# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-medill-patterson
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:46:14.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-medill-patterson"
name: "Joseph Medill Patterson"
slug: "joseph-medill-patterson"
description: "Joseph Medill Patterson was an American journalist and publisher who founded the New York Daily News. At the time of his death, it maintained a Sunday circulation of 4.5 million copies, the largest circulation of any paper in the United States."
tagline: "American politician (1879–1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Medill_Patterson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1879-01-06"
deathDate: "1946-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.85
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.686106666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Medill_Patterson"
    title: "Joseph Medill Patterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "چوزيف ميديل پاتيرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Medill_Patterson"
    title: "Joseph Medill Patterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Паттерсон, Джозеф Медилл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Medill_Patterson"
    title: "Joseph Medill Patterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Medill_Patterson"
    title: "Joseph Medill Patterson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q505393"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump