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The Society’s Historic Sites in Journalism program honors the people and places that have played important roles in American journalistic history. The program dates back to 1942.
The sites were originally marked with a bronze marker, and some honorees include: World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle; Benjamin Franklin; William Randolph Hearst; The Associated Press offices in Washington and New York City; Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper published in the United States; and Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black.
View the complete list of historic sites below, or learn more about nominating a person or place as a Historic Site in Journalism.
1942
Bennington, Vt., Anthony Haswell, editor and publisher,
the Vermont Gazette. He was jailed for fighting the Sedition Act.
1943
War Interval
1944
War Interval
1945
War Interval
1945
A contribution was made to Peter Zenger Memorial Fund.
1946
San Francisco, Calif., James King of William, founder, editor and publisher,
the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin. He fought corruption in municipal
government and was assassinated by a politician after many threats on his life.
1947
St. Louis, Mo., Joseph Pulitzer, founder, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
1948
Montgomery, Ala., Grover Cleveland Hall, editor, the Montgomery Advertiser.
He fought the Ku Klux Klan.
1949
Emporia, Kan., William Allen White, editor and publisher, the Emporia
Gazette.
1950
Boston, Mass., The Boston Gazette, second regularly-published paper
in the nation.
1951
New Orleans, George Wilkins Kendall, co-founder of the New Orleans
Picayune, first war correspondent to achieve fame as a regular reporter of military
actions.
1952
Alton, Ill., Elijah Parish Lovejoy, editor, The Observer, and a
militant abolitionist assassinated by his enemies.
1953
Bloomington, Ind., Ernie Pyle, editor, columnist, war correspondent
for Scripps-Howard newspapers.
1954
New York City, Henry J. Raymond, co-founder and the first editor,
The New York Times.
1955
Pittsburgh, Radio Station KDKA. Reported Harding’s election
in 1920. First radio coverage of a national event.
1956
Columbia, Mo., Walter Williams and the University of Missouri School
of Journalism. First school of journalism in the nation.
1957
Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, author and newspaperman.
1958
New York City, the trial of John Peter Zenger.
1959
Cleveland, Edward Wyllis Scripps and the Cleveland Press. Publisher,
founder of the Cleveland Press and chain of newspapers, plus United Press and
Newspaper Enterprise Association.
1960
Charlottesville, Va., Thomas Jefferson.
1961
Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin, statesman and newspaperman.
1962
New York City, Horace Greeley, one of the most influential newspaper
editors in American history.
1963
New York City, James Gordon Bennett.
1964
Hartford, Conn., the Hartford Courant, oldest newspaper of continuous
publication in the United States.
1965
New York City, Adolph S. Ochs, largely responsible for the revival
of The New York Times.
Louisville, Ky., Henry Watterson, outstanding editorialist.
Kansas City, Mo., William Rockhill Nelson, founder, Kansas City Star.
1966
— Little Rock, Ark., John N. Heiskell and the Arkansas Gazette, oldest
newspaper west of the Mississippi.
— New York City, News department, Columbia Broadcasting System. Leadership
in founding independent radio news system; distinguished reporting and interpretation
exemplified by H. V. Kaltenborn and Edward R. Murrow.
— Washington, D.C., National Intelligencer (1800-1865). Vital force in
nation’s political force and set high standards of journalistic responsibility.
1967
— Philadelphia, and Baltimore, Richard Hoe and Ottmar Mergenthaler, for invention of the rotary press in 1847 and the “linotype” machine in 1886, respectively.
— New York City and Washington, D.C., the Associated Press. Establishment of the world’s first private, leased wire for news transmission (1875).
— Carmel, Calif., Lincoln Steffans (1866-1936), foremost exponent of journalistic crusaders known as “muckrakers,” whose exposes of corruption and injustice aroused the public conscience.
— Greencastle, Ind., DePauw University, where Sigma Delta Chi was founded, April 17, 1909.
