Ted Thackrey
Theodore Otis "Ted" Thackrey (November 17, 1901 - October 24, 1980) was an American journalist and publisher, best known as the editor of the "New York Post" in the 1940s, and the founder of the leftist New York City newspaper "The Daily Compass". Biography. Following the demise of 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 founded "The Daily Compass". Thackrey had been 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. In 1948, he became solo publisher of the "Post" at the behest of his wife, leading to a disastrous three-month tenure in which major advertisers dropped the paper and Schiff returned to take over. Thackrey "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. After "The Daily Compass" ceased publication, Thackrey joined the public relations firm Ruder Finn. In 1959, Thackrey and Goldstein testified at the U.S. Senate's "Hearings Before the Select Committee in Improper Activities on the Labor or Management Field", which investigated alleged improprieties by the newspaper deliverers union and forcible payoffs in order to ensure "Compass" distribution. Family. His son, Ted Thackrey Jr. (1918?–2001), whose stepmother was Dorothy Schiff, later worked as a reporter for "The Wichita Eagle" in Wichita, Kansas, before joining the "Los  Angeles Examiner" in the 1950s. He went on to the "Los Angeles Times" in 1968, where he eventually became a rewrite man. He died in July 2001.