On August 30, 1851, journalists Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones laid out their vision for a newspaper they planned to launch the following month. Called the New-York Daily Times, the publication would be printed daily on a 24-column folio sheet, with morning and evening editions priced at 1 cent each.
Raymond, a politician who later co-founded the Republican Party, would serve as the editor of this new daily paper. Jones, a former banker, would be its publisher and financial manager.
The newspaper’s columns, the pair promised, “will be free from bigoted devotion to narrow interests and will be open, within necessary limitations, to communications upon every subject of public importance.”
The first issue of the New-York Daily Times was published on September 18, 1851. Now, 175 years later, both the hyphen and the word “Daily” are gone, but the New York Times remains…