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  William Randolph Hearst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hearst died in 1951, aged eighty-eight, at Beverly Hills, California, and is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.
Hearst was reportedly extremely jealous of Davies, who had been involved in an affair with Charlie Chaplin (one of several affairs she would be involved in over the years).
In 1974 Hearst's granddaughter, Patty Hearst, made front pages nationwide when she was kidnapped by an extremist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and was soon after caught on film helping the group to rob banks.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst   (2105 words)

  
 Hearst, William Randolph. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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)

  
 No. 95-2419
Both Hearst and the County are entitled to enforcement of their respective vested rights in the tower easement area and the earth station clearance area as those rights were created in the 1984 agreement.
Hearst has a perpetual, exclusive easement in the tower easement area for the purposes of "maintaining, restoring, and replacing" the antenna tower, its guy wires and anchors, the service building, and the paved service drive and parking area and for the purpose of controlling vegetation within the easement.
Hearst is not challenging the County's past entry onto the leased land and the injunction prohibits actions by Weigel and not the County; therefore, we need not address the propriety of the County's entry onto the land.
www.wisbar.org /res/capp/z1995/95-2419.htm   (4039 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)

  
 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   (358 words)

  
 Hearst Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Patty Hearst Brief summary of the events surrounding the abduction, and the outcome.
Hearst Castle The official site supplies a history of this palatial fantasy castle built 1922-7 by William Randolph Hearst with the aid of architect Julia Morgan.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Hearst_Corporation.html   (607 words)

  
 [Hpn] The Hearst Corporation =?ISO-8859-1?B?uXMgQ0hST05JQ0xFOkNvcnBvcmF0ZSBQcm9w?= ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hearst¹s Journal was soon to employ the same sales-stimulating sensationalism that marked the Examiner, and the continent-spanning Hearst media empire was born.
Soon, Hearst¹s sensationalist editorial policies, with their heavy emphasis on sex, violence and crime, so marked SF¹s Examiner and NY¹s Journal that it was characterized in the newspaper industry as ³yellow journalism,² and became synonymous with Hearst papers.
Hearst, then embroiled in a circulation battle with rival publisher Pulitzer, was so eager to promote America¹s involvement in this war that he reportedly cabled photographer Frederick Remington to advise him ³You supply the pictures and I¹ll supply the war.² This, by the way, was before the USS Maine was blown up in Havana harbor.
projects.is.asu.edu /pipermail/hpn/2002-May/006166.html   (1841 words)

  
 Hearst Corporation
Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspaper s, the company's holding now include a wide variety of media.
Under William Randolph Hearst's will, a common board of thirteen trustees, five family members and eight outsiders, administer the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns (and selects the 21-member board of) the Hearst Corporation.
Hearst Corporation - Diversified communications and media company whose interests include magazine, newspaper, and business publishing, cable networks, radio and television broadcasting, production and distribution, and Internet services.
www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Hearst_Corporation.html   (354 words)

  
 Business Wire: Randolph A. Hearst, Former Hearst Corporation C... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Randolph Apperson Hearst, former chairman of The Hearst Corporation, President of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and sole surviving son of media pioneer William Randolph Hearst, died today at New York Presbyterian Hospital of a massive stroke.
Hearst, the son of William Randolph and Millicent Willson Hearst, was born in New York City on December 2, 1915.
Hearst was chairman of the board of The Hearst Corporation, one of the nation's largest diversified communications companies.
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:68183000&refid=ip_almanac_hf   (997 words)

  
 Hearst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hearst Corporation – a large, privately-held media conglomerate
Hearst, Ontario – a town in Northern Ontario
William Randolph Hearst, the founder of the Hearst Corporation
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hearst   (106 words)

  
 Schwarzenegger.com - News - Up-To-The-Minute
The Hearst Corporation, American Land Conservancy and California Rangeland Trust have partnered with the state to preserve 128 square miles of pristine rangeland that includes 18 miles of spectacular coastline along scenic Highway One.
The partnership between the state and Hearst was thoroughly reviewed in a series of public meetings around the state, and hundreds of pages of legal documents detailing the plan were made public in the unprecedented display of openness before any votes were taken by state agencies.
The Hearst Ranch began with the first purchase of land by George Hearst in 1865 and is the largest privately owned working cattle ranch on the California coast.
www.schwarzenegger.com /en/news/uptotheminute/news_upto_HearstRanch.asp?sec=news&subsec=uptotheminute   (832 words)

