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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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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?...
