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Article: Read all about it! The newspaper war.(Joseph Pulitzer)(William Randolph Hearst)
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- March 1, 2005
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Rival newspaper owners Joseph Pulitzer and William 'Randolph Hearst would do almost anything to sell more papers. Their tactics changed American journalism.
Born in Hungary, Pulitzer (1847-1911) started his newspaper career in St. Louis, Missouri. He eventually owned and ran the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1883, he went to New York and bought the New York World newspaper.
Pulitzer was passionate about exposing corruption in government and business. He reasoned that not only could such revelations help people, but they sold papers, too! Well-researched facts backed up the sensational stories printed in his newspaper, which drew thousands of new readers ...