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
"Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery."
Joseph Pulitzer is considered the inventor of the modern newspaper as a part of the mass media, which today refers to an entertainment or information source, including print and electronic sources, designed to appeal to a very large audience rather than to a narrower audience of people with special interests. He turned newspapers, which had been largely devoted to political parties and causes, into an entertainment medium. By doing so, Pulitzer achieved political influence for newspapers that had not existed before.
Young Man Overcomes Early Odds
Joseph Pulitzer was born in Mako, Hungary, the son of a well-to-do grain merchant. Pulitzer's father Philip was from a Hungarian-German Jewish family; his mother, Louise, was a Roman Catholic. When Joseph Pulitzer was six, his father had made enough money to retire to Budapest, Hungary's capital, where he paid for private tutors to educate his children.
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