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  Crucible of Empire - PBS Online
William Randolph Hearst, son of wealthy U.S. Senator George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson Hearst, was born in San Francisco in 1863.
Hearst's passion for journalism began when he was a young man. As a student at Harvard, Hearst worked on the Harvard Lampoon and later apprenticed with New York World owner Joseph Pulitzer.
In 1898, Hearst chartered the yacht Sylvia to Cuba to witness battles between the U.S. Navy and the Spanish Fleet.
www.pbs.org /crucible/bio_hearst.html   (520 words)

  
  William Randolph Hearst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hearst built a life for herself as a leading philanthropist, active in society, and creating in 1921 the Free Milk Fund for the poor.
Hearst died in 1951, aged eighty-eight, at Beverly Hills, California, and is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.
One Hearst favorite, George Herriman, was the inventor of the dizzy comic strip Krazy Kat; not especially popular with either readers or editors, it is now considered by many to be a classic, a belief once held only by Hearst himself.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst   (1769 words)

  
 William Randolph Hearst
Hearst's interest in politics led him to election to the United States House of Representatives as a Congressman from New York in 1902.
Hearst was a major producer of movie newsreels with his company Hearst Metrotone News, and is widely credited with creating the comic strip syndication business.
Hearst's grandson, George R. Hearst, Jr., is chairman of the board of The Hearst Corporation.
www.hearstcastle.org /history/william_r_hearst.asp   (875 words)

  
 Phoebe Hearst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Phoebe Apperson Hearst (1842-1919) was born in Franklin County, Missouri.
A major benefactor of the University of California in 1897 she became the first woman Regent of the University of California, serving on the board from 1897 until her death.
Hearst was a member of the Bahá'í Faith.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phoebe_Hearst   (198 words)

  
 Hearst, William Randolph. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1887, Hearst persuaded his father, George Hearst, to place him in charge of the San Francisco Examiner, where he experimented profitably with flamboyant pictures, shrieking typography, and earthy, mass-appeal news coverage; the paper remained in Hearst Corporation hands until 2000.
By the time Hearst had established his supremacy in “penny journalism,” his funds were almost exhausted, but he had gained a foothold for the great newspaper empire he was to erect.
Hearst served in the House of Representatives (1903–7) but was defeated as candidate for mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909 and for governor of New York in 1906.
www.bartleby.com /65/he/Hearst-W.html   (479 words)

  
 CBS News | Patty Hearst: Elizabeth Needs Protection | March 17, 2003 01:56:42
Hearst, who was only 19 when she was abducted, wound up spending 32 months in jail and endured a psychological and legal ordeal of extraordinary length.
Hearst says in terms of prosecuting the kidnappers, she sees no reason for Elizabeth to have to go public with all of the details of everything that happened to her during the past nine months, since kidnapping already carries a long sentence.
Hearst believes the key to recovery for Elizabeth will be the time spent with her family - the same thing that helped Hearst, even though she had to wait to get out of jail.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/03/14/national/main543980.shtml   (1135 words)

  
 Hearst Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hearst Corporation is a large privately-held media conglomerate based in New York City.
The Hearst family is involved in the ownership and management of the company.
Under William Randolph Hearst's will, a common board of thirteen trustees--five family members and eight outsiders--administers the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns (and selects the 21-member board of) the Hearst Corporation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hearst_Corporation   (327 words)

  
 William Randolph Hearst
Hearst was a member of the United States House of Representatives (1903-07) However, he was defeated for mayor (1905 and 1909) and the post of governor of New York (1906).
Hearst upset the left-wing in America by being a pro-Nazi in the 1930s and a staunch anti-Communist in the 1940s.
Hearst, in journalism, was like a reformer in politics; he was an innovator who was crashing into the business, upsetting the settled order of things, and he was not doing it as we would have done it (The American Magazine).
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhearst.htm   (382 words)

  
 Comic creator: William Randolph Hearst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
William Randolph Hearst, the famous American newspaper tycoon, was born in San Francisco in 1863, as the son of a wealthy father who made his fortune in mining.
Hearst studied journalism at Harvard, where he was influenced by the great newspaper man Joseph Pulitzer, whose biggest rival he would later become.
Hearst's ferocious and often immoral style of journalism was soon called "yellow journalism", after the strip 'The Yellow Kid' by R.F. Outcault which was printed in one of Hearst's papers (the first to be able to print a lasting color yellow).
www.lambiek.net /hearst_wr.htm   (685 words)

  
 The Publishing War Between Hearst & Pulitzer
Hearst, not to be outdone, adopted similar tactics of yellow journalism to increase the circulation of his newspaper in an attempt to beat Pulitzer at his own game.
Hearst took special interest in the war, going so far as to personally edit all of the related stories.
Hearst and Pulitzer both dispatched journalists to cover the Cuban rebellion and the ensuing war.
alt.tnt.tv /movies/tntoriginals/roughriders/jour.publishwar.html   (268 words)

