Frank Munsey - Newspapers

Newspapers

Munsey was very active in the newspaper industry, at one time or another owning at least 17 different newspapers. As the number of newspapers in America declined, Munsey became known for merging many of his properties; though probably financially wise, this earned him a great deal of enmity from those who worked in the industry. His papers included:

  • Washington Times (1901)
  • New York Daily News (operated 1901-1904)
  • The Boston Journal (1902) (sold to Matthew Hale on March 10, 1913)
  • Baltimore News-American
  • Philadelphia Evening Times (discontinued in 1914)
  • New York Herald (bought in 1920 along with the Paris Herald and the New York Evening Telegram, later the New York World-Telegram for four million dollars, sold in 1924 to Ogden Mills Reid, who merged it with his own New York Tribune)
  • The New York Sun (merged with the Herald in 1920)
  • New York Press (merged with the Herald in 1916)
  • The Mail
  • The New York Globe (bought and merged in the Sun in 1923)

The sale of the Herald in 1924 left Munsey owning only two newspapers. The Evening Telegram was sold to Scripps-Howard in 1927, two years after Munsey's death.

Other Munsey pulps and magazines included Puritan, Junior Munsey, All-Story Magazine, Scrap Book, Cavalier, Railroad and Current Mechanics.

Munsey also authored several novels:

  • Afloat in a Great City (1887)
  • The Boy Broker (1888)
  • A Tragedy of Errors (1889)
  • Under Fire (1890)
  • Derringforth (1894)

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