper's masthead and motto. They were recognized as a New York City landmark in 1986. The building now houses the New York City Department of Buildings . In
306-731: A scheme relating to the US Postal Service , resulting in number of trials and increasing public support for civil service reform . An evening edition, known as The Evening Sun , was introduced in 1887. The newspaper magnate Frank Munsey bought both editions of the paper in 1916 and merged The Evening Sun with his New York Press . The morning edition of The Sun was merged for a time with Munsey's New York Herald as The Sun and New York Herald , but in 1920, Munsey separated them again, killed The Evening Sun , and switched The Sun to an evening publishing format. From 1914 to 1919, The Sun moved its offices to 150 Nassau Street , one of
340-454: Is a story about the death of a New York newspaper called The Day , loosely based upon the Sun , which closed in 1950. The original Sun newspaper was edited by Benjamin Day, making the film's newspaper name a play on words (not to be confused with the real-life New London, Connecticut newspaper of the same name). The masthead of the original Sun is visible in a montage of newspaper clippings in
374-637: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Benjamin Henry Day Benjamin Henry Day (April 10, 1810 – December 21, 1889) was an American newspaper publisher who founded the New York Sun , the first penny press newspaper in the United States, in 1833. Day was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on April 10, 1810, to Henry Day,
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#1732863151024408-570: Is perhaps the most frequently quoted definition of the journalistic endeavor: " When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. " (The quotation is frequently attributed to Charles Dana , The Sun editor and part-owner between 1868 and his death in 1897.) From 1912, Don Marquis wrote a regular column, 'The Sundial', for the Evening Sun. In 1916, he used this to introduce his characters Archy and Mehitabel . In 1926, The Sun published
442-480: The New York Herald , founded by James Gordon Bennett , they covered murder cases such as Helen Jewett 's murder, the murder of John C. Colt 's murder, Samuel Colt 's brother, and Mary Rogers 's case near Sybil's Cave . The Sun and The Herald took sides in these cases, championing working class people over the traditional landed and mercantile elites which, during this era, held disproportionate power over
476-461: The Great Moon Hoax of 1835, a fabricated story of life and civilization on the Moon which the paper falsely attributed to British astronomer John Herschel and never retracted. The hoax featured man-bat creatures named the " Vespertilio -homo" that inhabited the moon and built temples. A Yale University delegation was sent to look after the article, and the whole story created much sensation at
510-525: The True Sun in 1840, which had but a brief run. In 1842, he created the Brother Jonathan , the first illustrated weekly in the U.S., which he ran for twenty years. Day constantly quarreled with George Wisner over the publication of abolitionist articles. Day considered himself democratic to Wisner's extreme abolitionist standpoint. From The New Yorker : The American newspaper business as we know it
544-491: The telegraph , the Pony Express and Royal Mail Ships . Moses Yale Beach 's sons, Alfred Ely Beach and Moses S. Beach , took over the paper following his retirement. He celebrated the event at his house on Chambers Street , along with the other editors of Gotham , with guests including Congressmen Horace Greeley and James Brooks , and Abraham Lincoln's Chairman Henry Jarvis Raymond . In 1868, Moses S. Beach sold
578-500: The 1994 movie The Paper , a fictional tabloid newspaper based in New York City bore the same name and motto of The Sun , with a slightly different masthead. In 2002, a new broadsheet was launched, styled The New York Sun , and bearing the old newspaper's masthead and motto. It was intended as a "conservative alternative" and local news-focused alternative to the more liberal The New York Times and other New York newspapers. It
612-662: The first full-time fashion editor in American newspaper history. In 1881, the heroic legend of sheriff Bartholomew Masterson, known as " Bat Masterson ", started from the coverage of a Sun reporter whom he had duped. He was a companion of Buffalo Bill , and fought at the Battle of Dodge City War , and was later the subject of a book titled Gunfighter in Gotham and the American TV series Bat Masterson . The film Deadline – U.S.A. (1952)
646-418: The first newspaper account of a suicide. This story was significant because it was the first about the death of an ordinary person. It changed journalism forever, making the newspaper an integral part of the community and the lives of the readers. Day was the first to hire reporters to go out and collect stories. Prior to this, newspapers dealt almost exclusively in articles about politics or reviews of books or
680-531: The first skyscrapers made of steel, and one of the tallest in the city at the time. The tower was close to the New York Times Building , Woolworth Tower , and New York City Hall . In 1919, The Sun moved its offices to the A.T. Stewart Company Building, site of America's first department store, at 280 Broadway between Reade and Chambers Streets. 280 Broadway was renamed " The Sun Building " in 1928. A clock featuring The Sun 's name and slogan
714-564: The nation's politics and economy. Benjamin Day 's brother-in-law, Moses Yale Beach , joined the venture in 1834, became co-owner in 1835, and a few years later, became sole proprietor, bringing a number of innovations to the industry. It became the largest among the Gotham papers for 20 years, sometimes eclipsed by the New-York Tribune or the New York Herald . The newspaper printed
