Pittsburgh Dispatch

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The Pittsburgh Dispatch was a newspaper for which Nellie Bly worked.

[edit] History

The Pittsburgh Dispatch was established on 8 February 1846 by Col J. Herron Foster. R.C. Fleeson bought an interest in the paper in 1849 which had become successful due to its independent approach to the news and in-depth court reporting: "A leading feature of the Dispatch was its elaborate, accurate and interesting reports of the various courts of the county. In regard to the latter, judges and lawyers were profuse in their praise of the legal intelligence in the paper daily, and on more than one occasion lawyers, addressing juries in important cases, analyzed the testimony as it appeared in the Dispatch, and that, too, from longhand reports — there were no stenographers in those days."^[1]

In 1865 Daniel O'Neil and Alexander W. Rook bought the paper and ran it until O'Neil's death in 1877 and Rook's in 1880. Following Rook's death, Eugene M. O'Neil, Daniel's brother, took control of the paper and eventually bought full ownership from Rook's estate.^[2]

In 1908 Charles Wakefield Cadman became the music editor and critic for the Dispatch.^[3]

The Pittsburgh Dispatch was still operating in 1920.^[4]

1. ^ Smith, Percy (1918). Memory's Milestones: Reminiscences of a Busy Life in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh: Murdoch-Kerr Press, 6. 
2. ^ Fleming, George (1922). History of Pittsburgh and its Environs. Pittsburgh: American Historical Society, 340. 
3. ^ http://www.naxos.com/composerinfo/Charles_Wakefield_Cadman/25915.htm
4. ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9500EFDC1738E13ABC4C51DFB566838B639EDE