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Henry George Seldes (/ ˈ s ɛ l d ə s / SEL-dəs; [citation needed] November 16, 1890 – July 2, 1995) was an American investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, editor, author, and media critic best known for the publication of the newsletter In Fact from 1940 to 1950.
Jun 28, 2024 · George Seldes (born Nov. 16, 1890, Alliance, N.J., U.S.—died July 2, 1995, Hartland Four Corners, Vt.) was an American journalist. He became a reporter in 1909. From 1918 to 1928 he worked for the Chicago Tribune; he quit to pursue independent journalism.
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George Seldes was the last of the great muckrakers, a crusading reporter with a knack for getting kicked out of all the right places. William Jennings Bryan pushed him out of his hotel room. Vladimir Lenin ordered him out of the Soviet Union, and Mussolini threw him out of Italy.
Learn about George Seldes, a pioneer of investigative reporting who exposed the truth about WWI, fascism, and tobacco. He was censored, blacklisted, and attacked by McCarthy, but never gave up his passion for a free press.
Jul 3, 1995 · George Seldes, author, journalist and critic of the press who protested the suppression of news and the power of business interests in the 1930's and...
George Seldes, journalist: born Alliance, New Jersey 16 November 1890; married 1932 Helen Larkin Weisman (died 1979); died Windsor, Vermont 2 July 1995.
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SELDES, GEORGE (1890–1995), U.S. journalist and author. Born in Alliance, New Jersey, Seldes was a crusading pamphleteer who wrote exposés of many facets of American life. He started as a reporter, and was night editor of the Pittsburgh Post (1910–16).
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