1968
— Gunston Hall, Va., home of George Mason, author of Virginia Declaration
of Rights (1776), which gave the first expression of a free press its binding,
legal form.
— Boston, James Franklin’s New England Courant, first newspaper published
in the United States without license or authority. Washington, D.C.,
the Washington Globe (1831-1845), published by Francis Preston Blair and John
C. Rives.
— Cincinnati, The Centinel of the North-Western Territory, marking the
175th. anniversary of the first newspaper in the Northwest Territory, published
in 1793.
1969
— Hannibal, Mo., 206 Hill Street, boyhood home of Samuel Clemens (Mark
Twain) and site of the Hannibal Journal, which started Twain on the way to fame
as one of America’s great writers.
— Lexington, Va., Reid Hall, the journalism building on the campus of Washington
and Lee University. Here the first formal instruction in journalism in the history
of education was initiated by General Robert E. Lee in 1869.
— Atlanta, Henry Woodfin Grady (1850-1889), and the Atlanta Constitution,
leaders in creating a more comprehensive, interpretative journalism in the South.
1970
— Sacramento, Calif., the Sacramento Union, oldest daily in the West,
founded in 1851.
— Madison, Wis., the Wisconsin Press Association, oldest continuing state
press association in the nation, existing since the 1830’s.
— Des Moines, Iowa, J. N. (Ding) Darling and the Des Moines Register and
Tribune. Darling’s cartoons catapulted him into national prominence and
were a factor in enhancing the great prestige of his newspaper in the first
half of the 20th century.
1971
— Chicago, the Chicago Daily News and the nation’s oldest foreign
news service operated by a newspaper.
— San Francisco, William Randolph Hearst and the San Francisco Examiner.
— Calhoun, Ga., the Cherokee Phoenix, the Indian-language newspaper of
the Cherokee Nation.
1972
— Philadelphia, Sarah Josepha Hale and Godey’s
Lady’s Book, first major woman’s magazine of mass circulation published
from 1830-1882.
— Baraboo, Wis., Ansel N. Kellogg and the first newspaper syndicate developed
in 1861.
— Chillicothe, Ohio, the Chillicothe Gazette, oldest newspaper in continuous
publication west of the Allegheny Mountains, published since 1800.
1973
— Augusta, Ga., the Augusta Chronicle, the South’s oldest newspaper
presently publishing.
— Chicago, the Chicago Tribune.
— Oologah, Okla., the Will Roger’s Home, birthplace of Will Rogers.
1974
— University of Alabama, Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, eloquent
and effective for the principle of a free and untrammeled press.
— Chicago, the Chicago Defender, for pioneering and continuous leadership
and strength in the Black press.
— Gathland State Park, Md., Townsend’s War Correspondents Arch, a
memorial to Civil War correspondents of the North and the South.
1975
— Worcester, Mass., Isaiah Thomas, American revolutionary editor,
printer, pioneer press historian and co-founder and first president of American
Antiquarian Society.
— New York City, The Nation, oldest opinion magazine in the United States.
— Pittsburgh, John Scull, first editor to transport type and a press across
the Alleghenies to establish journalism west of the peaks; founder of Pittsburgh
Gazette in 1786.
1976
— Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Packet or the General Advertiser,
the first successful daily newspaper in the United States and first to publish
the Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution.
— Rochester, N.Y., Frederick Douglass, founder in 1847
of the North Star,
which with its successor newspapers under Douglass’s direction was the
leading Black journal in the United States in the antebellum period.
— Canton, Ohio, Donald Ring Mellett, publisher of the Canton Daily News,
who was gunned down in front of his home after editorializing against Canton’s
lawless elements and city officials’ ineptness.
1977
— New York City, The Wall Street Journal.
— Richmond, Va., John Mitchell, one of the South’s leading Black reform journalists
and editor of the Richmond Planet.
