The Evening World was a newspaper that was published in New York City from 1887 to 1931. It was owned by Joseph Pulitzer , and served as an evening edition of the New York World .
16-816: The first issue was on October 10, 1887. It was published daily, except for Sunday. The final publication was on February 26, 1931. It was merged with the New York World and the New York Telegram and became the New York World-Telegram . In 1899, The Evening World was the subject of a large-scale newsboy strike , immortalized by the Disney film and stage musical Newsies . Nixola Greeley-Smith had worked in St Louis before being based at The Evening World . She covered home front activities during World War I and
32-778: The New York Post and the New York Daily News . The archives of the paper are not available online, but they can be accessed at the Library of Congress, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and several research facilities in the state of New York. New York World Journal Tribune The New York World Journal Tribune ( WJT ) was an evening daily newspaper published in New York City from September 1966 until May 1967. The World Journal Tribune represented an attempt to save
48-586: The E. W. Scripps Company for an undisclosed sum in 1927. At the time of the sale, the paper was known as The New York Telegram , and it had a circulation of 200,000. The newspaper became the World-Telegram in 1931, following the sale of the New York World by the heirs of Joseph Pulitzer to Scripps Howard . More than 2,000 employees of the morning, evening and Sunday editions of the World lost their jobs in
64-593: The Scripps-Howard owned New York World-Telegram and Sun merged with Hearst's New York Journal-American and the New York Herald Tribune to become the New York World Journal Tribune , an evening broadsheet newspaper which would rely on newsstand sales to survive. The management of the merged paper told their employees that to succeed the new enterprise would need concessions from
80-712: The World-Telegram and The Sun with Hearst's Journal American . The intention was to produce a joint afternoon edition, with a separate morning paper to be produced by the Herald Tribune . The last edition of the World-Telegram and The Sun was published on April 23, 1966. But when strikes prevented the JOA from taking effect, the papers instead united in August 1966 to become the short-lived New York World Journal Tribune , which lasted only until May 5, 1967. Its closure left New York City with three daily newspapers: The New York Times ,
96-485: The 1960s the market became even more competitive, forcing the closure of the Hearst -owned New York Daily Mirror in 1963. The newspaper industry was struggling financially by the mid-1960s, and had warned their unions , some of the more militant in the city at the time, that they could not survive yet another strike following devastating walk-outs in 1962–1963 and 1965. In April 1966, in an attempt to avoid closing down,
112-406: The competition already ongoing from radio and magazines . in particular, the market for evening papers was affected by television news, but all papers were affected by it to some extent. The New York media market was by far America's largest at the time (by an even larger margin than it is currently) and had the most daily newspapers. Mergers between them had been ongoing for several years. In
128-884: The end also of all the predecessor newspapers that had previously been absorbed by the three papers that merged, including the Advertiser (the oldest of the predecessors, founded in 1793), the American , the Evening Telegram , the Herald , the Journal , the Press , the Sun , Tribune and the World . One survivor of the demise of the World Journal Tribune was New York magazine, which began as
144-542: The heritages of several historic New York City newspapers by merging the city's three mid-market papers (the Journal-American , the World-Telegram and Sun and the Herald Tribune ) together into a consolidated newspaper. The late 1940s through the 1950s were a troubled time for newspapers throughout North America . Newspapers had acquired a major new competitor for the news audience in television , adding to
160-571: The merger, although some star writers, including Heywood Broun and Westbrook Pegler , were kept on the new paper. The World-Telegram enjoyed a reputation as a liberal paper for some years after the merger, based on memories of the Pulitzer-owned World . However, under Scripps Howard the paper moved steadily to the right, eventually becoming a conservative bastion described by the press critic A.J. Liebling as "Republican, anti-labor, and suspicious of anything European." (Liebling also called
176-501: The newspaper began as the evening edition of The New York Herald , which itself published its first issue in 1835. Following Bennett's death, newspaper and magazine owner Frank A. Munsey purchased The Telegram in June 1920. Munsey's associate Thomas W. Dewart, the late publisher and president of the New York Sun , owned the paper for two years after Munsey died in 1925 before selling it to
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#1732845168988192-700: The paper "the organ of New York's displaced persons (displaced from the interior of North America.)") In 1940, the paper carried a series of articles entitled "The Rape of China," which used Walter Judd 's experiences with Japanese soldiers as the basis of support for a campaign to boycott Japanese goods. Publisher Roy Howard , an expert of sorts after travelling to Manchuria and Japan in the early 1930s, gave extensive coverage of Japanese atrocities in China. The paper's headline of December 8, 1941, read "1500 Dead in Hawaii" in its coverage of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1950,
208-474: The paper became the New York World-Telegram and The Sun after Dewart and his family sold Scripps the remnants of another afternoon paper, the New York Sun . Liebling once described The Sun on the combined publication's nameplate as resembling the tail feathers of a canary on the chin of a cat. Early in 1966, a proposal to create New York's first joint operating agreement led to the merger of
224-681: The paper never opened a Washington bureau, and did not have any foreign correspondents on its staff, relying instead on the Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service for foreign coverage. The folding of the WJT left The New York Times , the New York Daily News , and the New York Post as the only daily English-language general circulation newspapers in New York City for many years, when in 1900 there had been fifteen. The end of World Journal Tribune represented
240-408: The unions, but the unions, upset that several thousand workers were planned to be laid-off, demanded their own concessions from management. The result of the impasse was a 140-day strike which delayed the debut of the new paper until September 12, 1966. The World Journal Tribune never became economically viable, and it ceased publication eight months later, on May 5, 1967. During its short life,
256-399: Was an advocate and activist for women's suffrage . This New York City –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . New York Telegram The New York World-Telegram , later known as the New York World-Telegram and The Sun , was a New York City newspaper from 1931 to 1966. Founded by James Gordon Bennett Sr. as The Evening Telegram in 1867,
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