During the 1840s, many newspapers in the United States began to develop. These newspapers developed largely due to the invention of the rotary press in 1832. New York was the center of this development, having the New York Tribune, New York Herald, and New York Times headquartered in the city.
The New York Tribune was founded by Horace Greeley. Greeley used the Tribune to support the Whig Party and later the Republican Party. Greeley was a very outspoken man who would promote vegetarianism, socialism, abolitionism, and feminism in his paper. The Tribune even had Karl Marx as a London-based correspondent. Many of these ideas were considered radical at the time. Greeley ran for President in 1872, as the joint nominee of the Liberal Republican and Democratic parties, to campaign against the ongoing corruption in the Grant Administration.
The Tribune was very successful having a circulation of 200,000 in the 1850s. It was the most popular paper during that time period.
After Greeley's death in 1872 (he died after the election, but before the electoral college met), the paper adopted a more moderate tone. It was purchased by Whitelaw Reid, a Republican politician who was the Ambassador to the United Kingdom for Teddy Roosevelt. Eventually, the paper merged with the New York Tribune to create the New York Herald Tribune. The New York Herald Tribune was considered to be aligned with Nelson Rockafeller, who was the liberal Republican governor of New York. The New York Herald Tribune ceased publication in 1966 after a strike
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