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  William Randolph Hearst III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Randolph Hearst III (born June 1, 1949) became president of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation in early 2003, and is a grandson of William Randolph Hearst and director of the Hearst Corporation.
In 1995 Hearst was named partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, where he continues to serve today.
Hearst graduated from Harvard University in 1972 with a degree in mathematics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst_III   (219 words)

  
 John Randolph Hearst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
John Randolph Hearst (1910 - 1958) was said by some to have the most executive talent among the sons of William Randolph Hearst,and like his brothers worked for the Hearst Corporation.
He left four children,including John Randolph Hearst Jr.,a company executive and director who today represents this branch of the family among the trustees,and the reclusive William Randolph Hearst II, said by Forbes to be living under an assumed name, perhaps escaping confusion with uncle William Randolph Hearst Jr.
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-John_Randolph_Hearst.html   (465 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - William Randolph Hearst
Hearst was born in San Francisco on April 29, 1863, the son of the American industrialist and politician George Hearst and the philanthropist Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
Hearst was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from New York City in 1903 and 1905.
Meanwhile, Hearst was steadily expanding his journalistic empire until in 1927 he controlled a chain of 25 newspapers published in major cities of the U.S. He developed the International News Service, a press agency.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577497/William_Randolph_Hearst.html   (392 words)

  
 William Randolph Hearst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hearst was believed by many to have initiated the Spanish-American War of 1898 to encourage sales of his newspaper.
Hearst upset the left-wing in America by being a pro-Nazi in the 1930s and a staunch anti-Communist[?] in the 1940s.
Hearst was aware of this film's production and he used all his resources and influence in his attempt to halt it and prevent its release at least partially because he felt it insulted Marion Davies.
www.city-search.org /wi/william-randolph-hearst.html   (1132 words)

  
 Hearst Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holding now include a wide variety of media.
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)

  
 Forbes.com - Magazine Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A generation ago, when William Randolph Hearst was a very old man, he could have gazed munificently from atop his perch in San Simeon, Calif. upon his vast media empire of ink and pulp.
Hearst III forsook the Examiner, resigning as its editor and publisher to pursue a career in new media.
Hearst's timing in leaving publishing, in 1993, probably had something to do with the death of his father, a Pulitizer-prize-winning newspaper reporter, but the road the youngest William took had everything to do with his wealth, position and polymath intelligence.
www.forbes.com /1998/10/01/feat_print.html   (954 words)

  
 Scion of Media Empire Dead From Stroke at 85 / Son of legendary publisher, father of kidnapped heiress
Randolph Apperson Hearst, the billionaire newspaper heir who became known worldwide when his daughter Patricia was kidnapped by a revolutionary group in 1974, died at a New York City hospital today after a massive stroke.
William Randolph Hearst III, who was the San Francisco Examiner's publisher from 1984 to 1994 and today is a venture capitalist, said he thought all his grandfather's sons "understood their father wanted the company to continue.
William Randolph Hearst III said some of his earliest memories of his uncle included the impression of him as a physically daring man who had been a flight instructor during World War II.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/18/MN44120.DTL   (1686 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hearst newspaper heir dies - December 18, 2000
Hearst was the last surviving son of the legendary newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Randolph Hearst was chairman of the family's media empire from 1973 to 1996.
Randolph Hearst, one of five sons of the newspaper mogul caricatured by Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane," began work as a cub reporter covering police, courts and City Hall with the Hearst-owned Call-Bulletin in San Francisco.
edition.cnn.com /2000/US/12/18/obit.hearst.ap   (502 words)

  
 Randolph Hearst, a Hearst, 85
Monday December 18 7:44 PM ET Randolph Hearst, kidnap victim's father, is dead SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Randolph Apperson Hearst, last surviving son of newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst and father of Patricia Hearst, the kidnapped heiress of the 1970s, died Monday of a stroke.
Randolph Hearst, whose publishing riches were built atop a gold, silver and copper fortune, was recently listed by Forbes magazine as No. 150 of the 400 richest people in the country.
William Randolph Hearst, who died in 1951 at the age of 88, did not leave control of the vast Hearst media empire to any one of his five sons but put it under the stewardship of professional managers while Hearst family members received five of the 13 seats on the board of directors.
slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00145.html   (736 words)

