A powerful editor and publisher Joseph Pulitzer (b. Mako, Hungary, 1847, d. 1911) helped establish the foundations for the modern American newspaper.
Pulitzer received a classical education in Budapest, Hungary. He emigrated to the United States when he was 17 years of age and served briefly in the Union Army during the Civil War. He then went to St. Louis, where he started (1868) his journalistic career.
The famous Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for outstanding work in American journalism.
First awarded in 1917, they were established by Joseph Pulitzer, who ran a newspaper called the World in New York City in the 1880s and 1890s. Joseph Pulitzer left in his will $2 million to Columbia University to establish a school of journalism, specifying that $500,000 should be used to maintain annual prizes for the advancement of journalism and letters.
You might think Pulitzer's journalistic standards were high, but you would be wrong. There's much irony in the fact that the name now associated with excellence was once a synonym for sensationalism, inaccuracy and what we now consider to be unethical journalistic behaviour.
Pulitzer was a spiritual successor of Ben Day, who founded the Sun back in 1833 as the mass newspaper. Famous publishers: Joseph Pulitzer
A powerful editor and publisher Joseph Pulitzer (b. Mako, Hungary, 1847, d. 1911) helped establish the foundations for the modern American newspaper.
Pulitzer received a classical education in Budapest, Hungary. He emigrated to the United States when he was 17 years of age and served briefly in the Union Army during the Civil War. He then went to St. Louis, where he started (1868) his journalistic career.
The famous Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for outstanding work in American journalism.
First awarded in 1917, they were established by Joseph Pulitzer, who ran a newspaper called the World in New York City in the 1880s and 1890s. Joseph Pulitzer left in his will $2 million to Columbia University to establish a school of journalism, specifying that $500,000 should be used to maintain annual prizes for the advancement of journalism and letters.
You might think Pulitzer's journalistic standards were high, but you would be wrong. There's much irony in the fact that the name now associated with excellence was once a synonym for sensationalism, inaccuracy and what we now consider to be unethical journalistic behavior. Pulitzer was a spiritual successor of Ben Day, who founded the Sun back in 1833 as the mass newspaper.
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