Victor Whitman Knauth (10 June 1895 – 2 September 1977) was a journalist, publisher, and broadcasting executive.
He left his studies at Harvard in 1917 to enlist with the 101st Field Artillery Regiment of the American Expeditionary Forces.
He also served as an instructor in field communications at Camp de Souge in Bordeaux, France.
He then worked as a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, San Francisco Chronicle, and New York World.
Knauth wrote copy to promote the opening of the Empire State Building and the development of Rockefeller Center.