1978
— Philadelphia, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, who played a major role in consolidating
— Philadelphia newspapers and founded the Ladies Home Journal.
— Toledo, Ohio, David Ross Locke (Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby), who created
the Nasby Letters and was a forerunner of the muckrakers.
— Milwaukee, H. V. Kaltenborn, pioneer radio news analyst who was known
for his analysis of World War II.
1979
— Charleston, S.C., Elizabeth Timothy, first woman publisher of an
American newspaper.
— Milwaukee, Christopher Latham Sholes, chief inventor of the first practical
typewriter.
— Memphis, Tenn., the Christian Index, the second oldest Black religious
newspaper in the nation.
1980
— Boston, The Christian Science Monitor, founder Mary Baker Eddy and
long-time editor Erwin D. Canham.
— Newburyport, Mass., William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the Liberator, anti-slavery
journal.
— Atlanta, W. A. Scott II, founder of the Atlanta Daily World, oldest continuing
Black owned and controlled daily newspaper in the United States.
1981
Philadelphia, Richard Harding Davis, one of the most adventurous
war correspondents of his time who was known for his colorful reportage during
six wars.
1982
Akron, Ohio, Akron Beacon Journal, in honor of John S. Knight, builder
of the Knight-Ridder Newspapers Company.
1983
New York City, Freedom’s Journal, the first Black newspaper
published in America.
1984
— New York City, Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), one of America’s
best-known photojournalists.
— Kansas City, Mo., the Roy Wilkins site at the Kansas City Call, marked
by the Kansas City Professional Chapter in recognition of Roy Wilkins’
editorship there between 1923 and 1931. The Kansas City Association of Black
Journalists was a co-sponsor of the dedication.
— Washington, D.C., United Press International, upon its 75th.anniversary.
1985
— Washington, D.C., National Press Club, site of many world news events.
— Red Wing, Minn., upon occasion of 100th anniversary of founding of National
Newspaper Association.
— Annapolis, Md., at site of Revolutionary War newspaper, Maryland Gazette,
published by Jonas Green and his wife, Catherine Hoof Green.
1986
— Montpelier, VA., the Virginia estate of James Madison.
— Baltimore, The Sun, in honor of one of the newspaper’s founders,
A. S. Abell.
— Greenville, Ohio, birthplace of Lowell Thomas, radio and television broadcaster
— Mississippi State University, Starkville, Miss., marks the site of the
personal and professional papers of William Turner Catledge, late editor of
The New York Times.
— New York City, accepted by the Magazine Publishers Association and the
American Society of Magazine Editors in honor of Ida Tarbell, muckraking journalist
of the turn of the century.
1987
— San Francisco, awarded to the San Francisco Chronicle in honor of
the founders Michel H. de Young and Charles de Young. The brothers founded the
Daily Dramatic Chronicle which appeared as the Chronicle in 1868.
— Memphis, Tenn., at the Beale Street Baptist Church, in honor of Ida B.
Wells-Barnett, editor of the Memphis Free Speech, a Black newspaper.
— New York City, to The Amsterdam News, the oldest Black newspaper in New
York City. Edited by James L. Hicks, first Black journalist accredited to cover
the Korean War and the United Nations.
1988
New York City, the Algonquin Hotel, initial site of the Overseas
Press Club, a meeting place for foreign correspondents.
1990
Washington, D.C., The Senate Press Gallery in honor
of Anne N. Royall(1769-1854), the first Capitol Hill news woman
1993
Montpelier - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1995
Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Recorder.
1996
Tombstone, Ariz., The Tombstone Epitaph
1997
Chicago, Chicago Bee Building
2002
Washington, D.C., American News Women’s Club
2005
Los Angeles, Calif., KTLA, leading radio news in the Los Angels community since becoming the first commercially licensed station in LA.
2006
Milwaukee , WI., Milwaukee Press Club, oldest continuously operating press club in the Americas.
2007
Denver, Co., Denver Press Club
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