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  The Pulitzer Prizes -- History of the Pulitzer Prizes
Pulitzer was the first to call for the training of journalists at the university level in a school of journalism.
Joseph Pulitzer was born in Mako, Hungary on April 10, 1847, the son of a wealthy grain merchant of Magyar-Jewish origin and a German mother who was a devout Roman Catholic.
Pulitzer's health was fractured further during this ordeal and in 1890, at the age of 43, he withdrew from the editorship of The World and never returned to its newsroom.
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  Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847-October 29, 1911), born in Budapest, was an American newspaper man and journalist.
Pulitzer immigrated to the United States in 1864, where he served in the American Civil War.
Joseph Pulitzer died aboard his yacht in the harbor of Charleston, North Carolina[?] in 1911.
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 Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911), born in Budapest, was an American newspaper man and journalist.
Pulitzer left the university $2 million in his will, which led to the creation in 1912 of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, but by then the first school of journalism had been created at the University of Missouri.
In 1917, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded, in accordance to Pulitzer's wishes, and the Graduate School of Journalism remains the most prestigious in the nation.
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Joseph Pulitzer (April 18, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism.
Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, Pulitzer (IPA pronunciation:) sought a military career, but was turned down by the Austrian army for frail health and poor eyesight.
Joseph Pulitzer died aboard his yacht in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina in 1911.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Joseph Pulitzer   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Pulitzer Prize, set up in 1883, is awarded from a fund set up in Pulitzer's will.
A wealthy man by 1883, Pulitzer purchased the New York World, a newspaper that had been losing $40,000 a year, for $346,000 from Jay Gould.
Pulitzer left the university $2 million in his will, which led to the creation of a school in 1912, but by then the first school of journalism had been created at the University of Missouri.
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 Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer collected the bounty by enlisting for a year in the Lincoln Cavalry, which suited him since there were many Germans in the unit.
Pulitzer's health was fractured further during this ordeal and in 1890, at the age of 43, he withdrew from the editorship of The World and never returned to its newsroom.
In 1912, one year after Pulitzer's death aboard his yacht, the Columbia School of Journalism was founded, and the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917 under the supervision of the advisory board to which he had entrusted his mandate.
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 CHAPTER II - MEETING JOSEPH PULITZER
Joseph Pulitzer was born in the village of Mako, near Budapest in Hungary, on April 10, 1847.
Joseph Pulitzer, as I knew him twenty-four years after he had been driven from active life by the sudden and final collapse of his health, was a man who could be judged by no common standards, for his feelings, his temper, and his point of view had been warped by years of suffering.
Pulitzer's good graces, it was as necessary to avoid being too funny as it was to avoid being too dull, for, while the latter fault hurt his intellectual sensitiveness, the former involved, through the excessive laughter it produced, a degree of involuntary exertion which, in his disordered physical condition, caused him acute pain.
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 Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer collected the bounty by enlisting for a year in the Lincoln Cavalry, which suited him since there were many Germans in the unit.
Pulitzer would have been pleased to know that in the conduct of the Pulitzer Prize system which he later established, more awards in journalism would go to exposure of corruption than to any other subject.
Pulitzer's health was fractured further during this ordeal and in 1890, at the age of 43, he withdrew from the editorship of The World and never returned to its newsroom.
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 Joseph Pulitzer - MSN Encarta
Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), American journalist, whose will provided for the establishment of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Pulitzer's main newspaper publishing rival in New York was William Randolph Hearst, who owned the New York Morning Journal.
Competition between the Pulitzer and Hearst papers was especially fierce in the coverage of the political tensions before and during the Spanish-American War (1898), and the sensational journalistic techniques used during this time to attract readers were dubbed yellow journalism.
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 Joseph Pulitzer - Wikinfo
Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 - October 29, 1911), born in Budapest, was an American newspaper man and journalist.
Pulitzer left the university $2 million in his will, which led to the creation in 1912 of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, but by then the first school of journalism had been created at the University of Missouri.
In 1917, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded, in accordance to Pulitzer's wishes, and the Graduate School of Journalism remains the most prestigious in the nation.
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 Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer saw himself as a crusader on the side of people and a spokesman for democracy.
Pulitzer was the founder of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Joseph Pulitzer was born in Makó, Hungary, as the eldest son of Hungarian Jews.
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 Pulitzer and Lee: Overview
Joseph Pulitzer's descendants at that time had voting control of the group through a class of super-voting stock restricted to family members.
Like Scripps, the Pulitzer group at the time of the merger was still controlled by the founder's family but was considerably smaller, in contrast to that of Hearst.
Pulitzer was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1885 but by 1890 was showing signs of overwork, with deteriorating eyesight and disagreement about his sanity and treatment of employees.
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 Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer was born on April 10, 1847 in Makó;, Hungary.
This new newspaper, which Pulitzer often used with a very political and corruption-exposing edge, gained a great amount of success under his leadership, and earned him a small fortune in the years that followed.
Joseph Pulitzer died aboard his yacht in the harbor of Charleston, North Carolina on October 29, 1911.
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 Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer, the son of a grain dealer, was born in Makdo, near Budapest, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in April 1847.
Pulitzer also promised to use the paper to "expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses, and to battle for the people with earnest sincerity".
Pulitzer also used the New York World to advocate a ten-point program of reform: tax luxuries, tax inheritances; tax large incomes; tax monopolies; tax the privileged corporations; institute a tariff for revenue; reform the civil service; punish corrupt office holders; punish vote buying; punish employers who coerce their employees in elections.
