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Benjamin Henry Day

Benjamin Henry Day (April 10, 1810 – December 21, 1889) [ 1 ] was an American newspaper publisher who founded The Sun , the first penny press newspaper in the United States, in ...

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Benjamin Henry Day (April 10, 1810 – December 21, 1889)[1] was an American newspaper publisher who founded The Sun, the first penny press newspaper in the United States, in 1833.[2]

Biography

Day was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on April 10, 1810, to Henry Day, a hatter, and Mary Ely.[3] Day started his printing career in 1824, at the Springfield Republican.[4]

In 1835, Day's Sun was responsible for publishing a story written by Richard Adams Locke about life on the Moon that was fictional, but was received by the general public as fact. The publicity of the article was widespread at the time and now is referred to as "The Great Moon Hoax". Day is credited with stretching the truth that came to be known as sensationalism. Day is also credited for importing to the United States the London Plan, a system of newspaper distribution largely antiquated today in which the paper carriers buy newspapers in bulk from the publisher and sell the papers to the reading public for a profit.

Day sold the Sun to his brother-in-law Moses Yale Beach for $40,000 in 1838.[3] Afterwards he started the True Sun in 1840, which had but a brief run. In 1842, he created the Brother Jonathan, the first illustrated weekly in the U.S., which he ran for twenty years.[5]

Day constantly quarreled with George Wisner over the publication of abolitionist articles. Day considered himself democratic to Wisner's extreme abolitionist standpoint.

From The New Yorker:[6]

The American newspaper business as we know it was born on September 3, 1833, when a twenty-three-year-old publisher named Benjamin Day put out the first edition of the New York Sun. Whereas other papers sold for five or six cents, the Sun cost just a penny. For revenue, Day relied on advertising rather than on subscriptions. Above all, he revolutionized the way papers were distributed. He sold them to newsboys[a] in lots of a hundred to hawk in the street. Before long, Day was the most important publisher in New York.

Day se casó con Evelina Shepard (n. 1811) en 1831 y tuvo cuatro hijos: Henry (n. 1832), Mary Ely Day (1833–38), Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (1838–1916), inventor de los puntos Ben-Day , y Clarence Shephard Day (1844–1927), corredor de bolsa (y padre del autor Clarence Shephard, Jr. ). [ 8 ]

Notas

  1. ↑ Day empleó al futuro actor Barney Williams como su primer, y durante un tiempo, único repartidor de periódicos. [ 7 ]

Referencias

  1. ↑ Carey, Charles W. (2002). Inventores, emprendedores y visionarios empresariales estadounidenses . Nueva York: Facts on File. págs. 89–90 . ISBN  0816045593.
  2. ↑ Fellow, Anthony R. (2010). Historia de los medios estadounidenses (Segunda edición). Cengage Learning. págs. 86–88 . ISBN   978-0495567752.)
  3. 1 2 "Un pionero del periodismo: La ajetreada vida de Benjamin Henry Day" . The New York Times . Vol. 39, n.º 11955. 22 de diciembre de 1889. pág. 16. Consultado el 23 de noviembre de 2010 .   
  4. ↑ O'Brien, Frank M. (1918). La historia del sol, Nueva York, 1833–1918 . Nueva York: George H. Doran Company. pp. 22–23 – vía Internet Archive . 
  5. ↑ Weeks, Lyman Horace, ed. (1897). "Clarence Edward Day" . Familias prominentes de Nueva York . Nueva York: The Historical Company. pág. 162 – vía Internet Archive. 
  6. ↑ Surowiecki, James. "La página financiera: la flexión de patentes", The New Yorker . 14 y 21 de julio de 2003. pág. 36
  7. ↑ "El centenario del 'Post'" . Printers' Ink . Vol. 37, n.º 9. Nueva York. 27 de noviembre de 1901. pág. 16 – vía Internet Archive.   
  8. ↑ Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge (1874). Historia de los descendientes de John Dwight, de Dedham, Massachusetts . Vol. 2. Nueva York: John F. Trow (impresor). págs. 909, 914 – vía Google Books .  

Fuentes

  • Britannica.com
  • Whitby, Gary L. (1990). "Cuernos de un dilema: The Sun, la abolición y los disturbios de Nueva York de 1833-34". Journalism Quarterly . 67 (2): 410– 419. doi : 10.1177/107769909006700218 .