  
 Hearst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
This activity reached its zenith after several years of articles concerning the situation in Cuba, Hearst ran a series of articles blaming the Spanish for the sinking of the MAINE with a mine.
Hearst was interested in politics, and elected twice to the U.S. House of Representatives.
www.spanamwar.com /Hearst.htm   (1014 words)

  
 Full Text Of Judge Walker's Ruling   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Intervenor-defendant ExIn Corporation is a California limited liability corporation formed by members of the Fang family, including Florence Fang and her son Ted Fang, for the purpose of acquiring certain assets associated with the Examiner.
Hearst officials were of the view that, irrespective of the strength of Hearst's legal position, the mayor and other local political figures could at the very least significantly delay the Chronicle acquisition and perhaps derail the deal altogether.
Hearst decided that given Mayor Brown's earlier public expressions of concern about Hearst's purchase of the Chronicle, a "sale" of the Examiner was necessary to allow the mayor to save face and that only a "sale" to a buyer favored by the mayor would engender his support for Hearst's acquisition of the Chronicle.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2000/07/27/ruling.DTL   (10236 words)

  
 Top Stories 6/2002: The Hearst Corporation pledges $1 million to fund Journalism chair at The University of Texas at ...
Hearst created the chair as a tribute to Bennack, its outgoing president and chief executive officer who stepped down from that post on May 31.
On June 1, Bennack became chairman of Hearst's executive committee and vice chairman of Hearst's board of directors while continuing to hold other posts within the corporation, the Hearst family trust and the Hearst foundations.
Proceeds from the endowment will support a scholar or professional who is nationally recognized for his or her success in the field of journalism and has produced extensive work and/or research in the field.
www.utexas.edu /supportut/news_pub/ts_hearst.html   (676 words)

  
 Veronis Suhler Stevenson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hearst stated that it is offering for sale all of the assets presently being used to produce and distribute the Examiner, including its printing presses, plant, delivery trucks and other physical assets, together with the ability to employ personnel needed to conduct the business.
Hearst said it is offering a turn-key package of assets sufficient to allow a buyer of the Examiner independently to edit, produce and distribute that newspaper.
Hearst said that it is doing this in response to concerns raised by the Mayor, the City Attorney, and the District Attorney of San Francisco, the California Attorney General's office, and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
www.vss.com /articles/articles_2000/article_182.html   (510 words)

  
 Hearst, William Randolph on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
HEARST, WILLIAM RANDOLPH [Hearst, William Randolph] 1863-1951, American journalist and publisher, b.
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.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/h/hearst-w1.asp   (933 words)

  
 Hearst Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Commission alleged that Hearst violated Section 7A of the Clayton Act when, in its requisite pre-merger filing with the antitrust agencies, it illegally omitted several high-level corporate documents prepared to evaluate the Medi-Span acquisition and its competitive effects.
Hearst was required to provide those documents to the antitrust agencies to help them determine whether a full pre-merger antitrust review of the acquisition was necessary; its failure to submit those documents hindered the ability of the Commission to analyze the competitive effects of the acquisition prior to consummation.
Hearst's conduct was sufficiently egregious to justify the extraordinary remedy of disgorgement" in this case.
www.ftc.gov /opa/2001/12/hearst.htm   (1251 words)

  
 Class Activities: Timothy White '64 and the Hearst Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
That arrangement, which Hearst lawyers said at the trial was the result of political pressures, came after an elaborate lobbying campaign orchestrated by the Fangs to get control of the Examiner, which they intend to shrink to a much smaller paper.
Meanwhile, as Hearst moves forward to combine the Examiner's staff of 217 reporters and editors with the Chronicle's 378 editorial employees, critics are wondering if the first heads to roll shouldn't come at the top.
Bennack is highly regarded among the Hearst heirs who control its stock, s well as among the nonfamily directors who comprise the majority of the board.
www2.aya.yale.edu /classes/yc1964/activities/white.htm   (812 words)

