New York World

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The New York World was a newspaper published in New York from 1860 until 1931.

The newspaper was unsuccessful until it was purchased by Joseph Pulitzer in 1883. Nellie Bly, a journalist on the title became the first investigative journalist, often working undercover. As a publicity stunt for the paper inspired by Around the World in Eighty Days, she travelled around the planet in 72 days.

In 1890 the newspaper built the New York World Building, the tallest office building in the world at the time. It was razed in 1955 to make way for the approach for the Brooklyn Bridge.

In 1896, the newspaper began using a four-color printing press and became the first to launch a color supplement, which featured the Yellow Kid cartoon. It then joined a circulation battle with the New York Journal American.

In 1911, Joseph Pulitzer died, passing control of the World to his sons, Ralph, Joseph and Herbert Pulitzer. The World continued to grow under its executive editor Herbert Bayard Swope, who hired writers such as Frank Sullivan and Deems Taylor. Among the World's noted journalists were columnists Franklin Pierce Adams (F.P.A.) who wrote "The Conning Tower" and Heywood Broun who penned "It Seems To Me" on the editorial page.

The paper published the first crossword puzzle in 1913. The annual reference book called the World Almanac was founded by the newspaper and retains its name. The belief that the World Series of baseball is also named after the newspaper, however, is unfounded.[1].

In 1931 the heirs of Pulitzer went to court to sell the World. A surrogate court judge decided in the Pulitzer sons' favor; it was purchased by Roy Howard for his Scripps-Howard chain. He promptly closed the World and laid off the staff of 3,000 after the final issue was printed Feb. 27, 1931. Howard added the World name to his afternoon paper, the Evening Telegram and called it the New York World-Telegram.

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