Editing Lafcadio Hearn (section)

====Newspaper and literary work====
[[File:Char - Coal 1880-08-25.jpg|right|thumb|Char-Coal: Cartoon published in ''New Orleans Daily Item'' on 25 August 1880]]
By the strength of his talent as a writer, Hearn obtained a job as a reporter for the ''[[Cincinnati Enquirer|Cincinnati Daily Enquirer]]'', working for the newspaper from 1872 to 1875. Writing with creative freedom in one of Cincinnati's largest circulating newspapers, he became known for his lurid accounts of local murders, developing a reputation as the paper's premier sensational journalist, as well as the author of sensitive accounts of some of the disadvantaged people of Cincinnati. ''[[The Library of America]]'' selected one of these murder accounts, ''Gibbeted,'' for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of ''American True Crime'', published in 2008.<ref>{{cite book | title = True Crime: An American Anthology | editor = Harold Schechter | year = 2008 | publisher = Library of America | isbn = 978-1-59853-031-5 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/truecrimeamerica00haro/page/117 117–130] | url = https://archive.org/details/truecrimeamerica00haro/page/117 }}</ref> After one of his murder stories, the Tanyard Murder, had run for several months in 1874, Hearn established his reputation as Cincinnati's most audacious journalist, and the ''Enquirer'' raised his salary from $10 to $25 per week.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cott |first=Jonathan |url=https://archive.org/details/wanderingghostod00cott |title=Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn |publisher=Knopf |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-394-57152-2 |edition= |location=New York |pages=54 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

In 1874, Hearn and the young [[Henry Farny]], later a renowned painter of the American West, wrote, illustrated, and published an 8-page weekly journal of art, literature and satire entitled ''Ye Giglampz.'' The Cincinnati Public Library reprinted a facsimile of all nine issues in 1983.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll8/id/5311 | title=Ye Giglampz }}</ref> The work was considered by a 20th-century critic to be "Perhaps the most fascinating sustained project he undertook as an editor."<ref>{{cite journal | journal = American Literary Realism, 1870–1910 | title = "Ye Giglampz" and the Apprenticeship of Lafcadio Hearn | volume = 15 | number = 2 | date = Autumn 1982 | pages = 182–194 | author = Jon Christopher Hughes |publisher = University of Illinois Press | jstor = 27746052}}</ref>