JOSEPH PULITZER

Pulitzer was born April 10, 1847 in Mako Hungary.
He emigrated to the United States in 1864 as a recruit for the Union Army in the American Civil War.

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• Went to St. Louis
• German language daily newspaper
• Then took control of Staats-Zeitung
• 4 years later the St. Louis Dispatch
• After editor was shot pulitzer moved to New York

Joseph Pulitzer was a leader in the techniques of sensationalism in St. Louis and especially with the New York World. He then went on to create the SanFrancisco examiner.

In his newspapers Pulitzer combined political corruption and crusading investigative reporting with publicity stunts, and self-advertising. He made his newspaper the voice of the U.S. Democratic Party.

In his will Pulitzer put the Columbia University School of Journalism and established the Pulitzer Prizes, awarded annually since 1917.