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#1732863151024748-700: The newspaper to Charles A. Dana , the Assistant Secretary of War of Abraham Lincoln , and stayed a stockholder. In 1872 The Sun exposed the Crédit Mobilier Scandal , implicating a number of corrupt Congressmen and Vice President Schuyler Colfax in a corrupt scheme involving the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad , and in 1881 exposed the Star Route Scandal , implicating a number of high-profile politicians and businessmen in
782-513: The paper. In the 1940s, the newspaper was considered among the most conservative in New York City and was strongly opposed to the New Deal and labor unions. The Sun won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for an exposé of labor racketeering; it also published the early work of sportswriter W.C. Heinz . It continued until January 4, 1950, when it merged with the New York World-Telegram to form
816-406: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Day&oldid=1202965098 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
850-458: The street. Before long, Day was the most important publisher in New York. Day married Evelina Shepard (b. 1811) in 1831, and had four children: Henry (b. 1832), Mary Ely Day (1833–38), Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (1838–1916), the inventor of Ben-Day dots , and Clarence Shephard Day (1844–1927), a stockbroker (and father of author Clarence Shephard, Jr. ). New York Sun (historical) The Sun
884-559: The theater and relied, in the days before the organization of syndicates such as the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI), on items sent in by readers and unauthorized copies of stories from other newspapers. The Sun ' s focus on crime was the beginning of "the craft of reporting and storytelling". Crime news provided New Yorkers with information about how the city worked, dwelling on violations of justice, abuse of state power and corrupt schemes. The Sun
918-489: The time. On April 13, 1844, The Sun published a story by Edgar Allan Poe now known as " The Balloon-Hoax ", retracted two days after publication. The story told of an imagined Atlantic crossing by hot-air balloon. Today the paper is best known for the 1897 editorial " Is There a Santa Claus? " (commonly referred to as "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus"), written by Francis Pharcellus Church . John B. Bogart, city editor of The Sun between 1873 and 1890, made what
952-472: The truth that came to be known as sensationalism . Day is also credited for importing to the United States the London Plan , a system of newspaper distribution largely antiquated today in which the paper carriers buy newspapers in bulk from the publisher and sell the papers to the reading public for a profit. Day sold the Sun to his brother-in-law Moses Yale Beach for $ 40,000 in 1838. Afterwards he started
986-514: Was a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950. It was considered a serious paper, like the city's two more successful broadsheets , The New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune . The Sun was the first successful penny daily newspaper in the United States , and was for a time, the most successful newspaper in America. The paper had a central focus on crime news, in which it
1020-437: Was a pioneer, and was the first journal to hire a police reporter . Its audience was primarily working class readers. The Sun is well-known for publishing the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, as well as Francis Pharcellus Church 's 1897 editorial containing the line " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ". It merged with the New York World-Telegram in 1950. The Sun began publication in New York on September 3, 1833, as
1054-430: Was also the first newspaper to hire newspaper hawkers to sell it on the street, developing the trade of newsboys shouting headlines. The Sun was the first newspaper to report crimes and personal events such as suicides, deaths, and divorces. The paper had a focus on police reports and human-interest stories for the masses, which consisted of short descriptions of arrests, thefts, and violence. With their competitor
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1088-419: Was also the first newspaper to show that a newspaper could be substantially supported by advertisements rather than subscription fees, and could be sold on the street instead of delivered to each subscriber. Prior to The Sun , printers produced newspapers, often at a loss, making their living selling printing services. Day and The Sun recognized that the masses were fast becoming literate, and demonstrated that
1122-463: Was born on September 3, 1833, when a twenty-three-year-old publisher named Benjamin Day put out the first edition of the New York Sun . Whereas other papers sold for five or six cents, the Sun cost just a penny. For revenue, Day relied on advertising rather than on subscriptions . Above all, he revolutionized the way papers were distributed. He sold them to newsboys in lots of a hundred to hawk in
1156-502: Was built at the corner with Broadway and Chambers Street. Munsey died in 1925 with a fortune of about 20 million dollars, and was ranked as one of the most powerful media moguls of his time, along with William Randolph Hearst . He left the bulk of his estate, including The Sun , to the Metropolitan Museum of Art . The next year The Sun was sold to William Dewart, a longtime associate of Munsey's. Dewart's son Thomas later ran
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