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, the daughter of Benjamin Talbot Rogers, a storekeeper, and his wife Sarah Louise Johnson.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1950.[5] Reid is the mother of Ogden R. Reid.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. ↑ Signorielli, Nancy, ed. (1996). Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 312. ISBN 0313291640. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ Noxon, Frank W. (June 26, 1920). "Take Three—New York's Big Three". The Fourth Estate. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter R" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 29, 2014.