He had won renown in 1872, when his reporter Henry Morton Stanley, sent by Bennett to Africa in search of the British missionary-explorer David Livingstone, cabled that Livingstone had been found.
Han havde vundet anerkendelse i 1872, da hans reporter Henry Morton Stanley, sendt af Bennett til Afrika på udkig efter den britiske missionærforsker David Livingstone, meddelte, at Livingstone var blevet fundet.