  
 William Randolph Hearst - People of California
Hearst refined the circulation-boosting methods that he used with the Examiner, and the Journal boomed.
Hearst's papers did not lose their often sensational tactics, and his use of the papers to advocate war with Spain over Cuba in 1897 led charges of "yellow journalism" to fly.
William Randolph Hearst died in Beverly Hills, California on August 14, 1951 at the age of 88.
www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/ca_wrh.htm   (383 words)

  
 CNN Programs - People in the News
Her father, Randolph A. Hearst, was chairman of the board of the Hearst Corp., which owns a chain of newspapers, magazines and radio and TV stations.
Hearst said her confinement was part of the group's brainwashing strategy.
Hearst remained out of the spotlight until the release of her autobiography in 1982.
www.cnn.com /CNN/Programs/people/shows/hearst/profile.html   (2022 words)

  
 Welcome to Hearst Castle
Hearst Castle Press, a collaboration between California State Parks and Friends of Hearst Castle, publishes books that educate and inspire interest in the art and history of Hearst Castle.
For the first time ever, the largest display of treasures from the Hearst Collection can be seen at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento, CA More Info
and "The Enchanted Hill" are registered trademarks of Hearst Castle®/California State Parks.
www.hearst-castle.org   (94 words)

  
 Hearst, William Randolph on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hearst served in the House of Representatives (1903-7) but was defeated as candidate for mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909 and for governor of New York in 1906.
OBIT/Millicent Hearst Boudjakdji, President of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and a Director of The Hearst Corporation, Dead at 63.
FILM: Biting the bullet; The Patty Hearst kidnap saw the revolution go live on TV for the first time.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/hearst-w1.asp   (752 words)

  
 Hearst, Soliah and the S.L.A.
HEARST, SOLIAH AND THE S.L.A. By Katherine Ramsland
Patty's doting father, Randolph Hearst, had initially responded to the SLA's demands (made by tape and given to the media) by distributing millions of dollars worth of food to the poor, which badly backfired.
The Hearsts believed that she was being forced to say these things, but then they received a photo of her with a carbine rifle in her arms, standing next to the seven-headed cobra, which was the SLA's symbol.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/terrorists/hearst/1.html   (846 words)

  
 William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951]
William Randolph Hearst was born on April 29, 1863, in San Francisco, California, as the only child of George Hearst, a self-made multimillionaire miner and rancher, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
Hearst was a member of the United States House of Representatives (1903-07) In the 1920s Hearst built a castle on a 240,000 acre ranch at San Simeon, California.
Hearst papers portrayed Mexicans as lazy, degenerate, and violent, and as marijuana smokers a nd job stealers.
www.zpub.com /sf/history/willh.html   (1490 words)

  
 Sean Byrne : William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst, owner of more than a dozen newspapers throughout the country has often be vilified for his role in the tasteless, insensitive and outrageous headlines that grace the pages of America's newspapers.
Hearst, are more interested in sensationalistic eye catching headlines that snare readers into spending their hard earned pennies, only to have them find that the story does not live up to the hype or sometimes even the facts that you have supplied.
Louella Parsons a favorite Hearst columnist threatened the executives from RKO Studios that she would print fictional versions of their lives in her column if the movie were not pulled from release.
www.nyu.edu /classes/keefer/ww1/byrne.html   (3247 words)

  
 Hearst New Media Lectures - Jack Shafer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hearst, who was a sometime Franklin Roosevelt supporter, paid a variety of world leaders top dollar for their views, as David Nasaw writes in his biography of Hearst, The Chief.
If Hearst were alive today, I'm certain that he'd approve of the support his foundation has extended to the study of new media because he was a new media hound.
In the mid-1920s, when commercial radio was just a half-decade old, Hearst was already invested, and he personally took to his radio pulpit to sermonize on the issues of the day to his listeners.
www.jrn.columbia.edu /events/hearst/shafer-trans.asp   (3933 words)

  
 Hearst, Randolph Apperson --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Hearst was quite willing to take credit for this, as his New York City newspaper testified in an 1898 headline: “How Do You Like the Journal's War?” His controversial life became the...
Hearst shared a 1956 Pulitzer prize for international reporting shortly after being named editor in chief of the Hearst Corporation.
U.S. newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in 1974 by leftist radicals called the Symbionese Liberation Army, whom under duress she joined in robbery and extortion.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9345350?tocId=9345350   (673 words)

  
 Hearst Group: Overview
Founded by William Randolph Hearst (supposedly the inspiration for a 1941 love letter from Orson Welles titled Citizen Kane) Hearst Corporation is a major New York based publishing conglomerate, still controlled by the Hearst family.
Hearst is the world's largest publisher of monthly magazines, with 16 US titles and 98 international editions distributed in more than 100 countries.
William Randolph Hearst (1863—1951) was the son of Californian mining magnate and senator George Hearst (1820—91).
www.ketupa.net /hearst.htm   (802 words)

