USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

[SOURCES]
What was the name of Pulitzer’s newspaper which he ran in New York?

(A) New York Daily

(B) New York Times

(C) ** New York World

(D) New York Day

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Such intense competition for readers led the two publishers to embrace “yellow journalism, ” and they competed over which evening paper would be the most strident, shrill, and loose with the facts. In 1898 Pulitzer hired Charles E. Chapin to run the Evening World .

Concept note-2: -Pulitzer’s Cellar With the help of Kathering and a few well-connected friends, the newsies sneak into Pulitzer’s cellar to print their paper called The Newsies’ Banner (Once and For All).

Concept note-3: -Joseph Pulitzer (/ˈpʊlɪtsər/ PUUL-it-sər; born Pulitzer József, Hungarian: [ˈpulit͡sɛr ˈjoːʒɛf]; April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World.

Concept note-4: -Public reprobation and his own ill health prompted Pulitzer to shift his newspaper interests to New York City, where he purchased (May 10, 1883) a morning paper, the World, from the financier Jay Gould. He soon turned that paper into the leading journalistic voice of the Democratic Party in the United States.