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Wall Street's Forgotten Financial News Genius

By: Paul M. McCarthy
September / October 2018

September 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

All but Forgotten John J. Kiernan was a pioneer in the financial news industry and the inventor of ticker tape news. A lone figure, etched against the burgeoning lower Manhattan skyline, rowed his tiny skiff toward the white-capped inner port. This was no fitness buff; his dark suit and bowler hat rose and dipped rhythmically from one ship to another, visits to each brief … [Read more...] about Wall Street's Forgotten Financial News Genius

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