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.

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.

In the following excerpt, Irwin discusses Pulitzer's influence during the era of "yellow journalism" that flourished in the late nineteenth-century.

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 American values such as hard work, thrift, and self-sacrifice, and the emergence of a value system that increasingly celebrated consumption, leisure, and self-indulgence."