The
New York Herald was a large distribution
newspaper based in
New York City that existed between
May 6,
1835 and
1924.
The first issue of the paper was published by James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1795–1872). During the American Civil War, it was a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party. Under Bennett's son, James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (1841–1918), the paper financed Henry Morton Stanley's expedition into Africa to find David Livingstone, and in 1879 supported the ill-fated expedition of George W. DeLong to the arctic region.
In 1861, it circulated 84,000 copies and called itself "the most largely circulated journal in the world." [1] Bennett's politics tended to be anti-Catholic and he had tended to favor the "Know-Nothing faction though he was not particularly anti-immigrant as they were.
He stated that the function of a newspaper "is not to instruct but to startle."[2]
