RARE! Newspaper Publishers FDC From 1976 Hand Signed (X9) JG Autographs COA

  

"Newspaper Publishers" FDC Dated 1976 Signed. The signers are; Jack Tarver, Otis Chandler, Al Neuharth, Katherine Graham and 5 more.

This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 - February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions.

He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position. Chandler made improvement of the paper's quality a top priority, succeeding in raising the product's reputation, as well as its profit margins. "No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did, " journalist David Halberstam wrote in his history of the company. Allen Harold "Al" Neuharth (March 22, 1924 - April 19, 2013) was an American businessman, author, and columnist born in Eureka, South Dakota. He was the founder of USA Today, The Freedom Forum, and its Newseum.

Katharine Meyer Graham (June 16, 1917 - July 17, 2001) was an American publisher. She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

She was the first twentieth century female publisher of a major American newspaper. Graham's memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.