American editor and publisher Joseph Medill (1823-1899), a staunch abolitionist and an early advocate of the Republican party, was influential in Abraham Lincoln's presidential drive. Joseph Medill was born near the village of St. John, New Brunswick,...
Joseph Medill epitomized the best and worst of personal journalism as editor and principal owner of the Chicago Tribune between 1855 and 1899. John Tebbel said that Medill's Tribune "tried lawsuits in its news columns, used everything short of gutter...
Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) is better known as the business manager and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune than as mayor of Chicago, although his term in office occurred during two of the most important years of the city's...
Medill Dean pushes diversity in journalism Alarmed that the number of African American journalists is dwindling and concerned that journalism students aren't as global as they should be, Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism Dean Loren Ghiglione has promised to help change that...
Alice Higinbotham Patterson and her husband, Joseph Medill Patterson, the onetime publisher of the Chicago Tribune who went on to found the New York Daily News, shared, among other things, a deep love for the land. In the early 1900s the pair bought a...
