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Joseph Pulitzer
Born April 10, 1847
Mako, Hungary
Died October 29, 1911
Charleston, South Carolina
Publisher who created mass-circulation newspapers that strongly affected government policy
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Pulitzer, Joseph (1847-1911)
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-born American journalist and innovative newspaper publisher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but he is perhaps best kn...
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Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), Hungarian-born editor and publisher, was instrumental in developing yellow journalism in the United States.Joseph Pulitzer's father was a well-to-do grain dealer. Joseph w...
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One of the most powerful and respected newspaper publishers in American journalism history, Joseph Pulitzer built his empire with two major newspapers in the post-Civil War era. His somewhat paradoxic...
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In the following excerpt, Irwin discusses Pulitzer's influence during the era of "yellow journalism" that flourished in the late nineteenth-century.
The seeds of yellow journalism...
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In the following essay, Villard summarizes the editorial history of Pulitzer's newspaper the World.
A monument to Joseph Pulitzer the New York World unquestionably is. It is even more than that...
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In the following essay Seitz offers a largely anecdotal look at Pulitzer's career as owner/editor of the New York World.
Joseph Pulitzer was tall—six feet two and a half inches in height...
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In the following essay, Seitz recounts Pulitzer's efforts for the public good, such as his founding of the School of Journalism at Columbia University and other notable endeavors.
The opportuni...
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In the following essay, Bent focuses on the crusades against government and big business corruption undertaken by Pulitzer's newspapers the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Premier a...
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In the following essay, Steele argues that the victory of Pulitzer's World over its competitor the New York Sun in the late nineteenth century "signified the erosion of traditional Ameri...
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Pulitzer, Joseph
Pulitzer, Joseph (1847-1911)
Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer
Critical Essay by Will Irwin
