Legacies Rememebered
People who changed the world
  • Index of People Who Changed the World
  • Index of People Who Changed the World
  • Home
  • /
  • Uncategorized

Joseph Pulitzer – 1847-1911

Joseph-PulitzerBorn in Hungary, Pulitzer immigrated to the United States in 1864 to fight in the Civil War. He became a Germanlanguage reporter after the war, bought into the St. Louis paper for which he worked, sold his share at a profit, and repeated the process with another paper. By 1878, he was publishing the city’s most important (English-language) daily, and in 1883 he moved to New York, where he purchased the World and transformed it into the city’s leading paper. Pulitzer engaged in a fierce circulation war with rival William Randolph Hearst in the late 1890s, giving rise to the era of “yellow journalism.” Pulitzer established many of the practices of modern journalism. He posthumously endowed the Columbia University School of Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in journalism and other creative fields.

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Natalie. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.
Elvis Presley – 1935-1977
Pullman George Mortimer – 1831–1897

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *




    Categories

    • Anthropologists
    • Architects
    • Astronomers
    • Biologists
    • Botanists
    • Cartographers
    • Chemists
    • Geneticians
    • Geologists
    • Humanitarians
    • Inventors
    • Mathematicians
    • Oceanographer
    • Photographers
    • Physicians
    • Physicists
    • Programmers
    • Researchers
    • Scientists
    • Uncategorized
    • Writers

Recent Posts

  • Vladimir Zworykin – 1889-1982
  • Florenz Ziegfeld – 1869-1932
  • John Peter Zenger – 1697-1746
  • Frank Zappa – 1940-1993
  • Younger Brothers
  • Brigham Young – 1801-1877
  • George Wythe – 1726-1806
  • Richard Wright – 1980-1960
  • Orville and Wilbur Wright – 1871–1948 and 1867–1912
  • Frank Lloyd Wright – 1867-1959

Recent Comments

  • Harold Gehrmann on Francis Crick / James Watson

Categories

  • Anthropologists
  • Architects
  • Astronomers
  • Biologists
  • Botanists
  • Cartographers
  • Chemists
  • Geneticians
  • Geologists
  • Humanitarians
  • Inventors
  • Mathematicians
  • Oceanographer
  • Photographers
  • Physicians
  • Physicists
  • Programmers
  • Researchers
  • Scientists
  • Uncategorized
  • Writers
Powered by