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48-623: The first edition of The World Almanac was published by the New York World newspaper in 1868 (the name of the publication comes from the newspaper itself, which was known as the World ). Published three years after the end of the Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln , its 120 pages of information touched on such events as the process of Reconstruction and the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson . Publication

96-627: A Linotype . In time the more sensational approach to news, advertising, and content triumphed. On May 16, 2011, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism announced that it was launching an online publication named The New York World, in honor of the original newspaper published by Joseph Pulitzer, who founded the graduate school. The university said the mission of the publication would be "to provide New York City citizens with accountability journalism about government operations that affect their lives." It

144-865: A publicity stunt for the paper, inspired by the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days , she traveled around the planet in 72 days in 1889–1890. In 1890, Pulitzer built the New York World Building , the tallest office building in the world at the time. In 1889, Julius Chambers was appointed by Pulitzer as managing editor of the New York World; he served until 1891. In 1890, Pulitzer, Chambers, et al. were indicted for posthumous criminal libel against Alexander T. Stewart for accusing him of "a dark and secret crime", as

192-881: A Comedy Series for the role. In 2021 Perez starred in the film adaptation of the children's book series Clifford the Big Red Dog . She is an official commentator for the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson boxing match. Perez is an activist for Puerto Rican rights: Perez has suffered from high anxiety, PTSD , and depression but with therapy it has been greatly reduced. Perez married filmmaker and playwright Seth Zvi Rosenfeld in 1998. The couple divorced in 2001 after 3 years together. She married artist Eric Haze on September 15, 2013, in Las Vegas . They live in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn as of 2014. Perez stated on

240-624: A beautiful native woman in the DreamWorks Animation film The Road to El Dorado . She played corrupt police officer Carol Brazier in the Judd Apatow -produced film Pineapple Express , co-starring Seth Rogen and James Franco . Perez appeared on an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in October 2009 about pedophiles' rights. Executive producer Neal Baer said the writers had Perez in mind when they wrote

288-530: A book that analyzes the causes and effects of child abuse. She said it was not until about 6 months after the book was published and she heard responses from others that she found the experience cathartic. On September 3 of the same year, ABC announced Perez would join The View as a new co-host alongside moderator Whoopi Goldberg , newcomer Nicolle Wallace , and returning co-host Rosie O'Donnell . The new season began on September 15, 2014. Perez said she

336-414: A color supplement , which featured The Yellow Kid cartoon Hogan's Alley . It joined a circulation battle with William Randolph Hearst 's New York Journal . In 1899 Pulitzer and Hearst were the cause of the newsboys' strike of 1899 , which led to Pulitzer's circulation dropping by 70%. The World was attacked for being "sensational", and its circulation battles with Hearst's Journal gave rise to

384-516: A culture of consumption for working men. He believed they saved money to enjoy life with their families when they could, at Coney Island , for example. By contrast, the long-established editor Charles A. Dana , of The Sun , held to a traditional view of the working man as one engaged in a struggle to better his working conditions and to improve himself. Dana thought that readers in the 20th century followed fewer faddish illustrations and wished newspapers did not need advertising. Dana resisted buying

432-552: A half-million "habitual users," The World Almanac changed its name to The World Almanac and Encyclopedia . This was the title it kept until 1923, when it became The World Almanac and Book of Facts , the name it bears today. In 1906, the New York Times , reporting on the publishing of the 20th edition, said that "the almanac has made for itself a secure position, second only to the forty-year-old Whitaker's Almanac of London , with which alone it can be compared." In 1923,

480-550: A precisely worded resignation. Cobb had it printed in every New York paper—except the World . Joseph Pulitzer raged at the insult, but slowly began to respect Cobb's editorials and independent spirit. Exchanges, commentaries, and messages between them increased. The good rapport between the two was based largely on Cobb's flexibility. In May 1908, Cobb and Pulitzer met to outline plans for a consistent editorial policy. Pulitzer's demands for editorials on contemporary news led to overwork by Cobb. The publisher sent his managing editor on

528-522: A professional dancer, but loved it so much she dropped out of school. In 1988, when she was 23 years old, Perez was noticed at the dance club Funky Reggae by Spike Lee , who hired her for her first major acting role in Do the Right Thing . Perez later choreographed music videos by Janet Jackson , Bobby Brown , Diana Ross , LL Cool J and The Boys . She was the choreographer for the dancing group

