Person
William Randolph Hearst
Newspaper publisher; publisher of the New York Journal in the 1890s.
Connections 2
head of
- New York Journal 1896 publisher Primary record 12
involved in
- Sinking of the USS Maine his paper published rumors of plots to sink the ship Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 1896 William Randolph Hearst head of New York Journal
Proof 2 sources
-
U.S. Diplomacy and Yellow Journalism, 1895–1898, Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State.
Primary record
In 1896, in an effort to boost sales of his New York Journal, Hearst hired Outcault away from Pulitzer, launching a fierce bidding war between the two publishers over the cartoonist.
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.
-
Welcome to the Great Highway: a Hearst myth, American Journalism Review (archive), 2001.
Scholarship & press
Archived copy
The anecdote was about artist Frederic Remington and his assignment to Cuba for William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.
Page history 1 change
- Add 55 stories, each checked against its sources96e92fe6
Something wrong or missing? Tell us, with a source, or edit this page.