NEWSPAPER

Founded in 1800 by Alexander Hamilton, the paper is currently known as The New York Post and owned by Rupert Murdoch, who bought it in 1977.

Location:
New York City

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Bigelow	Author	25-Nov-1817	19-Dec-1911	Ambassador to France, memoirist
William Cullen Bryant	Poet	3-Nov-1794	12-Jun-1878	Editor, The New York Evening Post
Cass Canfield	Publisher	26-Apr-1897	27-Mar-1986	Harper & Brothers
E. L. Godkin	Journalist	2-Oct-1831	21-May-1902	Co-Founder of The Nation
Paul Elmer More	Scholar	12-Dec-1864	9-Mar-1937	Shelburne Essays
Allan Nevins	Historian	20-May-1890	5-Mar-1971	The War for the Union
Walter B. Pitkin	Psychologist	6-Feb-1878	25-Jan-1953	Life Begins at Forty
Lincoln Steffens	Journalist	6-Apr-1866	9-Aug-1936	Early muckraking journalist
James Thurber	Author	8-Dec-1894	2-Nov-1961	Short story writer and cartoonist

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