American Decades

Important Events in Media, 1910–1919

Robert R. McCormick, known after World War I as the Colonel, becomes editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, turning it into the most consistently ultraconservative paper for the next several decades.
Oswald Garrison Villard, at work as a reporter for his father's New York Evening Post, investigates the Republican majority leader of the New York state legislature. His exposés lead to the first conviction of a legislator for graft in New York history.
Rheta Childe Dorr publishes What Eight Million Women Want, an account of the suffrage movements in Great Britain and the United States.
On March 10, the Pittsburgh Courier begins publication.
On June 18, Congress gives the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulatory authority over the nation's telephone, telegraph, cable, and wireless communications companies. The move is applauded by those industries,...

[The entire page is 2096 words long]