Herbert Bayard Swope, American journalist (died 1958)

Herbert Bayard Swope Sr. was an American editor, journalist and intimate of the Algonquin Round Table. Swope spent most of his career at the New York World. He was the first and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting. Swope was called the "best reporter in America" by Lord Northcliffe of the London Daily Mail.

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