All the Competition News That's Fit to Recall
The answer to this great trivia question is: D.M. Redfield. He’s the New Haven, Connecticut reader whose proposed new motto for the New York Times was declared the winner back in 1896.
Wisely, in the end, the NYT decided to stick with “All the news that’s fit to print.” From Adrienne LaFrance’s item for The Altantic about the paper’s $100 tagline-our-paper competition:
The Times wrote that it had received entries from nearly every state in the union — there were 45 of them in 1896 — and signaled out entries from women.
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