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Birth of Joseph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer born in Mako Hungary as the son of a wealthy grain merchant of the jewish orign and a german mother who was a Roman Catholic Devout. -
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life of Joseph Pulitzer
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Joseph Pulitzer moves to The United States Of America
He lived in St. Louis. He worked as a mule tender, waiter and hack driver before studying English at the Mercantile Library. -
Pulitzer was recruited by Carl Schurz for his German-language
In 1868 Pulitzer was recruited by Carl Schurz for his German-language daily, the Westliche Post. -
Pulitzer was elected to the Missouri State Assembly
In 1872 he, like many Radical Republicans, supported Horace Greeley against Ulysses S. Grant, the official Republican candidate. -
Pulitzer was able to purchase the St. Louis Post for $3,000
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Pulitzer was able to buy the St. Louis Dispatch for $2,700
He combined the two newspapers and launched crusades against government corruption, lotteries, gambling, and tax fraud. -
Pulitzer purchases the New York World for $346,000
He was now very wealth because the privious news papers had been such a succsess. The newspaper, which had been losing $40,000 a year, was turned into a journal that concentrated on human-interest stories, scandal and sensational material. -
Pulitzer recruited Richard F. Outcault
Richard F. Outcault worked as one of Pulitzer's artists on the New York World. -
Pulitzer recruited Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly worked for Pulitzer by writting Investigative Reporting Pieces. One time Bly had to feign insanity to enter the insane asylum on Blackwell's Island. Most of the time her peices were about labour and housing conditions, and poverty. -
Pulitzer supports Nellie Bly in her record breaking trip around the world
Pulitzer agreed and held a competition which involved guessing the time it would take Bly to circle the globe. Over 1,000,000 people entered the contest and when she arrived back in New York she was met by a massive crowd to see her break the record in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds. -
Pulitzer withdrew from the editorship of the New York World
He Was considered Blind and therefore Pulitzer had to retire from his life in the news room. -
Pulitzer continued to promote investigative reporting
the New York World exposed a fraudulent payment of $40 million by the United States to the French Panama Canal Company. The federal government indicted Pulitzer for criminally libeling President Theodore Roosevelt and the banker John Pierpont Morgan.
