Hearst, William Randolph (1863-1951)
Larger-than-life American publisher William Randolph Hearst acquired his first newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, in 1886. Over the next two decades, he built ...
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Hearst, William Randolph (1863-1951)
William Randolph Hearst defined twentieth-century media for better and for worse. His style of journalism emphasized a focus on the audience, and that approach has...
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William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) was the American publisher, editor, and proprietor--for almost half a century--of the most extensive journalistic empire ever assembled by one man.On April 29, 1863...
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William Randolph Hearst presided over one of the great financial and communications empires in American history. Truly one of the giants of the publishing industry, he did not confine his interests an...
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William Randolph Hearst is important in American history because of his contributions to the journalism industry. He almost single-handedly created what is now known familiarly as the tabloids; a ...
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