Joseph Pulitzer
Hungarian-American newspaper publisher and politician (1847-1911) · United States · Politicians · Died at 64
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Something wrong?His name crowns American journalism's most prestigious awards, but he made his fortune pioneering the opposite: sensationalist yellow journalism that flooded newsstands with scandal, crime, and graphic horror to move a million papers a day.
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, Our republic and its press will rise or fall together.
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice, that does not live by secrecy.
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Pulitzer arrived from Hungary and built his power base through two major newspapers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World, while serving one term in Congress as a Democrat representing New York's 9th district. In the 1890s, locked in brutal competition with William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, he perfected yellow journalism - sensationalism, sex, crime, and lurid spectacle that pushed circulation to a million copies daily and reshaped the economics of American newspapers, making them dependent on advertising revenue rather than cover price or party money. Before he died in 1911, he endowed Columbia University with funds to establish both a journalism school and annual prizes in his name. The school opened in 1912, the prizes in 1917, and both still carry the weight of the standard he spent his career bending.
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