Herbert Muschel (died November 1, 2003) was an American businessman and publisher who founded the newspaper PR Newswire.
Early life and education Muschel was born in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. He graduated at New York University with a degree in journalism.
Career In 1954, he founded PR Newswire, which was a cutting edge service that once distributed corporate financial news at a time when the Federal Communications Commission allowed only AT&T and Western Union to send printed messages to a third person. In 1971, Muschel sold PR Newswire to Western Union.
He died on November 1, 2003, at 85 in New York City.
External links Obituary in the New York Times
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