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576-545: A series regular role, Perez portrayed Tracey Wolfe in the NBC musical drama television series Rise , which ran for one season. She starred in the 2020 superhero film Birds of Prey , as the DC Entertainment superhero Renee Montoya / Question . Later that year, Perez starred in the comedy-drama series The Flight Attendant . She earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in

624-505: A six-week tour of Europe to restore his spirit. Shortly after Cobb's return, Pulitzer died. Cobb then finally published Pulitzer's resignation from 1907. Cobb retained the editorial policies he had shared with Pulitzer until he died of cancer in 1923. When Pulitzer died in 1911, he passed control of the World to his sons Ralph, Joseph and Herbert. The World continued to grow under its executive editor Herbert Bayard Swope , who hired writers such as Frank Sullivan and Deems Taylor . Among

672-931: Is an American actress. Her breakthrough came at age 24 with her portrayal of Tina in the film Do the Right Thing (1989), followed by White Men Can't Jump (1992). Perez's performance in Fearless (1993) earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress , among other accolades . Her starring film roles since include It Could Happen to You (1994), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Pineapple Express (2008), and Birds of Prey (2020). Perez earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for In Living Color (1990–1994) and another Emmy nomination for her work in The Flight Attendant (2020–22). She has performed in stage plays on Broadway such as The Ritz , Frankie and Johnny in

720-651: Is distributed by Simon & Schuster . In the mid-1980s, The World Almanac was put together by a ten-member staff. Twenty percent of the book was rarely updated (for example, the text of the Constitution of the United States ), fifty percent was updated at least to some extent each year, and thirty percent of the content was completely new each year. Lists published in The World Almanac include: New York World The New York World

768-556: The 1876 presidential election , sold the paper after the election to a group headed by Thomas A. Scott , the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad , who used the paper "as a propaganda vehicle for his stock enterprises." But Scott was unable to meet the newspaper's growing losses, and in 1879 he sold it to financier Jay Gould as part of a deal that also included the Texas & Pacific Railroad . Gould, like Scott, used

816-822: The Fly Girls who were featured on the Fox television comedy program In Living Color and also worked as a segment producer. She made her Broadway debut in Terrence McNally 's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune . Perez had her third major role in the hit comedy White Men Can't Jump co-starring Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson . Perez was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Peter Weir 's 1993 film Fearless . She attended

864-545: The World ' s noted journalists were columnists Franklin Pierce Adams (F.P.A.), who wrote "The Conning Tower"; Heywood Broun , who penned "It Seems to Me" on the editorial page; and future hardboiled fiction writer James M. Cain . C. M. Payne created several comic strips for the newspaper. The paper published the first crossword puzzle in December 1913. The annual reference book called The World Almanac

912-636: The Clair de Lune , and Fish in the Dark . She was also a co-host on the ABC talk show The View during the series' 18th season. Perez additionally had a role in season 2 of the Showtime series, Your Honor . Perez was born on September 6, 1964, in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn , New York City, to Lydia Pérez and Ismael Serrano, a merchant marine seaman. Her mother Lydia (née Fontañez y Reyes)

960-464: The Woodside Houses, when she died of AIDS -related complications. At 19 years old, Perez started her career in the early 1980s as a dancer on Soul Train . As a student at Los Angeles City College , with plans to major in biochemistry , she said she relieved stress by going to nightclubs for ladies' night. A talent scout from Soul Train asked Perez to appear on the show. She was not

1008-844: The assets of The Sun in 1950, and officially became the New York World-Telegram and The Sun . Ownership of the Almanac passed to the Newspaper Enterprise Association (another Scripps-owned business) in 1966, when the World-Telegram merged with the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Journal-American . During World War II, The World Almanac could boast that it was read by GIs all over

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1056-529: The book was then produced by the World Almanac Education Group, which was owned by The Reader's Digest Association . The World Almanac was sold to Infobase in 2009. In 2018, The World Almanac published its 150-year anniversary edition. The World Almanac , together with the "World Almanac Books" imprint used since the closing years of Scripps ownership, was sold to Skyhorse Publishing in 2020. As with other Skyhorse imprints it

1104-623: The ceremony with her father. In 1997, she co-starred with Javier Bardem in Perdita Durango , a film in which many scenes of violence, sex and nudity were edited out of the version released in the United States but remained intact in the version released throughout Latin America. In 1999, Perez starred in Nancy Savoca 's The 24 Hour Woman . She provides the voices of Click, the camera, on Nick Jr. 's Go, Diego, Go! and Chel,

