New York Tribune
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The New York Tribune was established by Horace Greeley in 1841 and was long considered one of the leading newspapers in the United States. The Tribune was created by Greeley with the hopes of providing a straight-forward, 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 Greeley's idealist views.
Greeley died in 1872, the year Whitelaw Reid assumed control of the paper. Under his son Ogden Mills Reid the paper merged with 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.