Patterson

Patterson, family of U.S. newspaper publishers and editors. Joseph Medill Patterson (1879–1946) was coeditor (from 1910) and copublisher (1914–25) of the Chicago Tribune (with Robert McCormick). He was cofounder (1919), coeditor, and publisher of the New York Daily News, the largest-circulation tabloid in the United States. His sister, Eleanor Medill Patterson (1884–1948), edited the Washington Herald (from 1930), leased it and the Times (1937–39), and published the merged Washington Times-Herald (1939–48). His daughter, Alicia Patterson (1906–63), founded (with her husband, Harry F. Guggenheim), published, and edited, from 1940, the Long Island, N.Y., newspaper Newsday, which she developed into one of the largest suburban dailies in the United States.