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Vintage Chicago Tribune: 5 things that led to ‘Dewey Defeats Truman,’ the newspaper’s most famous...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe Chicago Tribune covered its first presidential election in 1848. The race a century later,...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Revisiting Election Day in the city — including ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agois our Super Bowl, Chicago. Reporters, editors, designers and photographers at the Tribune have been planning for Tuesday since the primary election concluded on June 28. I have fond memories ...
Give ’em hell, Joe
Daily Montanan via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPresident Harry Truman was way behind in the polls, but he wasn’t giving up. Competitive to the core, he came out of the deeply divided and badly...
Editorial: 75 years ago, Dewey ‘defeated’ Truman — our biggest blooper
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSeventy-five years ago to the day, our presses rolled out the most notorious headline in this newspaper’s 176-year history: “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” Well, no, he didn’t. When the presses rolled ...
Perspective: How we can rebuild social trust
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn this file photo, blooming tulips in Lafayette Park frame the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 7, 2010. | Susan Walsh, Associated Press On the...
When media gets it wrong: Why we're correcting a 103-year-old obituary
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 years ago"DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The most famous headline in history was not the cleverest. It was not the...
When Jimmy Carter 'lost,' then won the 1976 Wisconsin Primary
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEditor's note: This is a modified version of a story that was first published in the Journal...
On This Day, Nov. 3: One World Trade Center opens its doors
United Press International via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA man crosses the street in the shadows of One World Trade Center in New York City on November 3,...
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Friday the 13th
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 8 months agoTomorrow is Friday the 13th — a day that some deem doomed. According to folklore, Friday plus 13 equals a double dose of bad luck. What does that mean?...
175 years of the Chicago Tribune: How the newsroom — and city — has evolved since June 10, 1847
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA newspaper is not, of course, a living thing. It is, by its humblest definition, ink on paper, and that is the way it has been for a very long time. For the Chicago Tribune, that time began ...