James Gordon Bennett, the New York Herald and the Arctic

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Riffenburgh, Beau
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1991
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Morton; Livingstone; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003224740001980x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S003224740001980X

Abstract James Gordon Bennett Jr (1841–1918), recognized as one of the most important individuals in the development of popular journalism in the United States, was proprietor of the New York Herald , perhaps the most influential American newspaper of his time. The man who sent Henry Morton Stanley...