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 Variety.com - Joseph Pulitzer Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Pulitzer, who replaced the "III" with a "Jr." after his name, also served from 1955-86 as chairman of the board of the Pulitzer Prizes, established by his grandfather, the original Joseph Pulitzer.
"Joseph Pulitzer cast a long shadow over St. Louis journalism and the arts for half a century," said his half-brother, Michael E. Pulitzer, president and chief executive of Pulitzer Publishing.
Pulitzer relinquished his newspaper titles in 1986 to devote full time to the management of what had by then become a publicly traded company.
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 AllRefer.com - Joseph Pulitzer (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Pulitzer's aggressive methods of building up this paper, its Sunday issue, and the Evening World (started 1887) included the use of illustrations, news stunts, crusades against corruption, and cartoons, as well as aggressive news coverage.
In 1931, Pulitzer's sons, Ralph (1879–1939) and Joseph (1885–1955), sold the New York papers to the Scripps-Howard chain, and the Evening World was merged with the New York Telegram.
The Post-Dispatch, under his son Joseph and then under his grandson Joseph Pulitzer (1913–93), was cited repeatedly for outstanding journalism and public service.
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 no ordinary joe: a life of joseph pulitzer III by daniel pfaff
Joseph Pulitzer III (1913–1993) was editor and publisher of the Post-Dispatch, as were his father and grandfather before him.
When Pulitzer died in 1993, he had managed to sustain the Post-Dispatch’s distinguished tradition of editorial independence, and he left behind a company that was substantially larger and more competitive than when he took charge thirty-eight years before.
As much as Pulitzer was known for his affiliation with the Post-Dispatch, he was also known for his collection of contemporary art, regarded as one of the largest and finest in the world.
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 Joseph Pulitzer Biography (Publisher) — FamilyEducation.com
Joseph Pulitzer was the 19th-century journalist and newspaper publisher whose will established the Pulitzer Prizes "for the encouragement of public service, public morals, American literature and the advancement of education." Pulitzer immigrated to the United States as a young man in 1864 and served in the 1st New York Cavalry during the Civil War.
Pulitzer served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1885-1886)...
Joseph PULITZER - PULITZER, Joseph (1847—1911) PULITZER, Joseph, a Representative from New York; born in Makdo,...
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 no ordinary joe: a life of joseph pulitzer III by daniel pfaff
Joseph Pulitzer III (1913–1993) was editor and publisher of the Post-Dispatch, as were his father and grandfather before him.
When Pulitzer died in 1993, he had managed to sustain the Post-Dispatch’s distinguished tradition of editorial independence, and he left behind a company that was substantially larger and more competitive than when he took charge thirty-eight years before.
As much as Pulitzer was known for his affiliation with the Post-Dispatch, he was also known for his collection of contemporary art, regarded as one of the largest and finest in the world.
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 Tribute to Joseph Pulitzer - Associated Content   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Joseph Pulitzer was born on April 10, 1847 in Hungary.
Joseph Pulitzer is quoted as saying, "more crime, immorality and "rascality" is prevented by the fear of exposure in the newspapers than by all the laws, morals and statutes ever devised."
Pulitzer is honored as being an individual who elevated the craft of writing daily news into a noble profession.
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 Joseph Pulitzer Biography and Summary
Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), Hungarian-born editor and publisher, was instrumental in developing yellow journalism in the United States.
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-born American journalist and innovative newspaper publisher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but he is perhaps best known as the founder of the Pulitzer Prize.
Joseph "Joe" Pulitzer(April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism.
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 AmericanHeritage.com / Joseph Pulitzer and his most “indegoddampendent” editor
Pulitzer accomplished this with a bewildering mixture of political and general news, crime reports, crusades, stunts, human-interest stories in which women in various forms of distress and disarray predominated, plenty of illustrations of these and other matters of interest, cartoons, and editorials that thundered at the plutocrats and exalted democracy.
Pulitzer had no use for states’ rights arguments, but he wanted the federal government to be guided by Congress and the courts rather than by a strong executive branch.
Pulitzer shot back that his orders were to be obeyed, a boat was lowered, and Cobb was duly deposited on the lonely shore.
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 Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer was an American journalist and publisher who created, along with William Randolph Hearst, a new and controversial kind of journalism.
Pulitzer was born in Mako, Hungary, on April 10, 1847.
Pulitzer arrived in the United States in 1864, and settled in St.
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American journalist and publisher, founder of the Pulitzer Prizes and along with William Randolph Hearst the creator of a new and controversial type of journalism.
Joseph Pulitzer was born in Budapest (in some sources Makó), Hungary.
In the 1890s Pulitzer had a circulation war with William Randolp Hearst, and his newspapers were accused of "yellow journal" practices.
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 Joseph Pulitzer - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for...
Home of The Pulitzer Prizes at the Columbia University School of Journalism, in New York City.
Joseph Pulitzer and The Pulitzer Prizes by Seymour Topping former...
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 Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer joined the Republican Party and was elected to the Missouri State Assembly.
Pulitzer also promised to use the paper to "expose all fraud and sham, fight all public evils and abuses, and to battle for the people with earnest sincerity".
In 1890 Pulitzer withdrew from the editorship of the
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 CJR - Joseph Pulitzer Nods and Smiles, by Joan Konner
The Pulitzer family underwrote the refurbishment of the historic World Room, the assembly room in which every student who has passed through the school started and ended the journey.
Here are the remarks by grandson Michael Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, at the rededication of the Joseph Pulitzer World Room in May 1997.
One member of the Rothschild banking family watched my grandfather at work and said, "If Joseph Pulitzer had chosen to be a banker, he would have been one of the greatest." Instead, he became one of the world's greatest journalists.
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