The Fourth EsTate: The press on the Press

One hundred years ago today … The Fourth Estate was published weekly as "A Newspaper for the Makers of Newspapers and Investors in Advertising."

The Fourth Estate, 10 July 1920, p. 1. Google Books. — *The Fourth Estate*, 10 July 1920, p. 1. *Google Books.*

The July 10 issue took particular interest in the fact that, with the Democrats’ recent nomination of Ohio Governor James M. Cox (see our July 3 post), both major parties had nominated newspaper moguls (the other being eventual winner Warren G. Harding, Senator of Ohio).

The Fourth Estate, 10 July 1920, p. 2. Google Books. — *The Fourth Estate*, 10 July 1920, p. 2. *Google Books.*

The Fourth Estate, 10 July 1920, p. 16. Google Books. — *The Fourth Estate*, 10 July 1920, p. 16. *Google Books.*

The Fourth Estate carried advertising related to the business and production of newspapers. Below is an ad for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company of Brooklyn, where printer extraordinaire Samuel Jacobs worked. (See our post of May 7.)

The Fourth Estate, 10 July 1920, p. 10. Google Books. — *The Fourth Estate*, 10 July 1920, p. 10. *Google Books.*

The journal’s offices were at 232 West 59th Street. It was published and edited by Ernest F. Birmingham, who had previously edited Staten Island newspapers The News Letter and The Richmond County/Staten Island Gazette.

WRITTEN BY JONATHAN GOLDMAN, JULY 10, 2020.

TAGS: newspapers, media, news, print culture, Staten Island, Ernest F. Birmingham