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The ''Pittsburgh Leader'' was a major newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, operating from 1864 to 1923. ==History== John W. Pittock, a 21-year-old former newsboy, first published the ''Leader'' as a Sunday weekly on 11 December 1864. A daily edition called the ''Evening Leader'' appeared on 18 October 1870 under the leadership of Pittock and partners John I. Nevin, Robert P. Nevin, and Edward H. Nevin. The editorial policy was politically nonpartisan.〔 Already in 1873, the ''Leader'' was listed in ''Rowell's American Newspaper Directory'' as having the largest daily circulation in Pittsburgh. It was also the city's only daily with a Sunday edition, except for the German-language ''Volksblatt''. Following Pittock's death in 1881, members of the Nevin family conducted the paper for many years, finally selling it in 1906 to a team led by Alexander Pollock Moore. It was often said that ex-political boss and contractor William Flinn had a stake in the nominally Moore-run paper and influenced its policy. The ''Leader'' and the ''Pittsburgh Dispatch'' published their last issues on February 14, 1923, having been jointly purchased and absorbed by the other Pittsburgh papers: the ''Post'', ''Sun'', ''Gazette Times'', ''Chronicle Telegraph'', and the ''Press''. At the time, advertisers and publishers had long regarded the Pittsburgh newspaper market as overcrowded. Only four years after the demise of the ''Leader'' and ''Dispatch'', mergers further narrowed the field of mainstream Pittsburgh dailies from five to three. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pittsburgh Leader」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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