[1] More than 2,000 employees of the morning, evening and Sunday editions of the World lost their jobs in the merger, although some star writers, including Heywood Broun and Westbrook Pegler, were kept on the new paper.

Publisher Roy Howard, an expert of sorts after travelling to Manchuria and Japan in the early 1930s, gave extensive coverage of Japanese atrocities in China.

Beginning in July 1956, the paper became a center of attention when its reporters Gene Gleason and Fred J. Cook launched an investigative series on New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses.

The information they revealed in the World-Telegram and Sun was a vital resource for Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Moses entitled The Power Broker (1974).

[5] Early in 1966, a proposal to create New York's first joint operating agreement (JOA) led to the merger of the World-Telegram and The Sun with Hearst's Journal American.