Pulitzer went on to do great things in his new city. He became a congressman from New York in Finding it difficult to run the World and be in Washington, D. Pulitzer built a sixteen-story building for the World in , the tallest building in New York City at the time.
He continued to fight crime and criticize the rich with his paper. Some of his proudest moments include breaking up Standard Oil in and making campaign contributions public. The World was known for its investigative journalism. Her investigative reporting and publicity stunts were hugely popular with readers. Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Cochran in and worked as an investigative reporter for Joseph Pulitzer during the s and s.
She was a pioneer for women in the field of journalism and earned a reputation for investigating social institutions and breaking the time record for traveling around the world. She died in After several years of trying to outdo Hearst, Pulitzer finally realized his folly and again tried to report only the facts.
During his rivalry with Hearst, Pulitzer set aside his commitment to reporting the facts in order to sell more papers. He was the first comic character in America to become so popular he increased the sale of the newspapers in which he appeared.
Hearst offered Outcault more money to work for his newspapers, and the cartoonist left the World. Blind and practically an invalid in his later years, Pulitzer required the help of several people to get through the day. He could not get out a lot because of his nervous condition, but his curiosity and desire to learn never stopped, and he continued to control and influence the editorial page of his newspapers. His secretaries read to him every day and were required to provide him with lively conversation.
Pulitzer died of heart failure aboard his yacht on October 29, , at the age of He is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Louis Post-Dispatch after his death. While the World folded in , the Post-Dispatch continues to be published, although it is no longer run by a member of the Pulitzer family.
Pulitzer spent his life fighting corrupt government, social evils, and most of all, the extremely wealthy. He never backed down from the truth despite both physical and legal threats from those he exposed. Although rich himself, he paid his employees well and was a generous man. Today, the school oversees the Pulitzer Prize, an award given to those who excel in journalism, literature, and music.
The prize began with a donation from Pulitzer and was first awarded in The following is a selected list of books, articles, and manuscripts about Joseph Pulitzer in the research centers of The State Historical Society of Missouri.
The Society is not responsible for the content of the following websites:. He worked on the paper from morning to night. Determined to make it appealing to the public, he published investigative articles and editorials that assailed government corruption, wealthy tax-dodgers, and gamblers. The approach was effective, and the paper prospered with circulation reaching new heights.
He promised to use the paper to expose fraud, fight all public evils and abuses, and battle for the people with sincerity. He used one of his artists, Richard F. Outcault, to create cartoons depicting life in the slums. They were extremely popular with the readers; sales reached ,, making it the largest-circulating newspaper in the country. Pulitzer worked with Nellie Bly , who pioneered investigative reporting by writing articles about poverty, housing, and labor conditions in New York City.
He is known for helping to keep the Statue of Liberty in New York, and for the Pulitzer Prizes that were established in his name and awarded for excellence in journalism, photography, literature, history, drama, music, and poetry.
He was born in Hungary on April 10 th , He was 17 when he arrived in Boston, and quickly made his way to New York where he enlisted. After the Civil War he studied English and got a job as a journalist. At 25 he became a publisher and contributed greatly to the development of the newspaper in the United States.
Joseph was 11 when his father died. His mother remarried a businessman. Joseph Pulitzer was educated in Budapest in private schools. Thin, with poor vision and weak lungs, he tried to enlist in the army in Europe but was turned down. In he left Hungary for the United States and became a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War —65 , when Northern and Southern American states fought mainly over the issue of slavery.
After the war, the tall, red-bearded youth had no job and settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where there was a large German population. Pulitzer worked as a waiter, taxi driver, and a caretaker of mules before getting a job as a reporter on a newspaper called the Westliche Post. A short time after joining the Post, Pulitzer was nominated his name was put forward for consideration for the state legislature by the Republican Party.
His campaign was considered a long shot because he was nominated in a Democratic district. Pulitzer, however, ran seriously and won. In the legislature he fought graft illegal gain and corruption improper conduct by elected officials. In one wild dispute he shot a man in the leg for saying that he had written an untrue story in the newspaper.
Pulitzer escaped punishment with a fine that his friends paid. Joseph Pulitzer. Reproduced by permission of Archive Photos, Inc. Pulitzer was hard-working and ambitious. He bought the St. Louis Post for about three thousand dollars in
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