Helen Rogers Reid

Helen Rogers Reid (November 23, 1882 – July 27, 1970) was an American newspaper publisher. She was president of the New York Herald Tribune.[1]

Biography

Helen Miles Rogers was born in Appleton, Wisconsin,[2] the daughter of Benjamin Talbot Rogers, a storekeeper, and his wife Sarah Louise Johnson.[3] She graduated with an A.B. from Barnard College in 1903.[1] She became social secretary for Whitelaw Reid and married his son, Ogden, in 1911.[2][4] After her father-in-law died her husband brought her in to assist in running the New-York Tribune. Instrumental in merging the New-York Tribune with the New York Herald, she took over as president on the death of her husband in 1947.[2][5] She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950.[6] Reid is the mother of Whitelaw Reid (journalist) and Ogden R. Reid. She died in New York.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Sicherman, Barbara; Hurd Green, Carol (1980). Notable American women: the modern period : a biographical dictionary, Volume 4. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press. pp. 574–5. ISBN 0-674-62732-6.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Helen Rogers Reid, Former Publisher of Tribune, Dies". Standard-Speaker. July 28, 1970. p. 24. Retrieved January 2, 2016 via Newspapers.com.
  3. Signorielli, Nancy, ed. (1996). Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 312. ISBN 0313291640. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  4. Noxon, Frank W. (June 26, 1920). "Take Three—New York's Big Three". The Fourth Estate. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  5. Krismann, Carol H. (2005). Encyclopedia of American Women in Business: M-Z. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 458. ISBN 0-313-32757-2. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  6. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter R" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 29, 2014.


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