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Article: The History of Automotive News.(Brief Article)
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- Automotive News
- Article date:
- August 28, 2000
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The origin of Automotive News is not cut and dried. The official version is that George Slocum had felt for years that the auto industry needed a trade newspaper, and in 1925 he secured the financial backing to start one.
Another scenario holds that the paper was the idea of the Macfadden-Bartell publishing firm in New York.
In any case, the paper was called Automotive Daily News, and the first issue appeared Aug. 27, 1925. It was published in New York. Slocum, 36, was Detroit advertising manager. He had been publisher of The Michigan Farmer, an agricultural paper.
The chief angel of Automotive Daily News was Bernarr Macfadden, who was sort of ...