WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST 1863 1951 JOURNALIST AND NEWSPAPER OWNER HEARST WILLIAM RANDOLPH 1863 1951 COMMUNICATIONS AMERICAN CULTURE WILLIAM HEARST WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST WAS BORN IN SAN FRANCISCO TO WEALTHY GOLD MINE OWNER AND SENATOR GEORGE HEARST AFTER BEING EXPELLED FROM HARVARD IN 1885 WILLIAM HEARST WENT TO WORK FOR JOSEPH PULITZER'S PAPER THE NEW YORK WORLD IN 1887 HEARST TOOK OVER HIS FATHER'S PAPER THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER AND MADE IT PROFITABLE IN TWO YEARS IN 1895 HE RETURNED TO NEW YORK AND BOUGHT THE NEW YORK MORNING JOURNAL HE CHALLENGED PULITZER'S PAPER BY LOWERING HIS PRICE AND WRITING SENSATIONAL OFTEN EXAGGERATED STORIES ABOUT CRIME AND POLITICS THIS REPORTING BECAME KNOWN AS YELLOW JOURNALISM BECAUSE OF THE YELLOW KID COMIC STRIP THAT THE TWO PAPERS FOUGHT TO CARRY HEARST'S EMPIRE CONTINUED TO GROW WITH PAPERS IN CHICAGO BOSTON AND LOS ANGELES AND MAGAZINES SUCH AS COSMOPOLITAN AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING HEARST WAS ELECTED TO TWO TERMS IN THE U.S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SERVED FROM 1903 TO 1907 HOWEVER HE FAILED TO WIN THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN 1904 HE ALSO LOST THE NEW YORK GOVERNOR'S RACE IN 1906 AND THE NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL ELECTION IN 1909 AT ONE POINT HEARST OWNED 28 NEWSPAPERS AND 18 MAGAZINES DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930S HEARST WAS FORCED TO SELL MANY OF HIS POSSESSIONS AND BUSINESSES BY 1940 HE NO LONGER CONTROLLED HIS EMPIRE
