The Daily Compass

The Daily Compass

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Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	Ted Thackrey
Publisher	Ted Thackrey
Founded	1949 (1949)
Ceased publication	1952

The Daily Compass was an American leftist newspaper in New York City, New York, published from May 16, 1949 through November 3, 1952. It is best known for its columns by the investigative journalist I. F. Stone.

Its Online Computer Library Center record number is OCLC 09316051.

The Daily Compass, which included the weekend Sunday Compass, was a 1949-1952 successor to the leftist New York City newspaper PM, published from June 1940 to June 22, 1948, and that paper's first successor, the New York Star, published from June 23, 1948, to January 28, 1949.

Ted Thackrey — the features editor of the New York Post before marrying Post owner Dorothy Schiff in 1943, after which the two became co-publishers/co-editors — had become solo publisher of the Post, at the behest of his wife, for a disastrous three months. He then "left with a following of firebrand writers to start his own paper", buying the building and physical plant at which PM and the Star had been published, at Duane Street and Hudson Street in Manhattan. With private financing, he founded The Daily Compass as its publisher and president. The paper began publishing on May 16, 1949, and ceased publication in November 1952.

The investigative journalist I. F. Stone wrote a column six days a week.Jazz club impresario Art D'Lugoff, then spelling his name Art Dlugoff, was a copy boy at the paper, as was future Newsday sports writer Stan Isaacs. The city editor / managing editor, Tom O'Connor, who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in May 1952 without testifying or naming others, died of a heart attack at The Daily Compass offices while watching a televised broadcast of the Democratic National Convention on July 24, 1952.