William Randolph Hearst
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican newspaper publisher (1863-1951)
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher and politician. He laid the foundation for the Hearst family's mass media empire via his control of the Hearst Corporation.
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Hearst c. 1885
An ad asking automakers to place ads in Hearst chain, noting their circulation
A caricature of Hearst published in The Wasp, November 21, 1896
Left to right: Hearst, Robert G. Vignola, and Arthur Brisbane during the filming of Vignola's The World and His Wife in New York City in April 1920
Hearst, c. 1900
"The Wizard of Ooze," a 1906 political cartoon, shows Hearst as the Scarecrow character from the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz sliding helplessly into a mud puddle while the stick that had held him upright still supports his hat. The cartoon was drawn by William Allen Rogers and published in Harper's Weekly.
A cartoon from the October 31, 1905, edition of Puck magazine; seen as supporting "Hoist" in his bid for governor are Happy Hooligan, Foxy Grandpa, Alphonse and Gaston, Buster Brown, The Katzenjammer Kids, and Maud the mule. All of these comic strips ran in newspapers owned by Hearst.In their orbit 8
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William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher and politician. He laid the foundation for the Hearst family's mass media empire via his control of the Hearst Corporation. His extravagant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human-interest stories. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 with Mitchell Trubitt after being entrusted with The San Francisco Examiner by his wealthy father, Senator George Hearst.
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