  
 Sale of the San Francisco Chronicle - 1999
The announcement was made jointly by Frank A. Bennack, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of The Hearst Corporation, and John B. Sias, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Chronicle Publishing Company.
Hearst also announced that it has engaged an investment banker, Veronis, Suhler and Associates Inc. of New York City, to seek a buyer for the San Francisco Examiner, a six-day afternoon newspaper owned by Hearst.
Hearst said that this investment in the San Francisco Chronicle and "SF Gate" is both an affirmation of its belief in the City of San Francisco and a continuing opportunity to be of service to the Bay Area community.
www.sfmuseum.org /hist10/chronsale.html   (789 words)

  
 Hearst Corporate Site
“And Hearst Newspapers’ reporters and editors from around the country responded, both in print and online, in words and in pictures, in ways that served as a reminder of the powerful force newspapers can be in their communities during times of trouble.
Perhaps the year’s most moving series was written by Hearst Newspapers Fellow Alicia Parlette, describing her ongoing battle with cancer at the age of 23 in the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle.
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   (1280 words)

  
 Hearst Ranch Conservation Project
In December of 2002, The American Land Conservancy (ALC) announced a basic framework negotiated between the American Land Conservancy and the Hearst Corporation.
The Hearst Ranch conservation project - due to its size, the importance of its resources, its value to the community, and the benefits to the public - is the most important conservation project in the nation.
It is not associated with the Hearst Corporation or the American Land Conservancy (ALC).
www.hearstranchconservation.org   (780 words)

  
 Hearst Group: Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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)

  
 WWW.TABLETNEWSPAPER.COM--POLITICS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Both Blethen and the Hearst Corporation assume, not without cause, that the FCC is about to usher in a new era of media industry consolidation - and that only one Seattle paper is destined to survive.
Behind the scenes, the Hearst Corporation has been anything but silent on the issue, lobbying the FCC repeatedly since 1998 to toss out the rule prohibiting local newspaper-broadcast cross ownership.
The most curious thing about the P-I editorial was how unsubstantial it was, offering none of Hearst's actual arguments favoring consolidation, instead simply complaining that discussion of the issue had been too focused on the "notion that democracy is at risk." For the Hearst Corporation, democracy and public debate are simply irrelevant to this issue.
www.tabletnewspaper.com /politics/68_mediapolitics.html   (669 words)

  
 Memorial State Beach
In 1953 the Hearst Corporation donated the area comprising the William Randolph Hearst Memorial State Beach to San Luis Obispo County in memory of William Randolph Hearst.
In 1970 the Department of Parks and Recreation transferred ownership of the property and the pier to the State of California for operation by the Department of Parks and Recreation to complement the operation of the adjacent Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument.
Under the stewardship of the California State Parks, the park was classified as a State Beach and renamed William Randolph Hearst Memorial State Beach in 1971.
www.hearstcastle.org /visitors_center/state_beach.asp   (387 words)

  
 The Hearst Corporation
Under the terms of the proposed settlement, Hearst would divest the Medi-Span business to Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Inc. (d/b/a Facts and Comparisons), a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer, n.v., to disgorge $19 million in profits and to comply with certain other obligations.
The Hearst Corporation and The Hearst Trust are headquartered in New York City, and First DataBank, Inc. is headquartered in San Bruno, California.
Facts and Comparisons, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is an unincorporated division of Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Inc., which is a Delaware corporation and a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer, n.v., a Dutch corporation.
www.ftc.gov /opa/2001/11/hearst.htm   (499 words)

  
 California Resources Agency - The Hearst Ranch Conservation Plan: California Vision...California Values
This is five-year effort by the Hearst Corporation, conservationists, environmentalists, agricultural interests, the local community, and the State of California.
This is a culmination of an extremely compatible private/public relationship that began a half century ago, when the Hearst Corporation gave Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, to the State as a charitable gift.
Long before the concept of "Public/Private Partnership" was introduced in California, the Hearst Corporation transferred the magnificent William Randolph Hearst Castle property to the State of California for all to experience and enjoy.
resources.ca.gov /hearst_ranch.html   (535 words)

  
 ePlus Procurement Software Selected by The Hearst Corporation - ePlus inc.
The implementation of an enterprise-wide procurement system, will enable Hearst to better track corporate disbursements, reduce processing costs, and aid their ability to leverage their purchasing dollars.
These capabilities will help Hearst to cultivate more profitable vendor relationships and gain greater economies of scale--essential elements of an enterprise cost management strategy.
The Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com) is one of the nation's largest diversified communications companies.
www.eplus.com /web/BaseRenderer.aspx?ItemId=874   (604 words)

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