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Joseph Pulitzer (/ ˈ p ʊ l ɪ t s ər / PUUL-it-sər; [2] [a] born Pulitzer József, Hungarian: [ˈpulit͡sɛr ˈjoːʒɛf]; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World.
Joseph Pulitzer raged at the insult, but slowly began to respect Cobb's editorials and independent spirit. Exchanges, commentaries, and messages between them increased. The good rapport between the two was based largely on Cobb's flexibility. In May 1908, Cobb and Pulitzer met to outline plans for a consistent editorial policy. [citation needed]
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, full-length, dressed as the Yellow Kid, a satire of their role in drumming up USA public opinion to go to war with Spain. The two newspaper owners credited with developing the journalistic style of yellow journalism were William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer. These two were fighting a ...
The two newspapers that ran the Yellow Kid, Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal, quickly became known as the yellow kid papers.This was contracted to the yellow papers and the term yellow kid journalism was at last shortened to yellow journalism, describing the two newspapers' editorial practices of taking (sometimes even fictionalized) sensationalism and profit as priorities in journalism.
An English magazine in 1898 noted, "All American journalism is not 'yellow', though all strictly 'up-to-date' yellow journalism is American!" [6] The term was coined in the mid-1890s to characterize the sensational journalism in the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. The ...
In January 1898, Captain P. C. Cordiner sailed the Joseph Pulitzer around the Horn of Africa to Astoria, Oregon. She was purchased by the Oregon Pilots Association. Captain W. A. Harvey and a crew of six Norwegian sailors sailed her from Hoboken, New Jersey to Oregon. [9] In 1903, the Oregon bar pilots paid $13,000 for the Joseph Pulitzer. [10]
In City Hall Park a day later, [10] they declared a strike against the papers of Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the World, and William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the Journal, until prices were rolled back to 50¢ per hundred. [2] The newsboys of Manhattan and Brooklyn were quick to follow on July 20. [11]
On February 15, 1898, an explosion aboard the USS Maine in Havana harbor killed 260 US personnel. Public opinion in the U.S., driven in part by the yellow journalism of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer , blamed Spain, though Spain had no reason for wanting to provoke the U.S. to intervene in Cuba's war for independence , then more ...