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Fremont Lawson

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Victor Fremont Lawson
Fremont also spelled:
Freemont
Born:
September 9, 1850, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died:
August 19, 1925, Chicago (aged 74)
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Fremont Lawson (born September 9, 1850, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died August 19, 1925, Chicago) was a newspaper editor and publisher, one of the first in the United States to assign correspondents to live and gather news in major cities outside the country. Before this innovation (1898) American newspapers relied on dispatches from British or other foreign sources. He also led the successful effort of Western publishers to rescue the Associated Press (AP) from a combine that leaked its news to the rival United Press (UP). Already the owner of a Norwegian-language paper in Chicago, Lawson in 1876 bought an interest in ...(100 of 302 words)

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