The definition of journalism is the collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles in newspapers and magazines and in radio and television broadcasts. It was during the colonial period that the country had its first newspapers and its earliest attempts at various journalistic practices. It held great interest in the public, and to this day, it still does. Many journalist have helped shape journalism into what it is today, but there have been a few that try to change it into something it is not.

One journalist that had a great impact on society was William Randolph Hearst. He was born on April 29, 1963 in San Francisco, California and began his career in newspapers as the proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner. After this, he was able to turn the newspaper into a combination of reformed investigative reporting and lurid sensationalism. A variety of techniques were...