Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain
American journalist and newspaper editor (1851–1916)
Samuel Selwyn Chamberlain (25 September 1851 – 25 January 1916) was an American journalist and newspaper editor.
Biography
Chamberlain was born on September 25, 1851, in Walworth, New York. He graduated from New York University in 1875. He started his journalistic career at the Newark Advertiser (1873–1874). Within a short time he joined the staff of the New York World. He then moved to the New York Herald (1875–1879) as an assistant editor. He went abroad with James Gordon Bennett Jr. of the Herald, and was for a time editor of the Paris edition of that journal.
In 1879, Chamberlain became editor of the New York World, but left to take charge of the New York Evening Telegram in 1881. He founded Le Matin of Paris in 1884 and was its editor for two years before returning to the United States.
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