Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- As the enterprising owner of New York’s Sun, Moses Beach introduced innovations that helped to transform the newspaper business. He joined the fledgling Sun in 1834, and four years later became that paper’s sole proprietor. Despite robust competition from rival dailies, Beach turned the penny-a-copy Sun into a profitable publication by vastly improving the paper’s newsgathering ability. To speed breaking news to New York City from around the country, he utilized carrier pigeons and express riders. During the Mexican-American War, he increased the efficiency of news dissemination by helping to found the New York Associated Press, one of the nation’s first news cooperatives.
- Moses Beach, dinámico dueño del Sun en Nueva York, introdujo innovaciones que ayudaron a reformar la industria de la prensa. En 1834 se integró al incipiente diario y tras cuatro años se convirtió en propietario único. A pesar de la fuerte competencia, Beach transformó al Sun (vendido a un centavo el ejemplar) en una publicación rentable mediante extensas mejoras en los métodos de reportaje. Para acelerar la llegada de noticias del resto del país a Nueva York, usaba palomas mensajeras y un servicio expreso a caballo. Durante la guerra mexicanoestadounidense, agilizó la divulgación de las noticias ayudando a fundar la Prensa Asociada de Nueva York, una de las primeras cooperativas de noticias de la nación.
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Artist
- Jeremiah Gurney, 12 Oct 1812 - 21 Apr 1895
- Sitter
- Moses Yale Beach, 15 Jan 1800 - 19 Jul 1868
- Nancy Day Beach, 9 Jul 1802 - 12 Jul 1880
- Date
- c. 1855
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Medium
- Whole-plate daguerreotype with applied color
- Dimensions
- Sight: 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2")
- Case Open: 23.2 x 35.9 x 1.3 cm (9 1/8 x 14 1/8 x 1/2")
- Type
- Photograph
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