Person
Joseph Pulitzer
Newspaper publisher; publisher of the New York World in the 1890s.
Connections 2
head of
- New York World 1895 publisher Primary record 1
involved in
- Sinking of the USS Maine his paper published rumors of plots to sink the ship Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 1895 Joseph Pulitzer head of New York World
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U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism, 1895–1898, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State.
Primary record
Published in color by Pulitzer’s New York World, the comic’s most well-known character came to be known as the Yellow Kid, and his popularity accounted in no small part for a tremendous increase in sales of the World.
but Hearst and Pulitzer, who had for several years been selling papers by fanning anti-Spanish public opinion in the United States, published rumors of plots to sink the ship.
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