  
 3.06: Stop the Presses
Oddly enough, this was the man everyone had come to honor: William Randolph Hearst III, scion of one of America's great newspaper families and heir to its fortune, grandson and namesake of the mogul who built Hearst Castle and inspired Citizen Kane and influenced the character of American media for decades.
It marks a vote of confidence in new media from a man whose family heritage is deeply rooted in the old; the passing of a dynasty from ink and newsprint to pixels and bytes in the short span of two generations.
Hearst didn't interview Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, since they were "so far out" - creating the second generation of PCs when he was still struggling to sell his editors on a story explaining the first generation.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.06/hearst_pr.html   (3533 words)

  
 William Randolph Hearst, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(January 27, 1908 - May 14, 1993) became editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father William Randolph Hearst and won a Pulitzer Prize for his commentaries in 1955.
He was instrumental in restoring some measure of family control to the Hearst Corporation, which under his father's will is (and will continue to be while any grandchild alive at WRH Sr.'s death in 1951 is still living) controlled by a board of thirteen trustees, five from the Hearst family and eight Hearst executives.
Today his branch of the family is represented on the trustees by his son William Randolph Hearst III.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Randolph_Hearst_Jr.   (144 words)

  
 Berkeley Daily Planet
Hearst, who was chairman of the family’s media empire from 1973 to 1996, stayed largely out of the public eye except for the extraordinary time when his daughter, Patricia, was kidnapped by the revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974.
Randolph Hearst, one of five sons of the legendary newspaper founder caricatured by Orson Welles in “Citizen Kane,” began work as a cub reporter covering police, courts and City Hall with the Hearst-owned Call-Bulletin in San Francisco.
And Randolph Hearst didn’t mind the arrangement, he said, because the corporation did quite well, growing to 27 TV stations, 16 magazines, 12 daily newspapers and several cable enterprises as well as huge real estate holdings.
www.berkeleydaily.org /article.cfm?archiveDate=12-19-00&storyID=2727   (927 words)

  
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Hearst, a grandson of William Randolph Hearst, is a director of The Hearst Corporation and a trustee of the Hearst Family Trust established under the terms of the will of William Randolph Hearst.
Hearst has been actively engaged in the charitable activities and programs of The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, an independent private philanthropy that operates separately from The Hearst Corporation.
He is a vice president, a director and a member of the investment committees of both The William Randolph Hearst Foundation and The Hearst Foundation, Inc.; the two foundations are administered collectively as The Hearst Foundations, although they are distinct legal entities.
www.hearstcorp.com /news/press_010803.html   (477 words)

  
 Press Baron's Progress
We see Richard III as a ''poisonous hunch-back'd toad,'' though he didn't have a hunchback at all, because Shakespeare's intent was to epitomize evil and its inevitable retribution.
The measure of Hearst's triumph is that when he takes over The Examiner in 1887 he has 15,000 readers, and by his middle years he has 20 million or more.
At the end of his examination of all the material, Nasaw confesses that Hearst's confidence in Hitler remains ''baffling.'' The conclusion is symptomatic of the scrupulous honesty that distinguishes this biography of the most powerful publisher America has ever known: Welles got that part right.
partners.nytimes.com /books/00/07/02/reviews/000702.02eva.html   (1312 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)

  
 Hearst Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Patty Hearst Brief summary of the events surrounding the abduction, and the outcome.
Hearst Business Improvement Area Provides information about the history of the BIA, its members, businesses, special events, and board members.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Hearst_Corporation.html   (607 words)

  
 Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William R. Hearst III is a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, a venture capital firm located in Menlo Park, California.
Hearst joined KPCB in January, 1995, and currently serves on the boards of: Akimbo, Applied Minds, Juniper Networks, Oblix, OnFiber, and RGB Networks.
Hearst is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a trustee of: The Hearst Foundation, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, California Academy of Sciences, and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.
www.kpcb.com /team/bio_detail.php?frm_id=8   (131 words)

  
 Scam baiting bei eLexi - das Onlinelexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
William Robert Renshaw (1845 - 1923), was born to an agricultural family in Handforth in the county of Cheshire, England.
William Swainson (October 8, 1789 - December 6, 1855), was an English ornithologist and artist.
William Samuel Paley (Sept. 28, 1901 - Oct. 26, 1990) was an executive who built CBS from a small radio network to the dominant television network in America.
www.elexi.de /en/s/sc/scam_baiting.html   (421 words)