1152-597: The city for reform. Hearst reproduced Pulitzer's approach in the San Francisco Examiner and later in the Journal . Charles Chapin was hired in 1898 as city editor of the Evening World . He was most known for embracing the sensational and showing little empathy in the face of tragedy, only taking a more solemn tone when reporting on the assassination of William McKinley in 1901. He controlled

1200-503: The country beginning around 1905. With Scripps' acquisition of the World newspaper and its syndication assets in February 1931, the World 's most popular strips were brought over to Scripps' United Feature Syndicate . Janet E. Steele argues that Joseph Pulitzer put a stamp on his age when he brought his brand of journalism from St. Louis to New York in 1883. In his New York World , Pulitzer emphasized illustrations, advertising, and

1248-537: The development of the American comic strip. Notable strips that originated with the World included Richard F. Outcault 's Hogan's Alley (featuring The Yellow Kid ), The Captain and the Kids , Everyday Movies , Fritzi Ritz , Joe Jinks , and Little Mary Mixup . Under the names World Feature Service and New York World Press Publishing the company also syndicated comic strips to other newspapers around

1296-409: The film White Men Can't Jump ; and Will Smith checks it for the exact time of sunset so he can set his digital watch in I Am Legend . The World Almanac For Kids was published annually since 1995 until 2014. In 1993 Scripps sold The World Almanac to K-III (later Primedia ). The World Almanac was sold to Ripplewood Holdings ' WRC Media in 1999. Ripplewood bought Reader's Digest and

1344-462: The grand marshal for the international Boxing Hall of Fame parade in Canastota, New York . In February 2014, Perez published an autobiography titled Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling... She is also the reader of the audio CD of this book. Perez said that she did not initially set out to write an autobiography, but rather

1392-427: The man who "invited guests to meet his mistresses at his table", and as "a pirate of the dry goods ocean." The charges were dismissed by the court. This sort of criminal action was common at the time and both Pulitzer and Chambers were indicted in a number of cases, in some of which they were acquitted, in others convicted. In 1896, the World began using a four-color printing press; it was the first newspaper to launch

1440-645: The name changed to its current name, The World Almanac and Book of Facts . Calvin Coolidge 's father read from The World Almanac when he swore his son into office. Since then, photos have shown that Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton have also used The World Almanac as a resource. In 1931 The New York World merged with the Scripps -owned Telegram to form the New York World-Telegram . The World-Telegram subsequently acquired

1488-429: The newsroom with an iron fist, and was commonly despised by the journalists who worked for him. Chapin fired 108 newspaper men during his tenure. However, Stanley Walker still referred to him as "the greatest city editor that ever lived." His time at the World ended when, after falling into financial ruin, he murdered his wife in 1918. He was sentenced to Sing Sing Prison and died there in 1930. Frank Irving Cobb

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1536-426: The paper for his own purposes, employing it to help him take over Western Union . But Gould, like Scott, could not turn the financial state of the newspaper around, and by the 1880s, it was losing $ 40,000 a year. Joseph Pulitzer bought the World in 1883 and began an aggressive era of circulation building. Reporter Nellie Bly became one of America's first investigative journalists , often working undercover. As

1584-479: The paper to eliminate its competition. He closed the World and laid off the staff of 3,000 after the final issue was printed on February 27, 1931, then merely replaced the word "Evening" on his afternoon paper, the Evening Telegram , renaming it the New York World-Telegram . The New York World was one of the first newspapers to publish comic strips , starting around 1890, and contributed greatly to

1632-578: The role of a young sexual abuse victim's mother. She injured her neck while filming the episode and underwent surgery to heal a herniated disc . One year after the accident, she appeared at the White House in a wheelchair, wearing a neck brace for a meeting with President Obama. In May 2011, Perez filed a lawsuit against the producers of the show, saying the injury she incurred was the result of being "recklessly pulled, grabbed, yanked, wrenched and manhandled" during filming. In June 2013, she served as

1680-751: The sales noted below. Over the decades The World Almanac has been featured in several Hollywood films. Fred MacMurray talks about it with Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity ; Bette Davis screams about it in All About Eve ; Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper flirt about it in Love in the Afternoon ; it is featured in Miracle on 34th Street when a trial is held to see if Santa Claus really exists; Rosie Perez continually reads it in

1728-522: The term yellow journalism . The charges of sensationalism were most frequently leveled at the paper by more established publishers, who resented Pulitzer's courting of the immigrant classes. And while the World presented its fair share of crime stories, it also published damning exposés of tenement abuses. After a heat wave in 1883 killed a disproportionate number of poor children, the World published stories about it, featuring such headlines as "Lines of Little Hearses". Its coverage spurred action in

