William Randolph Hearst
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Khazei’s outsider career taught deep political lessons...architecture, mandatory morning chapel, and a silver-plated roster of alumni including J.P. Morgan Jr. and William Randolph Hearst. In the 1970s, many students came from long lines of alumni. But Khazei, a first-generation student, was... In this article: City Year, Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, Harvard, AmeriCorps, and Washington |
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Observer.com - All Articles | 6 days ago
At the Frick, a Focus on the Collector as Art History
...of certain collectors, including the Met's 2006 Ambroise Vollard show and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's 2008 William Randolph Hearst show. "The interest is growing very, very rapidly," Mr. Brown said. "It's starting to happen. "
In this article: Art history, Henry Clay Frick, Frick Collection, and Is-is
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Guardian | November 12, 2009
1930s journalist Gareth Jones to have story retold
...Nigel Linsan Colley. But again his life changed. He managed to get an interview with a local castle owner: William Randolph Hearst who owned St Donat's Castle near Cardiff. The newspaper magnate was obviously taken by Jones's...
In this article: Gareth Jones, Ukraine, Moscow, Malcolm Muggeridge, Cardiff, and Cambridge
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Boing Boing | November 12, 2009
An evening of confusion with Dell customer service
...you almost had a cohesive thought at the end. Secondly, this is the Internet. Column inches are something that William Randolph Hearst worried about. Use the scroll bar on your right hand side and you'll notice that this article that...
In this article: Dell, Waste, Sweeties, Trademark, Tax, Creative Commons License, Dell Latitude, Boing Boing, and Matrox
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Business Wire Entertainment News | November 11, 2009
HGTV's FrontDoor.com Identifies Top 10 Iconic American Homes
...top U.S. iconic homes. (http://www.frontdoor.com/top10) #10: Hearst Castle. The palatial estate of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst boasts 165 rooms and 127 acres of gardens. The house has welcomed many famous guests over the decades...
In this article: Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, The Brady Bunch, White House, San Francisco, U.S., Playboy magazine, and Scripps Networks
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Independent.ie | November 06, 2009
So, who really did write 'citizen kane'?
...they find someone else as an inspiration for their film. It was Herman Mankiewicz who came up with the idea of William Randolph Hearst as a model -- he had known the legendary multimillionaire media mogul, and had been a regular guest at...
In this article: Orson Welles, Herman J Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, Citizen Kane, RKO, John Dillinger, Hollywood, and Macbeth
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Wales Online | November 06, 2009
Wine & Beer: Pub watch: The Old Swan, Llantwit Major
...tables, hints at the age of this pub with old fireplaces, oak beams and stone arches. US newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst owned nearby St Donat's Castle and famous guests were often transported into the town to try out this...
In this article: Civil War, Bass beer, Cardiff, Birmingham, and US
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San Diego Union-Tribune | November 06, 2009
Today in History - Nov. 6
...Bryan. In 1906, Republican Charles Evans Hughes was elected governor of New York, defeating newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. In 1928, in a first, the results of Herbert Hoover's election victory over Democrat Alfred E....
In this article: Grover Cleveland, Ansari X Prize, Toccoa Falls College, Arne Duncan, Eugene Pitt, Arturo Sandoval, and Pope John Paul II
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AOL | November 05, 2009
Slive & Gold: The Root of SEC's Troubles
...the attention. In the latter days of the 19th century, the term yellow journalism took flight. Ultimately, it led to William Randolph Hearst helping to start the Spanish-American War, "You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war,"...
In this article: SEC, Lane Kiffin, Urban Meyer, ESPN, A league, Brandon Spikes, and Florida
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San Francisco Chronicle | November 01, 2009
California castles fit for a king and queen
Tour $25-$30; must be age 5 or older. Reservations advised. Designed by architect Julia Morgan for newspaper czar William Randolph Hearst and called a castle, this structure is more a spectacular mansion. It took 28 years to build and has 56...
In this article: California, Julia Morgan, England, Ireland, San Simeon, and San Luis Obispo County
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | October 30, 2009
A daughter's take on Orson Welles
Virginia Nicolson's second husband was writer Charles Lederer, the nephew of Marion Davies, the longtime mistress of William Randolph Hearst, who helped inspire the title character of "Citizen Kane," a film the newspaper tycoon tried hard to...
In this article: Orson Welles, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Falstaff, Manhattan, In My Father's Shadow Bogdanovich, The Third Man, and Citizen Kane
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William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher. The son of self-made millionaire George Hearst, he became aware that his father received a northern California newspaper, The San Francisco Examiner, as payment of a gambling debt. Still a student at Harvard, he asked his father to give him the newspaper to run. In 1887, he became the paper's publisher and devoted long hours and much money to making it a success. Crusading for civic improvement and exposing municipal corruption, he greatly increased the paper's circulation.
Moving to New York City, he acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World which led to the creation of yellow journalism — sensationalized stories of dubious veracity. Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst created a chain that numbered nearly 30 papers in major American cities at its peak. He later expanded to magazines, creating the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world.
He was twice elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives, but was defeated in 1906 in a race for governor of New York. Nonetheless, through his newspapers and magazines, he exercised enormous political influence, and is sometimes credited with pushing public opinion in the United States into a war with Spain in 1898. His life story was a source of inspiration for the lead character in Orson Welles' classic film Citizen Kane.
- Birth Date:
- April 29, 1863
- Birthplace:
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Death Date:
- August 14, 1951
- Place of Death:
- Beverly Hills, California, USA
- Spouse:
- Millicent Veronica Willson
- University Attended:
- Harvard University
- Occupation:
- Publisher
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