The Boston Journal

Former contributors

• Charles Carleton Coffin, war correspondent who wrote dispatches from the front under the byline "Carlton".
• Stephen O'Meara, reporter, city editor, managing editor, general manager, editor-in-chief and publisher, and majority owner. Later served as the first commissioner of the Boston Police Department.
• Thomas Freeman Porter
• Benjamin Perley Poore, Washington correspondent and war correspondent who wrote under the byline "Perley".
• John Sherburne Sleeper, principal editor and part owner of the newspaper. Sleeper wrote the Journals "Tales of the Seas" under his nom de plume of Hawser Martingale.

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