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{{short description|Weekly American national newspaper}}
{{Other uses|National Observer (disambiguation)}}
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| name                 = National Observer
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| owners               = [[Dow Jones & Company]] 
| founder              = [[Bernard Kilgore]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Kandel|first=Myron|title=Bookshelf; Making the News New; A portrait of the man who did so much to shape the modern Wall Street Journal.|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123655953665866513|accessdate=22 May 2012|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=9 Mar 2009}}</ref>
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| foundation           = {{Start date|1962|02|04}}
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| ceased publication   = {{end date|1977|07|11}}
| headquarters         = [[Washington, D.C.]]
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| sister newspapers    = [[Wall Street Journal]]
| ISSN                 = 0027-9803
| oclc                 = 1759309 
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The '''''National Observer''''' was a weekly American general-interest national [[newspaper]] published by [[Dow Jones & Company]] from 1962 until July 11, 1977.<ref name="WSJ">{{cite news|title=Follow the Numbers: IN 125 YEARS, Dow Jones has grown into the definitive source of business journalism. |url=https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-DJTimeline0706.html|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=22 May 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Pardue|first=Mary Jane|title=The Wall Street Journal and the Invention of Modern Journalism|journal=Newspaper Research Journal|date=1 July 2009|volume=30|issue=3|pages=122–124|doi=10.1177/073953290903000310 |s2cid=220080244 }}</ref>  [[Hunter S. Thompson]] wrote several articles for the ''National Observer'' as the correspondent for [[Latin America]] early in his career.

The newspaper was the inspiration of [[Barney Kilgore]], then the president of Dow Jones. (Kilgore is credited as the "genius" who transformed the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' from a provincial financial daily with a circulation of 32,000, mostly on [[Wall Street]], into the national giant it became.)

It was Kilgore's idea that the nation needed a weekly national newspaper that would synthesize all the week's events and current trends into an attractive, convenient package. In effect, the ''National Observer ''would offer the kind of quality non-financial journalism that the ''Wall Street Journal'' once featured in its front-page "leaders" (the articles that occupy the left- and right-hand columns).<ref name="AJR">{{cite news|last=Morton|first=John|title=Great While It Lasted |url=http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=2721|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606031402/https://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=2721|archive-date=June 6, 2011|newspaper=American Journalism Review|date=December 2002|access-date=September 7, 2021}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Tofel, Richard J. ''Restless Genius: Barney Kilgore, The Wall Street Journal, and the Invention of Modern Journalism'' New York, NY.: St. Martins Press, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-312-53674-9}}

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