William Hearst Research Paper

William Hearst, born in San Francisco, was raised by wealthy parents who had given him the best education in the country; he attended private schools all throughout his life, sent to Europe on tour, and when it came for his higher education, Hearst attended Harvard college. In college he started his love for crude and sensationalist writing, with his Harvard lampoon newspaper. Hearst, all throughout college was inspired by the New York World and its brilliant publisher, Joseph Pulitzer. So, when opportunity struck and Hearst’s multimillion dollar father had bought a failing paper, the San Francisco Examiner, Hearst invested all his power to create the best paper. Hearst hired the most incredible and up in coming writers of the century, such as Mark

Hearst wrote his paper with a sensationalist style of writing, big bolded headlines to catch the reader’s attention, exaggerated stories, etc. and with the help of that his paper flourished. (https://www.biography.com/people/william-randolph-hearst-9332973) Hearst was getting so popular, he was expanding so much that his once idol, Joseph Pulitzer, was now his rival. This competition was fierce, he bought one of Pulitzers former papers and later started to publish the Evening Journal. With the same style as his Examiner, Hearst continued to use sensationalism and exaggeration in his new publications. Hearst continued to drop the prices of his papers making him the cheapest paper. Hearst offered higher pay to his workers and gave them better job positions, he made sure he was the best newspaper and that no one would be able to match him, especially his huge rival Pulitzer. When Pulitzer fought back at Hearst, Hearst hit him hard with stealing Pulitzers World workers and hiring them for his own paper. Hearst started to become more of a political newspaper, where he took the side of republican, but his paper was democrat. Hearst and his yellow journalistic writing style was