1776-612: The video game Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? , published in 1985, included a copy of The World Almanac in the purchase. From the 1968 to 1986 editions the Almanac bore the imprints of local newspapers (in New York, the Daily News for most of the time) in various markets while published by NEA. Thereafter it was branded with "World Almanac Books", initially as an imprint of Pharos Books, another Scripps-owned entity, until

1824-429: The world: between 1944 and 1946, at the request of the U.S. Government, The World Almanac had special print runs of 100,000 to 150,000 copies for distribution to the armed forces. In late December 1984, the 1985 edition reached first place in the category of paperback Advice, How- To and Miscellaneous books, on the New York Times best-seller list, with more than 1,760,000 copies sold at the time. The first version of

1872-542: Was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 to 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers as a leading national voice of the Democratic Party . From 1883 to 1911 under publisher Joseph Pulitzer , it was a pioneer in yellow journalism , capturing readers' attention with sensation, sports, sex and scandal and pushing its daily circulation to the one-million mark. It

1920-629: Was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico . Her father was from Aguadilla , Puerto Rico. Her mother was married to a man 20 years her senior, Arturo Pérez. Her mother already had five children when she became pregnant with Rosie after having an affair with Serrano. Perez was born at the now-closed Greenpoint Hospital in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn. One of 10 children born to her mother, Perez and her siblings grew up in Bushwick while their mother

1968-498: Was employed on a trial basis by Pulitzer as the editor of the World in 1904. Cobb was a fiercely independent Kansan who resisted Pulitzer's attempts to "run the office" from his home. The elder man was so invested in the paper that he continually meddled with Cobb's work. The two found common ground in their support of Woodrow Wilson , but they had many other areas of disagreement. When Pulitzer's son Ralph took over administrative responsibility of The World in 1907, his father wrote

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2016-466: Was founded by the newspaper, and the name World Almanac is directly descended from the newspaper. The paper ran a twenty-one article series that was an exposé on the inner workings of the Ku Klux Klan , starting September 6, 1921. In 1931, Pulitzer's heirs went to court to sell the World . A surrogate court judge decided in their favor; Scripps-Howard chain owner Roy W. Howard purchased

2064-458: Was in third grade, Perez learned that she had a speech impediment. She had a strict Catholic upbringing, which she has credited to the influence of the nuns during her childhood. She eventually moved in with her paternal aunt, Ana Dominga Otero Serrano-Roque. She attended Grover Cleveland High School , in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens . By 1999, her mother was living in poverty in

2112-532: Was initially hesitant about the job because "I didn't want to be on a show where people were just screaming at each other disrespectfully." She decided to join the cast when she learned that Bill Wolff , whom she knew from The Rachel Maddow Show , was going to be the new executive producer. In 2015, she returned to Broadway to star in Fish in the Dark , a play written by Larry David . On July 8, 2015, Perez announced she would be leaving The View . In 2018, in

2160-600: Was intermittently jailed. Her mother gave birth to her youngest child while incarcerated. She was for a time raised by an aunt and then, like her siblings, went through group homes and foster care. She and her siblings were often split up. She was transferred to a group foster home and lived in foster care in New York and Peekskill until the age of eight. She was legally considered a ward of the State of New York until age 12. Her mother and aunt frequently visited, and her father made an unsuccessful custody bid at one point. When she

2208-408: Was sold in 1931 and merged into the New York World-Telegram . The World was founded in 1860. From 1862 to 1876, it was edited by Manton Marble , who was also its proprietor. During the 1864 United States presidential election , the World was shut down for three days after it published forged documents purportedly from Abraham Lincoln . Marble, disgusted by the defeat of Samuel Tilden in

2256-472: Was suspended in 1876, but in 1886, newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer , who had purchased the World and quickly transformed it into one of the most influential newspapers in the country, revived The World Almanac with the intention of making it "a compendium of universal knowledge." The World Almanac has been published annually since. From 1890 to 1934, the New York World Building was prominently featured on its cover. In 1894, when it claimed more than

2304-415: Was to be staffed mainly by those who have completed master's or doctoral degrees, and other affiliates of the school. The online publication focuses on data journalism and collaborated with a number of local and national news outlets. The World lists contributors and an editor, but has not published new content since 2016. Rosie Perez Rosie Perez (born Rosa Maria Perez ; September 6, 1964)

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