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Millicent Willson. William Randolph Hearst Jr. (January 27, 1908 – May 14, 1993) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher and member of the wealthy Hearst family. He was the second son of the publisher William Randolph Hearst. He became editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father in 1951.
- January 27, 1908, New York City, U.S.
May 16, 1993 · William Randolph Hearst Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the editor in chief of the media empire his father founded, died Friday night at New York Hospital. He was 85 and lived in ...
Dec 15, 2009 · William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) launched his career by taking charge of his father’s struggling newspaper the San Francisco Examiner in 1887. ... William Randolph Jr., John, Randolph and ...
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William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills on August 14, 1951, at the age of 88. He was interred in the Hearst family mausoleum at the Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma, California. All of his sons followed their father into the media business and his namesake, William Randolph, Jr., became a Pulitzer Prize-winning Hearst newspaper reporter.
William Randolph Hearst Sr. ( / hɜːrst /; [1] April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher, and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and ...
The William Randolph Hearst, Jr., papers are held at the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Hearst’s memoir, written with Jack Casserly, is The Hearsts: Father and Son (1991); extensive biographical material is also in Judith Robinson, The Hearsts: An American Dynasty (1991).
May 15, 1993 · William Randolph Hearst Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor in chief of the Hearst newspapers and an heir to the publishing empire established by his father, died Friday in New York. He was 85.
