The Boss, the Bribe and the Newspaper That Couldn’t Be Bought

Posted Friday, November 13, 2026 5:00 am

Matthew Purdy (via The New York Times - Region)

Boss Tweed used New York as a personal piggy bank. The Times brought him down, ushering in a new era of muckraking journalism.

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Keywords

Bribery and Kickbacks, Newspapers, Corruption (Institutional), Tweed, William M, internal-paywall-exempt, anniversary-175, archives-informed, New York Times, Tammany Hall