William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) was the American publisher, editor, and proprietor--for almost half a century--of the most extensive journalistic empire ever assembled by one man. On April 29, 1863, William Randolph Hearst was born in San...

William Randolph Hearst presided over one of the great financial and communications empires in American history. Truly one of the giants of the publishing industry, he did not confine his interests and influence to journalism alone. He was fascinated...

Larger-than-life American publisher William Randolph Hearst acquired his first newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, in 1886. Over the next two decades, he built a media empire which revolutionized journalism. His dictatorial style and sensational...

William Randolph Hearst defined twentieth-century media for better and for worse. His style of journalism emphasized a focus on the audience, and that approach has resulted in the look and content of today's mass media. Born in San Francisco on...

William Randolph Hearst I (29 April 1863 – 14 August 1951) was an American newspaper magnate. Hearst was a leading newspaper publisher. The son of self-made millionaire George Hearst, he became aware that his father had received a northern...

William Randolph Hearst was the Rupert Murdoch of his day. “He is,” President Teddy Roosevelt once wrote, “the most potent single influence for evil we have in our life.” Hearst inherited his father’s newspaper business and kept going: At his peak, he owned 28 major...

Those kooky new Trojan condom commercials on TV, which magically turn a dirty hog into a beddable dude after he picks up a condom, may work for some people—like, for example, the frat boys who regularly recognize Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively on the street. But...

Sumner Redstone "played down" reports over the last 24 hours that he had becomed estranged from his daughter and once-presumptive heir, Shari Redstone. But the effect of his words was to confirms suspicions, as Richard Siklos and Geraldine Fabrikant write in The New York Times...

When the divorce trial of John Randolph (Bunky) Hearst Jr. and his wife, Barbara, makes its way to Manhattan Supreme Court next month, the missus will presumably jostle for some of the millions of dollars a year that her husband receives as one of the...

This is an essay describing and summarizing the Yellow Press and superficial journalism that is now familiarly referred to as Tabloids. The sensationalistic style of writing introduced by William Randolph Hearst.