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 was born in Budapest in April 1847. Thin,...

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 paradoxical achievements as a "New Journalist" and "yellow...

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 known as the founder of the Pulitzer Prize. Recruited by an American agent,...

Born April 10, 1847 Mako, Hungary Died October 29, 1911 Charleston, South Carolina Publisher who created mass-circulation newspapers that strongly affected government policy Joseph Pulitzer....

Joseph Pulitzer (English pronunciation: /ˈpʊlɪtsɚ/[1]; April 10, 1847[2] – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating...

Saturday 10 a.m. Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum will speak at a citywide conference on special education at City College, 137th Street and Convent Avenue, in the Bronx. 10 a.m. The Parks Department's Natural Resource Group will host a gardening sale of local plants at the...

As Rupert Murdoch continues his $60-a-share courtship of the Bancroft family and their showcase property, The Wall Street Journal, there’s been a fair amount of whining and yelping from journalistic watchdogs nervous about Mr. Murdoch’s intentions. In their dark imaginings, if Mr. Murdoch’s purchase is...

Welcome to The New York Observer. We are the paper with which you have had a relationship with for 19 years and five months. But like the partner with whom you’ve had the relationship for 19 years and five months, we may have slipped off...

The Wall Street Journal won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for exposing excesses of capitalism _ in America and in communist China. The Associated Press captured one for what the judges called a "powerful photograph" of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces.The journalism...

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.

In the following essay Seitz offers a largely anecdotal look at Pulitzer's career as owner/editor of the New York World.

In the following essay, Villard summarizes the editorial history of Pulitzer's newspaper the World.