A History of Joseph Pulitzer

By Rowan JonesApril 10, 2017

Joseph was born to a German mother, a devout Roman Catholic, Elize Pulitzer (nee Berger) and Fulop Pulitzer, a wealthy grain merchant of Magyar-Jewish origin. Joseph grew up with his younger brother Albert in Budapest, where their father retired.

Joseph’s father died and his business went bankrupt. At the age of seventeen, Joseph decided to become a soldier and attempted to enlist in the Army but was rebuffed because of his weak eyesight and frail health. Both of which would unfortunately plague him continuously during his life. However, it didn’t stop him from joining the Lincoln Cavalry after moving to the USA.

Pulitzer introduced the techniques of yellow journalism to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s, techniques included exaggeration, sensationalism, and scandal-mongering. The term ‘yellow journalism’ was coined by Erwin Wardman in the mid-1890s. It was used to identify the less-than-honourable journalism that used yellow ink, particularly in the battle of the papers between Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World and William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal.

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The Pulitzer Prize For History — 1917 To Present

https://www.bookadvice.co/the-pulitzer-prize-for-history-1917-to-present.html

Trump pointing to 1917 is about Pulitzer and Journalism. Not sure why though.