  
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Hearst is the majority owner of a broadcast television company with 28 stations, also headquartered in New York City.
William Randolph Hearst III, a partner of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and a director of The Hearst Corporation, said “Our entire Board is pleased that an executive with the talents and integrity of Vic Ganzi has been so well prepared to succeed Frank Bennack at the top of this diversified media company.
As part of his plan to position Hearst for the future, Bennack named Ganzi as executive vice president in 1997, and elevated him to chief operating officer in 1998, identifying Ganzi as his eventual successor.
www.hearstcorp.com /news/press_120501.html   (1479 words)

  
 RANDOLPH APPERSON HEARST 1915-2000 / Stroke Kills Father of Patty Hearst
Randolph Apperson Hearst, the billionaire newspaper heir who became known worldwide when his daughter Patricia was kidnapped by a revolutionary group in 1974, died in a New York hospital yesterday after a stroke.
When William Randolph Hearst -- the inspiration for the powerful Orson Welles movie "Citizen Kane" -- died in 1951, he did not leave any of his five sons in charge of the media empire he had shaped out of the mining and real estate fortune left to him by his mother, Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
Instead, the 88-year-old Hearst left his vast holdings under the stewardship of professional managers: Hearst family members were given five of the 13 seats on the board of trustees running Hearst Corp. The trusts creating this arrangement are to remain in effect until the death of the last grandchild alive when Hearst died.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/19/MN72131.DTL   (1770 words)

  
 BW Online | July 8, 2002 | Parting the Veil at Hearst
The Hearst CEO is as accountable to the heirs as a chief executive of a public company is to its shareholders.
William Randolph Hearst II and his sisters Deborah Hearst Gay and Joanne Hearst Castro complained they weren't given enough access to financial records or enough say in decision-making.
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)

  
 Class Activities: Timothy White '64 and the Hearst Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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)

  
 Cable World: Hearst's man in San Simeon: William R. Hearst III turned to electrician Jim Seagle when he needed someone ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hearst's man in San Simeon: William R. Hearst III turned to electrician Jim Seagle when he needed someone to run the cable system he built with his own hands and money.
For the residents and hotel owners in the small central California coastal town of San Simeon, William R. Hearst III may be the man who built the local cable operation, but Jim Seagle is the man to call.
Hearst, the grandson of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, hired Seagle, a 66-year-old electrician by trade, some 15 years ago to help manage the tiny San Simeon Community Cable system, which serves about 500 subscribers.
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:81465751&refid=ink_tptd_mag   (236 words)

  
 William Randolph Hearst, Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He was instrumental in restoring some measure family control to the Hearst Corporation which under his father's will is will continue to be while any grandchild at WRH Sr.'s death in 1951 is living) controlled by a board of thirteen five from the Hearst family and eight executives.
When tax laws changed to prevent foundations his father had established from continuing own the corporation he arranged for the trust (with the same trustees) to buy shares and for longtime chief executive Richard Berlin who was going senile to be out to become chairman of the trustees a period.
Today his branch of the family is on the trustees by his son William Randolph Hearst III.
www.freeglossary.com /William_Randolph_Hearst_Jr.   (579 words)

  
 The William Randolph Hearst Foundations
The Hearst Foundation, Inc. was founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1945.
Hearst established the California Charities Foundations, later renamed The William Randolph Hearst Foundation.
William R. Hearst, III, President, William Randolph Hearst Foundation
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 sfweekly.com | | Feature | Hinkle, Hinkle, Little Star (Part II) | 1996-02-14
The excitement was not lost on William Randolph Hearst III, who had just taken over his grandfather's Examiner newspaper and wanted to reinvent the Monarch of the Dailies.
Hearst had his dream team; Hinckle and Thompson were reunited again.
The team was entrusted with keys to a subbasement in the old Hearst building that housed 40-foot stacks of Examiners dating back a century.
www.sfweekly.com /issues/1996-02-14/feature2.html   (739 words)

  
 Salon Media | The San Francisco Examiner, 1887-2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When William Randolph Hearst III unveiled his redesign of the San Francisco Examiner in the late 1980s, he restored the newspaper's 19th century slogan, "Monarch of the Dailies," and plastered it right above the paper's front-page masthead.
If Hearst had simply shut down the Examiner, the newspaper's family and friends could have held their wake and the world would simply move on.
Will Hearst had always talked of his newspaper as one big family -- after all, for him, that's exactly what it was -- and he appeared honestly hurt that his employees viewed the relationship differently.
archive.salon.com /media/feature/2000/03/21/examiner/print.html   (1723 words)

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