  
 Hearst
While Hearst was a boy, his father traveled through the West becoming partners in three of the largest mining discoveries ever recorded in American history: the Comstock Lode, Homestake Mine in South Dakota and the Anaconda Mine in Montana.
Both Hearst and Pulitzer published images of Spanish troops placing Cubans into concentration camps where they were suffered and died from disease and hunger.
Hearst was interested in politics, and elected twice to the U.S. House of Representatives.
www.spanamwar.com /Hearst.htm   (1014 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: William Randolph Hearst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Hearst's newspapers were distinguished largely by their style.
In his efforts to reach the widest possible audience, Hearst directed his editors to seize upon the human element in the news, to encourage writers to craft stories which emphasized similarities among Americans by underlining universal fears and desires.
Hearst reveled in his role as eccentric kingmaker, unabashedly using his media power to promote his friends and ruin his enemies.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200527   (1140 words)

  
 BW Online | July 8, 2002 | Parting the Veil at Hearst
Hearst derives 60% of its revenue from ads--and the worst advertising recession in decades still lingers.
The Hearst CEO is as accountable to the heirs as a chief executive of a public company is to its shareholders.
Hearst's decision to pull out of its 50-50 Talk partnership with Disney's Miramax Films Inc. unit led to the title's demise in January after 2 1/2 years of losses, estimated to be about $20 million for Hearst.
www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/02_27/b3790095.htm   (2528 words)

  
 Hearst Corporate Site
Named president of Hearst Newspapers in January 1998, George Irish heads one of America’s leading newspaper groups, with 6,000 employees across the nation.
Hearst Newspapers—including the San Francisco Chronicle and the Houston Chronicle—recently joined a consortium of more than 200 daily newspapers across the U.S. to create a strategic partnership with Yahoo!.
Hearst acquired the Jasper NewsBoy, the Hardin County News and the Mid County Chronicle, along with the daily Beaumont Enterprise, in 1984.
www.hearstcorp.com /newspapers   (1424 words)

  
 Hearst San Simeon SHM
Hearst Castle is located on California Highway 1, about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
"Hearst Castle", "Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument", "La Cuesta Encantada" and "The Enchanted Hill" are registered trademarks of Hearst Castle®/California State Parks.
Please be advised, Hearst San Simeon SHP is one of the few California State Parks that does not accept the Annual Day Use Pass.
www.parks.ca.gov /?page_id=591   (618 words)

  
 Hearst Corporate Site
Hearst Magazines International (HMI) is another major growth business, having posted a 17 percent earnings gain for the year, for a compounded earnings gain of 36 percent since 2001.
Hearst Integrated Media, formerly The Hearst Group, is another example of diversification, combining major-client advertising with customized and integrated marketing services.
Hearst Integrated Media, Hearst Magazines’ corporate sales and marketing unit, brings a unique three-step process to the way we craft opportunities for each client.
www.hearst.com /magazines   (1562 words)

  
 Patricia Hearst
Patricia Hearst is the heiress to the Hearst fortune.
President Bill Clinton pardoned Patricia Hearst Shaw (Patricia married her bodyguard, Bernard Shaw) during the midnight hours of his term--a pardon of which surprisingly little has been mentioned in the media (probably due to the infamous Rich pardon).
Finally, it seems that Patricia Hearst has been, at least, officially vindicated of whatever misdeeds she committed under the influence of the S.L.A.     If you would like to know more about Patricia Hearst, there are a wealth of books available.
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Theater/2854/patty.htm   (563 words)

  
 Introduction to Images of the Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, by Julia Morgan.
Although Phoebe Apperson Hearst had aided Julia Morgan's early career, her more famous son, William Randolph Hearst, the publishing magnate, art collector, and movie producer, entered Morgan's life with the commissioning of a Sausalito house (1912-14), which was never built, and a cottage on his Grand Canyon property (1914), since demolished.
In 1919 Hearst and Morgan began discussions about a residence on the top of a hill in the Santa Lucia mountains near San Simeon--a hilltop called "Camp Hill" by the family.
Hearst and his family had camped on this hill in tents erected on wooden platforms when they vacationed on his 250,000 acre Piedra Blanca Ranch during the first two decades of the 20th century.
www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/jmhearstss/intro.html   (586 words)

  
 The William Randolph Hearst Foundations
The Hearst Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1945 by philanthropist William Randolph Hearst.
The charitable goals of the two Foundations are essentially the same, and reflect the philanthropic interests of William Randolph Hearst -- Education, Health, Social Service and Culture.
Specific guidelines for each of these funding categories have been established by the Directors of the Hearst Foundations, and are described in each section.
www.hearstfdn.org   (360 words)

  
 Homepage for Marti Hearst
Marti Hearst is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division.
She received BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and she was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997.
Hearst is on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on the Web and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction and was formerly on the boards of Computational Linguistics, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, and IEEE Intelligent Systems, and was the program co-chair of HLT-NAACL '03 and SIGIR '99.
www.sims.berkeley.edu /~hearst   (506 words)

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