(1847 – 1911)

Publisher.

Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World.
Pulitzer introduced the techniques of ‘new journalism’ to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected Congressman from New York.

He crusaded against big business and corruption. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal caused both to fight for wider appeal; it opened the way to mass circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue and appealed to readers with multiple forms of news, entertainment and advertising.