The New York Globe

For the 1880s African-American paper of the same name, see New York Age.
The New York Globe
Cover page of the Globe from April 1912
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
PublisherJason Rogers (1910–1923)
FoundedFebruary 1, 1904; 120 years ago (1904-02-01)
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication1923; 101 years ago (1923); merged into The New York Sun
HeadquartersNew York City

The New York Globe, also called The New York Evening Globe, was a daily New York City newspaper published from 1904 to 1923, when it was bought and merged into The New York Sun. It is not related to a New York City-based Saturday family newspaper, The Globe, which was founded by James M. Place in 1892 and published until at least 1899.

History

Circulation figures for New York City newspapers appearing in Editor & Publisher in 1919. The Globe's circulation was 179,906.

The Globe was launched on February 1, 1904. It was a wholly revamped one-cent version of the two-cent paper known as the Commercial Advertiser which dated back to 1793. The official name of the new paper was The Globe and Commercial Advertiser,[1] though it was more typically referred to as the Globe.[2][3]

Jason Rogers, grandson of William Cauldwell, who got his start in the newspaper business at Cauldwell's Sunday Mercury, helped launch the Globe as assistant publisher. He became publisher in 1910.[4][5]

In 1912, the Globe was one of a cooperative of four newspapers, including the Chicago Daily News, The Boston Globe, and the Philadelphia Bulletin, to form the Associated Newspapers syndicate.

The Globe was known for originating Robert Ripley's popular feature Ripley's Believe it or Not! in 1918. In 1916, the paper distributed the theatrical documentary Germany on the Firing Line, under the titles The Globe's War Films and The Evening Globe's "Germany at the Firing Line".[6] One publisher was Samuel Strauss.[7] Notable contributors included a fledgling Maxwell Anderson,[8] and cartoonist Percy Crosby, then a sports columnist.

Sale

Frank Munsey bought the paper in 1923.[9][10] Munsey, who consolidated a number of papers, then merged the Globe into the New York Sun, thus ending the "oldest daily newspaper in the United States" at that time.[11]

References

  1. ^ (2 February 1904) Editorial, The New York Times, Retrieved November 19, 2010
  2. ^ (5 June 1918). Experiences in Newspaper Publishing, American Printer
  3. ^ Rogers, Jason. Newspaper building (Chapter 7) (1918)
  4. ^ (27 April 1932). Jason Rogers Dead, Former Publisher, The New York Times
  5. ^ Bliven, Bruce (7 February 1920). The Men and Women Who Make Our Mediums: Jason Rogers, Advertising & Selling
  6. ^ The Globe's War Films, review by Hal Erickson, Allmovie, via The New York Times
  7. ^ The New York Times: "David Kapel Wed To Miss Combier" (May 6, 1984)
  8. ^ eNotes.com: Maxwell Anderson
  9. ^ (27 May 1923). Frank A. Munsey Buys N. Y. Globe, Founded in 1793, Chicago Tribune, Retrieved November 19, 2010
  10. ^ (4 June 1923). The Press: Mr. Munsey Buys, Time, Retrieved November 19, 2010
  11. ^ (11 June 1923). The Press: The Great Consolidator, Time