The Journalist (newspaper) explained

The Journalist
Type:	Weekly newspaper
Founders:	Leander Richardson and Charles Alfred Byrne
Ceased Publication:	merged into Editor & Publisher
Language:	English

The Journalist (1884 - 1907) was the first successful American trade newspaper covering journalism. It was founded as The Journalist: A Magazine for All Who Read and Write by Leander Richardson and Charles Alfred Byrne and published weekly, commencing with its first issue on March 22, 1884.^{[1] [2] [3]}

John Christian Freund became a partner in late 1884, and in January 1885, Charles J. Smith (former managing editor of the New York Star) bought the paper. Allan Forman was a long-time editor and owner of the paper.^{[4] [5] [6]}

The paper published weekly through March 23, 1895, then suspended and restarted from April 17, 1897 to June 16, 1906, before switching to a monthly publication schedule.^[3]

The paper was merged into Editor & Publisher (founded in 1901) in 1907.

External links

• • The Journalist: A Pictorial Souvenir Issued on the Completion of Its Third Year of Continuous Publication (1887)

Notes and References

1. http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH18980506.2.100# Newspaperdom
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=8_Q283mkIIkC&dq=%22&pg=PA155 Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism
3. Lee, Alfred McClung. The Daily Newspaper in America, Vol. 1, p. 228 (1937)
4. (29 January 1921). Who Started the Journalist?, Editor & Publisher, p. 32
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=SUsMAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22&pg=PA1059 The Eagle and Brooklyn, Volume 2
6. (15 March 1914). Editor Dead, Toronto Sunday World