Brighton Hadden ( born Briton Hadden ; February 18, 1898 - February 27, 1929) is a co-founder of Time magazine . He founded the publication with his classmate Henry Luce . He was the first Time editor and inventor of the revolutionary writing style known as Timestyle. Despite his short life (he died at 31), he is considered one of the most influential journalists of the twenties, a master innovator and stylist and iconic figure of the Century of Jazz .
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Early years
Hadden began his career as a journalist at the Poly Prep school newspaper in Brooklyn. In addition, he distributed among the classmates the underground manuscript newspaper The Daily Glonk. At age 15, Brighton Hadden moved to the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut. There he met Henry Luce , who became his friend and partner for life. Hadden was the editor-in-chief of the school newspaper Hotchkiss Record, and Luce was his assistant. Both went to Yale , where Hadden became chairman and Luce became editor-in-chief of The Yale Daily News. Luce and Hadden were members of the skull and crossbones secret university community. It was there that they got the idea to create a weekly magazine of a new format.
Career start
Having received a bachelor's degree at Yale University in 1920, Hadden wrote for the New York World newspaper for some time, where Herbert Bayard Swope, one of the most famous and successful editors, instructed him. At the end of 1921, Hadden wrote to Luce, who quit the Chicago Daily News, and offered to work together at Baltimore News. In Baltimore, they spent their nights working on the idea of a news magazine that they originally intended to call Facts.
Time Magazine Foundation
In 1923, Hadden and Luce co-founded Time magazine with Robert Livingston Johnson and a fellow student at Yale University. Hadden and Luce replaced each other for several years as president of the company, but Hadden was the editor-in-chief of the publication for four and a half of the first six years of the magazine’s existence and was considered the “presiding genius”. Johnson served as vice president and advertising director [1] . In the earliest years, the magazine was created at an abandoned brewery, in 1925 the editorial staff moved to Cleveland and returned to New York only in 1927. Over the next year and several months, the Time office was located at 25 W. 45th Street in Manhattan. The editorial board of The New Yorker magazine sat there. Thus, two iconic figures in the world of journalism of the 1920s worked in one building - Brayton Hadden and Harold Ross.
Sickness and death
In December 1928, Hadden became ill. He died two months later, most likely due to Streptococcus viridans , which entered his bloodstream, causing sepsis . Before his death, Hadden signed a will under which all his shares in Time Inc. passed on to his mother and his family was forbidden to sell these shares for 49 years. After the death of Hadden, Luce formed a syndicate, which managed to take control of Hadden's shares, bypassing his last will.
Notes
- ↑ Warburton, Albert. "Robert L. Johnson Hall Dedicated at Temple University" // The Emerald of Sigma Pi. Vol. 48 no. 4. p. 111 .. - 1962.