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November 16, 1864 issue of the New York Tribune

The New York Tribune was an American newspaper, first established by Horace Greeley in 1841, which was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States. In 1924 it was merged with the New York Herald to form the New York Herald Tribune, which ceased publication in 1967.

1 History
2 New paper, same name
3 Former Tribune buildings today
4 Footnotes
5 References

[edit] History

Daguerrotype of the Tribune editorial staff by Mathew Brady, taken between 1849 and 1860

The Tribune was created by Greeley with the hopes of providing a straightforward, trustworthy media source in an era when newspapers such as the New York Sun and New York Herald thrived on sensationalism. Although considered the least partisan of the leading newspapers, the Tribune did reflect some of Horace Greeley's idealist views. His journal had Karl Marx (and Friedrich Engels) as European correspondent in the early 1850s.[1]

During Greeley's editorship, the paper was aided by able writers including Charles Anderson Dana, George William Curtis, William Henry Fry, Bayard Taylor, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, and Henry Jarvis Raymond.^[1]

During the American Civil War (1861–1865) the Tribune was a radical Republican newspaper, which supported abolition and subjection of the Confederacy^{[citation needed]} instead of negotiated peace. During the first few months of the war, the Tribune's "on to Richmond" slogan pressured Union general Irvin McDowell into advancing on Richmond before his army was ready, resulting in the disaster of the First Battle of Manassas on July 21, 1861. After the failure of the Peninsular Campaign in the spring of 1862, the Tribune pressured President Abraham Lincoln into installing John Pope as commander of the Army of Virginia.

Following Greeley's defeat for the presidency of the United States in 1872, Whitelaw Reid, owner of the New York Herald, assumed control of the Tribune. Greeley checked into Dr. Choate’s Sanitarium where he died a few weeks later. Under Reid's son, Ogden Mills Reid, the paper acquired the New York Herald to form the New York Herald Tribune, which continued to be run by Ogden M. Reid until his death in 1947.

Copies of the New York Tribune are available on microfilm at many large libraries. Indices from selected years in the late nineteenth century are available on the Library of Congress' website. The original paper articles from the newspaper's morgue are kept at The Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.

[edit] New paper, same name

The New York Tribune building - today the site of Pace University's building complex of One Pace Plaza in New York City

A "new" New York Tribune debuted in 1983 in New York City. The paper, which later changed its name to The New York City Tribune, was published by the Reverend Moon's Unification Church. It was published out of the former Tiffany building at 401 Fifth Avenue until it folded around 1993.

The "Moonie newspaper", as many came to know it, was the sister paper of today's Washington Times which is circulated primarily in the nation's capital. Both were published by News World Communications, Inc. The Tribune carried an expansive "Commentary" section with a decidedly conservative bent. It worked hard, as does today's Washington Times, to demonstrate complete editorial independence from Moon's Unification Church. Indeed, included among the noteworthies who penned an occasional column for it was former New York City Mayor Ed Koch. However, from time to time Moon's Unifiction Church would make its presence felt. Today's Washington Times, which has a substantially higher circulation than the new New York Tribune ever did, is not completely immune to the Korean evangelist's influence.

[edit] Former Tribune buildings today

The New York Tribune building was the first home of Pace University. Today, the site where the building once stood is now the One Pace Plaza complex of Pace University's New York City campus. Dr. Choate’s residence and private hospital, where Horace Greeley died, today is part of the campus of Pace University in Pleasantville, New York.