Yellow Journalism And The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution is known for being a time for innovation and invention. In fact, many of the things create during that era are still used today. Yellow journalism, which is still widely used today, is a great example of this. Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-born immigrant, was a large part of the creation of yellow journalism, which led him to be known for starting the rise of journalism as it is recognized today.
After being born in Mako, Hungary and growing up in Budapest, Pulitzer decided at the age of 17 to join the military. Because he had problems with blindness and illness in general, Austria, France, and Britain all denied him. Fortunately, while he was in Germany, he met up with a US recruiter, and in 1864 he moved to Boston.

Within the newspaper, he started expressing an interest in politics, and he wrote about his opposition of Ulysses S. Grant and Radical Republicans. Because of his interest in politics, he soon became the Secretary of the Liberal Republicans and was then elected into the Missouri House of Representatives despite being only 22 and therefore not technically eligible for office. He continued his political career by joining a board of three police commissioners, becoming the Secretary for the Liberal Republican Convention in 1872, and eventually joining the Democratic Party which he stayed faithful to until the end of his life. After all that, Pulitzer started his newspaper empire by buying the Westliche Post from Schurz, who worked as a senator at the time. After accumulating enough money to travel to Europe, Pulitzer sold the newspaper back to its original owners. After his return from Europe, he struggled to find a steady job, but he eventually bought another bankrupt German newspaper and then sold it to the St. Louis Daily Globe for $20,000. He then started studying law, and got involved in public service. By this point, he had perfected his English and became a highly respected public speaker and journalist for his clear and interesting writing style. After getting married and studying, he abandoned law for journalism and bought the St. Louis Dispatch, which was in ruins at the time. He merged the Dispatch with the Post to get an AP membership. He soon began publicly attacking corrupt politicians and government officials. He later stated that although the paper would be Democratic, it would not serve the party, but the people. The paper flourished, and Pulitzer doubled the circulation of the two original newspapers combined. He was elected to congress in 1885, but by April of 1886, he