The Journalist (newspaper)

Not to be confused with the magazine published by the National Union of Journalists in the UK, The Journalist (magazine).

The Journalist

The Journalist, nameplate of 1886

Type| Weekly newspaper
Founder(s)| Leander Richardson and Charles Alfred Byrne
Founded| March 22, 1884; 141 years ago (March 22, 1884)
Language| English
Ceased publication| 1907; 118 years ago (1907); merged into Editor & Publisher

The Journalist (1884 - 1907) was the first successful American trade newspaper covering journalism. It was founded as The Journalist: A Magazine for All Who Read and Write by Leander Richardson and Charles Alfred Byrne and published weekly, commencing with its first issue on March 22, 1884.[1][2][3]

John Christian Freund became a partner in late 1884, and in January 1885, Charles J. Smith (former managing editor of the New York Star) bought the paper. Allan Forman was a long-time editor and owner of the paper.[4][5][6]

The paper published weekly through March 23, 1895, then suspended and restarted from April 17, 1897 to June 16, 1906, before switching to a monthly publication schedule.[3]

The paper was merged into Editor & Publisher (founded in 1901) in 1907.

## References

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1. ^ Newspaperdom, Los Angeles Herald, Volume 25, Number 218, 6 May 1898
2. ^ Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism, p. 155
3. ^ a b Lee, Alfred McClung. The Daily Newspaper in America, Vol. 1, p. 228 (1937)
4. ^ (29 January 1921). Who Started the Journalist?, Editor & Publisher, p. 32
5. ^ The Eagle and Brooklyn, Volume 2, p. 1059 (1893)
6. ^ (15 March 1914). Editor Dead, Toronto Sunday World

## External links

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* Media related to The Journalist (newspaper) at Wikimedia Commons
* The Journalist: A Pictorial Souvenir Issued on the Completion of Its Third Year of Continuous Publication (1887)

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