American newspaper publisher, William Randolph Hearst, built the nation's largest newspaper chain. He was born in San Francisco, to millionaire mining engineer, goldmine owner and U.S. senator (from 1886–91) George Hearst and his wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Phoebe Apperson was the first woman advisor of University of California, Berkeley. She funded many anthropological expeditions and founded the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
William Randolph Hearst dominated journalism for nearly a half century. It began as a small boy, gaining interest while being taught in private schools and on tours of Europe. He would eventually attend Harvard College where the real magic started to happen. He served as an editor for the Harvard Lampoon …show more content…
After accomplishing the San Francisco market with the Examiner, William R. Hearst set his eye on something greater. He wanted to move into more markets and he set his eye on his former idol, now rival, Joseph Pulitzer. William purchased the New York Morning Journal (formerly owned by Pulitzer) in 1895, and a year later began publishing the Evening Journal. There, he also used his strange new tactics of “yellow journalism” to help push the Evening Journal just like he did with the San Francisco …show more content…
Together they had 5 sons. In 1917, William fell in love with another showgirl named Marion Davies. The two of them would maintain their relationship until his death in 1951. They were never married simply because Millicent did not believe in divorce so she never gave one to William.
When Hearst's mother died in 1919, William came into his inheritance. William R. Hearst decided to take up permanent residence on his father's 168,000-acre ranch in southern California. There he spent $37 million on a private castle, (Hearst Castle), put $50 million into New York City real estate, and put another $50 million into his art collection. This was the largest ever assembled by a single individual. (This castle is AMAZING!)
During the 1920s one American in every four read a Hearst newspaper. Hearst owned twenty daily and eleven Sunday papers in thirteen cities, the King Features syndication service, the International News Service, the American Weekly (a syndicated Sunday supplement), International Newsreel, and six magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Harper's
William Randolph Hearst dominated journalism for nearly a half century. It began as a small boy, gaining interest while being taught in private schools and on tours of Europe. He would eventually attend Harvard College where the real magic started to happen. He served as an editor for the Harvard Lampoon …show more content…
After accomplishing the San Francisco market with the Examiner, William R. Hearst set his eye on something greater. He wanted to move into more markets and he set his eye on his former idol, now rival, Joseph Pulitzer. William purchased the New York Morning Journal (formerly owned by Pulitzer) in 1895, and a year later began publishing the Evening Journal. There, he also used his strange new tactics of “yellow journalism” to help push the Evening Journal just like he did with the San Francisco …show more content…
Together they had 5 sons. In 1917, William fell in love with another showgirl named Marion Davies. The two of them would maintain their relationship until his death in 1951. They were never married simply because Millicent did not believe in divorce so she never gave one to William.
When Hearst's mother died in 1919, William came into his inheritance. William R. Hearst decided to take up permanent residence on his father's 168,000-acre ranch in southern California. There he spent $37 million on a private castle, (Hearst Castle), put $50 million into New York City real estate, and put another $50 million into his art collection. This was the largest ever assembled by a single individual. (This castle is AMAZING!)
During the 1920s one American in every four read a Hearst newspaper. Hearst owned twenty daily and eleven Sunday papers in thirteen cities, the King Features syndication service, the International News Service, the American Weekly (a syndicated Sunday supplement), International Newsreel, and six magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Harper's