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Apr 2, 2014 · Famous Authors & Writers. Joseph Pulitzer. Newspaper editor and publisher Joseph Pulitzer helped set the pattern of the modern newspaper. In his time, he was one of the most powerful U.S....
Feb 24, 2010 · Joseph Pulitzer was a penniless immigrant who arrived in the U.S. in 1864 speaking no English. He became a reporter, a politician, and, most of all, a media baron who helped shape the history...
Jun 11, 2018 · People. Literature and the Arts. Journalism and Publishing: Biographies. Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer, Joseph. views 1,347,329 updated Jun 11 2018. 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.
Today we share the first of three condensed and lightly edited excerpts from that portrait. A face only a cartoonist could love. By DON CARLOS SEITZ. Joseph Pulitzer was tall, six feet two and a half, but of a presence so commanding as to make his stature seem even greater.
Joseph Pulitzer fought for readership with his nemesis, William Randolph Hearst, in the mid-1890s. Both crossed the line into “yellow journalism” during the Spanish-American War. Pulitzer’s...
A Jewish immigrant from Hungary, Joseph Pulitzer began as a gifted journalist before becoming a successful publisher and businessman. Pulitzer was famous in his own time for his outspoken and...
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York.