American Newspaper Publisher
1. Phil Graham (1915)
American Newspaper Publisher
Co-owner and publisher (during the 1940s, '50s, and early '60s) of The Washington Post. Active in politics, he persuaded presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to choose Lyndon Johnson as a...
2. Otis Chandler (1927)
American Newspaper Publisher
The scion of the wealthy Chandler family who took over the Los Angeles Times and transformed it into a nationally respected publication.
3. William Rule (American editor) (1839)
American Newspaper Publisher
Rule was an American newspaper editor and politician best known as the founder of the Knoxville Journal which was published in Knoxville Tennessee from 1870 until 1991. A protégé of...
4. Charlotta Bass (1874)
American Newspaper Publisher
Charlotta Amanda Spears Bass was an American educator newspaper publisher-editor and civil rights activist. Bass was probably the first African-American woman to own and operate a newspaper in the United...
5. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. (1951)
American Newspaper Publisher
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. became the publisher of The New York Times in 1992 and chairman of the board of its owner The New York Times Company in 1997...
6. William Dean Singleton (1951)
American Newspaper Publisher
Dean Singleton is an American newspaper executive. He is the founder and executive board chairman of MediaNews Group the fourth-largest newspaper company in the United States in terms of circulation...
7. Nathan Cole, Jr. (1860)
American Newspaper Publisher
Nathan Cole Jr. was one of the two founders of the Los Angeles Daily Times now the Los Angeles Times. The son of a wealthy St. Louis Missouri politician...
8. Harold A. Henry (1895)
American Newspaper Publisher
Not to be confused with Harold Harby Los Angeles City Council member 1943–57. Harold A. Henry was a community newspaper publisher who was elected to the Los Angeles City Council...
9. Julius Wayland (Unknow)
American Newspaper Publisher
Julius Augustus Wayland was a Mid-Western US socialist during the Progressive Era. He is most noted for publishing Appeal to Reason a socialist publication often deemed to be the most...
