In the 1920s, New York hosted a reported dozen morning and evening newspapers from the “young” gray lady, The New York Times, to the weekly tabloid destined to become the National Enquirer. One of the most unlikely evolutions came to the “invasive and sensational” New York Herald.
Founded on the belief that a newspaper’s function “is not to instruct but to startle,” the morning Herald was a bit of a scandal sheet – and proud of it.
In 1924 the New York Herald was acquired by the New York Tribune to form the New York Herald Tribune which was retired in 1966 only to rise again as the International Herald Tribune. 
In just over 130 years – with the help of two mergers – a broadsheet focusing on crime and scandal became a respected global newspaper.
Fortunately for me, the Herald was still dishing dirt in the early 1920s. Just the color I need for my work in progress – Ordinary People in Extraordinary times – New York City in the 1920s.
Ordinary People - Extraordinary Times 