It proved an immediate success, with Bennett giving space for in-depth interviews with victims of crime, witnesses and also leading political figures of the day.
It was the New York Herald that had the first ‘exclusive’ interview with a U.S. President – an interview conducted by Bennett himself in 1839 with President Martin Van Buren.
He died in 1872, having six years earlier passed control of the New York Herald to his son, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., and with the newspaper boasting the highest circulation in America.
