William Randolph Hearst
By Jamoryon J and Jimmie B
William Randolph was an American newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper company, and his methods that influenced American journalism. William Randolph Hearst was born in San Francisco, California on April 29, 1863. Hearst went to Harvard college. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 after taking control of The San Francisco Examiner from his father. Moving to New York City, he got the New York Journal, and engaged in a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World that led to the creation of yellow journalism sensationalized stories of dubious veracity. Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst created a chain that numbered nearly 30 papers in major American cities at its peak. He
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Hearst also liked politics and was elected to the U.S House of representatives. Just after that he was doing newspapers for all over the world. But it turned out that he was not great newspaper maker. In 1903 he In 1887 Hearst father gave him full control of the San Francisco examiner. Later on married Millicent willson, They had five sons. In 1905 through 1906 William ran for Mayor for New York and he lost. William Made a lot of money. spent some of his money on one of the biggest castles in the world which he spent 37 million dollars on the castle
Hearst was a rich guy that lived in a huge castle. He was also a famous person for writing newspapers. Hearst also died in Beverly Hills on August 14, 1951. All of his kids followed behind her dad, by working with the media company.
Hearst’s newspapers affected people, because it informed, citizens and entertained us, it made us laugh and smile. Williams work lead to big things,we still use newspapers or we can look on the internet. People all around the world uses newspapers and other similar things, to be honest I even use it. I used it to write this
William Bowers Bourn II was born on May 31, 1857 in San Francisco, California. His father, William Bowers Bourn I was a successful Massachusetts merchant who brought his wife, Sarah Esther Bourn, west to San Francisco in search of wealth. It was not long after their arrival in 1850 until he established himself in the financial world of San Francisco. His investments included a commercial banking business, mining stock and the San Francisco Gas Company. William developed a special interest in mining, and took full control and ownership of the Empire Mine in Grass Valley, California. In 1874, William suffered a tragic accident with a pistol, shooting himself in the stomach to his death. His legacy and empire was left to his son, William II, for a future of greatness.
Andrew Carnegie was born into a middle class family, he was born November 25, 1835 in Scotland, and died August 11,1919. When Andrew Carnegie was just a child his country was going through economic problems. The economic problems caused many people to find jobs, and which affected his father. They had to make a decision to move to the united states,he was 12 years when he start to work in a cotton factory as a bobbin boy. When Andrew Carnegie was 14 he became a messenger for the telegraph, he was a such a good messenger that he became Thomas Scott personal secretary, and telegraph in 1855. In document A, you can read about him, when he was young.
oldest of four children. He was known for being the fun one entertaining one of his family and of
Later he returned back to the US and decided to run for the Republican nomination for the 1880 election but was defeated by James Garfield. After that he invested most of his money in the bank firm Grant and Ward, that his son and partner owned but Grant did not know that Ward was involved in a fraud which caused all of the firm's money to be lost. After the fraud he lost all of his money and was now broke, so in order to make some money he started writing newspaper articles about what he went through during the civil war. He soon found out that he liked writing and decided to start writing his story, the company to which he was working for offered to publish it but he declined the offer and instead took the offer his friend Mark Twain had given him. While he was writing his book he discovered that he had severe throat cancer from all the years he had spent smoking. He soon lost his voice and only continued to write his story, just days before he died he finished it and it was a such success that his family did not have to worry about anything financially. He died on July 23, 1885 and was buried in
Link starts his book by giving details on Wilson’s life starting in Staunton, Virginia on December 29, 1856 when Wilson was born.(Link.pg1) Wilson was a scholar. He attended Davidson College and Princeton University. Next, he attended University of Virginia where he studied law. Finally, Wilson studied political science and history at John Hopkins University. Next, with his numerous degrees and extensive knowledge, Wilson taught at a verity of universities between 1885 and 1902, as well as being the dean of a graduate school in 1910. (Link.pg1). Finally in 1912 Wilson ran for president of the United States and won.
George Hearst, William’s father was born in 1820 on a frontier plantation in Franklin, Missouri. George’s father died when he was 26. George was a very hard worker and loved his family very much. He worked odd jobs and in mines to pay off his fathers debt and to take care of his mother, sister and little brother. Mining fascinated young George and even though he could barely read he dwelled into geology books to learn more.
James Buchanan Jr., the 15th president of the United States, was born in Cove Gap in
writing was weak during grade school, but his great pieces came his senior year at Harvard. He became editor for the Harvard Lampoon, which is the school’s newspaper.
He found a job as an office boy for two lawyers and later an apprentice as a printer for a local newspaper, “Patriot”. There he learned many useful things like how to use the printing press and typesetting. In 1833, his family moved back to Long Island and there he continued to work for several newspapers. In 1836, at the age of 17, he began his career as teacher but stopped when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. He founded a weekly new...
Patty Hearst was kidnapped from the University of California at Berkeley by the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army) when she was 19 years old. When she got kidnapped the SLA told her she had to join them or she gets hurt. She recorded an audiotape that could be heard around the world, saying that she is now part of the SLA. When she joined them, she participated in a criminal activity with the SLA in California. When she did the crime, they said that it was robbery and extortion. She took two million dollars from her father for the SLA so they could take over the world and the people.
Born in Virginia in 1856, Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the son of two middle-class parents, his father being a Presbyterian minister. Throughout his early years, Wilson found his niche in learning and made it his dream to attend college; he achieved that goal when he was accepted and attended Davidson College in 1873 (Brands 8). After attending Davidson, Wilson branched out and not only went to the college of New Jersey, but also began to study law at the University of Virginia. The years which followed his studies also proved to be as prosperous because he became a professor and the president of Princeton University, as well as becoming the governor of New Jersey in 1910 (Brands 92-97). Although the life Wilson led prior to 1910 was suitable for him, he still felt that he could make a difference; politics were his outlet. Only two years after Wilson became governor of New Jersey, he decided to run against Roosevelt and Taft in the presidential election. Fortunately, he won the election and became President of the United States on March 4th, 1913 (Brands 25). Nevertheless, the events that occu...
Then, started doing numerous jobs after that; he lost his main job by stamping goods that were suppose to be examined but weren’t. His first wife died after less then a year of marriage, and he was separated from his second wife after three years. Throughout this time he found himself going thru scandals. He landed a job in Philadelphia as a journalist making a name for himself first for a spokesman against slavery and then as the anonymous author of Common Sense.
...Mako, Hungary, the eldest son of Hungarian Jews. His father, Philip, was a prosperous grain merchant, who died when Joseph was eleven. A few years later his mother married Max Blau, a businessman. Pulitzer was educated in a private school in Budapest. His first business as a boss stevedore in St. Louis failed. Pulitzer worked as a waiter, buried cholera victims of 1866 on Arsenal Island, and eventually found work as a reporter, first in St. Louis on the Westliche Post, a German-language newspaper. In 1877 he married Kate Davis, a niece of Jefferson Davis. Pulitzer soon died of a heart disease aboard his yacht, the Liberty, on October 29, 1911.
Over the next few decades, Murdoch purchased a large number of newspaper companies all over the world, Australia, US and the United Kingdom. Within 50 years, his news Corporation came to own more than 800 copies in over 50 countries. This pushed his personal net worth up to 13.9 billion and made him one of the richest and more influential people in the world.
The public was further angered by something called “yellow journalism”. Yellow journalism refers to writers such as Joseph Pullitzer and William Hearst trying to outdo each other with screeching headlines and hair raising “scoops”. Where there were no headlines, the yellow press would exaggerate and fabricate stories to get readers interested in their newspaper. For example, Hearst once wrote about Spanish Customs Offic...