The precursors to gossip columnists were "society columnists" who wrote for newspapers in the 19th and 20th centuries.
James Gordon Bennett is credited with first creating this position at the
New York Herald in 1840.
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Walter Winchell, a gossip columnist famous in the 1930s and 1940s and the first to have a syndicated column, used political, entertainment, and social connections to mine information and rumors, which he either published in his column On Broadway or used for trade or blackmail to accumulate more power. He has been referred to as "the most feared journalist" of his era.
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- ^ Ross, Ishbel (1936). Ladies of the Press: The Story of Women in Journalism By an Insider. Harper. p. 441.
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^ Gabler, Neal (1994).
Winchell : gossip, power, and the culture of celebrity (1st ed ed.). New York: Knopf.
ISBN
0-679-41751-6.
OCLC
29637810.
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The precursors to gossip columnists were "society columnists" who wrote for newspapers in the 19th and 20th centuries.
James Gordon Bennett is credited with first creating this position at the
New York Herald in 1840.
[1]
Walter Winchell, a gossip columnist famous in the 1930s and 1940s and the first to have a syndicated column, used political, entertainment, and social connections to mine information and rumors, which he either published in his column On Broadway or used for trade or blackmail to accumulate more power. He has been referred to as "the most feared journalist" of his era.
[2]
- ^ Ross, Ishbel (1936). Ladies of the Press: The Story of Women in Journalism By an Insider. Harper. p. 441.
-
^ Gabler, Neal (1994).
Winchell : gossip, power, and the culture of celebrity (1st ed ed.). New York: Knopf.
ISBN
0-679-41751-6.
OCLC
29637810.
{{ cite book}}:|edition=has extra text ( help)