The New York Enquirer has been the name of two unrelated newspaper

Newspaper

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s published in New York City

New York City

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19th century New York Enquirer

The New York Enquirer was founded in 1826 by Mordecai Noah. According to the masthead, it was "published every Tuesday and Friday at No. 1 Williams St., New York, New York". Noah was a strong supporter of Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

 and published often highly slanted pro-Jackson news reporting, along with international news.

By the early 1830s it had merged with a Whig

Whig Party (United States)

The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s, the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic...

 paper to become the New York Courier and Enquirer

New York Courier and Enquirer

The New York Courier and Enquirer, properly called the Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer, was a daily broadsheet newspaper published in New York City from June 1829 until June 1861, when it was merged into the New York World. Throughout its life it was edited by newspaper publisher James...

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20th century New York Enquirer

Founded in 1926, as a Sunday weekly by William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst was an American business magnate and leading newspaper publisher. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887, after taking control of The San Francisco Examiner from his father...

 protege William Griffin, the second New York Enquirer was charged with sedition

Sedition

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 in 1942 for its editorials opposing US involvement in World War II. It was sold in 1952, converted into a tabloid and subsequently renamed The National Enquirer

The National Enquirer

The National Enquirer is an American supermarket tabloid now published by American Media Inc . Founded in 1926, the tabloid has gone through a variety of changes over the years....

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