1900's Media | Important Events in the Media, 1900–1909

1900

• Lincoln Steffens joins McClure's as managing editor.
• Arthur Brisbane, editor, launches William Randolph Hearst's Chicago American newspaper.
• Herbert Croly founds the Architectural Record.
• Frank Munsey changes title of Puritan Magazine to Junior Munsey.
• The first volume of Who's Who in America is published.
• McClure Phillips, book publisher, is founded.
• C. M. Clark, the only turn-of-the-century Boston publishing house owned by a woman, is launched.
• The Supreme Court of Illinois rules that the Associated Press wire service is a public utility and must not discriminate among subscribers. The AP declares bankruptcy in Illinois and reincorporates in New York.
• In November, Walter Hines Page founds the public-affairs monthly World's Work to promote business and good labor relations.

1901

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