Joseph Pulitzer

Nellie Bly, was once just an American woman with a dream to pursue a career in journalism, until opportunity came knocking at her door. While trying to come up with new ideas for her groundbreaking news column, Bly found herself wondering if she could travel the world in less than eighty days. Traveling the entire globe in under eighty days was no small feat, but it was also difficult to even get the trip approved by her editors for a number of reasons. After months of being denied because of her gender and lack of funds, Bly finally got the opportunity of her lifetime. The day after getting the approval, Bly set off on her epic journey to scavenge the globe. Luckily she detailed her entire journey in her book, Around the World in Seventy-Two…

In 1899, the newsboys of New York rose up against the high prices for 100 papers from the Pulitzer’s paper, “The World” and Hearst’s “The Journal”. Many years later, the musical Newsies came out. During the Spanish-American War the price of papers rose from 50 cents to 60 cents per 100 papers (Li, Extra, Extra, read all about the newsboys strike of 1899). What made them strike was when the rest of the newspaper prices went back down to 50 cents; Pulitzers and Hearst’s did not. In the musical it…

Joseph Campbell is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C and has a Ph.D. in mass communication. He has also received the Society of Professional Journalists’ national award. His books about yellow journalism are mainly to “debunk” the myths that are historically widely believed by most historians and students. These books are very valuable to those who study journalism because of their ability to go against the popular notion and question the myths…

He worked as a correspondent for Joseph Pulitzer's New York newspaper, The World. He crossed the Spanish lines to reach the Cuban insurgents, something that Davis failed to do. On his way from the camps of the insurgents to the coastal town of Tuna de Zaza, Scovel was arrested because of his time spent with the insurgents. He was traveling to Tuna de Zaza send dispatches to The World (Campbell, 143). Because of Scovel’s connection he was living in very good conditions while imprisoned, he had…

Hello and welcome to Columbia University’s’ Pulitzer Prize Awards Night. Every year we gather here to acknowledge and celebrate America’s excellence in Journalism and Arts. The Pulitzer Prize has been around since 1917 and was founded by Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaper publisher with a keen eye for politics and journalism. Through his legacy and grant to Columbia University, Pulitzer was able to start up this internationally admired honour given annually to the best of the best. With twenty-one…

Old Man and the Sea Research Assignment The Pulitzer Prize is an award which notes distinguished writers in any field of literature. A writer can follow in any subject, whether it be journalistic, fictional, poetic, or any other of the many sub-genres of writing, and still be able to apply for the award. The history behind this award of academia involves a man (surprisingly) named Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer was well-regarded in the late 19th century for his journalistic jousting “against…

It was first established in 1917,which is also when the first award was given. It began when “Joseph Pulitzer, known as one of the greatest newspaper publishers in U.S. history, established the award as part of his will” ("Pulitzer Prizes Fast Facts."). There are currently twenty-one categories. Authors from online newspapers are not allowed to enter. However, online presentations are allowed. To win the Pulitzer Prize, one’s paper is preferably about American life, published the previous year…

The book I will be analyzing is, Kopet: A Documentary Narrative of Chief Joseph’s Last Year’s by M. Gidley. It was published in 1981 in Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This book is split up into three different sections: 1. Starting Out from the Meany Papers An introduction 2. Chief Joseph of the Nez Peres A chronology 3. White Witnesses to Chief Joseph’s End A Narrative This book discusses the last few years of Chief Joseph’s life, the white people…

Special passports were imposed in December of 1932, and any person who opposed to the Holodomor was known as a “kulak.” Independent farmers were known as kulaks if they resisted collectivization. Furthermore, kulaks didn’t want collectivization of their farms because it would mean having to share their prosperity. Symbolization wasn’t big in the Holodomor. Ukrainian peasants were easily identified, because of where they lived. In the end, symbolization wasn’t needed for the USSR genocide.…

Out, Out— is a narrative poem published in 1916 by Robert Frost, a winner of several Pulitzer awards and a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University. The characters in the poem include the protagonist, a young boy, his sister, and their assumable parents. The initial lines of the poem are quite pleasant as they evoke the aural, visual, and olfactory senses, but the poem takes a sharp turn as it then presents readers with intense tactile imagery and a cold ending. Why would Robert…