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person1878–1935

Adolph Ochs

Disciplines:
journalism/newspaper publishing
media/media ownership

Summary

American newspaper publisher who purchased the failing New York Times in 1896 and transformed it into the world's most respected newspaper through a commitment to factual reporting over sensationalism.

Core Contribution

Established 'All the News That's Fit to Print' as an editorial standard — explicitly rejecting the yellow journalism of Hearst and Pulitzer — and put the Times on sound financial footing through advertising rather than political subsidy.

Historical Influences

Henry Raymond

Intellectual Lineage

American Newspaper Publishing Tradition Reform Journalism

Contemporaries & Peers

Joseph Pulitzer William Randolph Hearst E.W. Scripps

Minds Influenced

Arthur Hays SulzbergerIphigene Ochs Sulzberger

Intellectual Posterity

New York Times All the News That's Fit to Print

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