Joseph Pulitzer

Yiming Ye Titus Wu

Early Life
Born in Mako, Hungary Pulitzers was a Jewish family that established a reputation as merchants and shopkeepers Educated by private tutors His wealthy father, Fulop Pulitzer, died and became bankrupt, thus making family impoverished At age 17, he emigrated to the US and enlisted in the army. Worked odd jobs while studying English by himself at St. Louiss Mercantile Library

Personal Life
Married Kate Davis in the Protestant Church Had serious health concerns due to his over-intensive work Bore seven children, with only five that lived to adulthood Was born with a weak eyesight Elected to represent a New York District in the United States House of Representatives, but resigned within five months Died aboard a yacht at Charlestown, South Carolina resulting from failing health.

Sample Work
The New York World Excerpts from daily newspaper coverage of the explosion of the U.S.S.Maine Published February 16 and 17, 1898 By January 1898, Cuba had been fighting a revolution for independence from Spain for nearly three years. Cuban rebels wanted freedom to govern themselves. Spain wanted to hold onto the Cuban colony, whose rich sugarcane and tobacco industries were valuable resources. On January 12, in the Cuban capital of Havana, a pro-Spanish but anti-military newspaper, El Reconcentrado, published an article that criticized a Spanish army officer. Army officers and their civilian friends reacted by destroying the offices of El Reconcentrado, as well as those of two newspapers that supported Cuban autonomythe right of Cuba to govern itself as a free state within the Spanish empire. This event led to riots between Spaniards and Cubans who disagreed on the issue of Cuban freedom. The United States, which had stayed out of the Cuban conflict, reacted to the riots by sending Captain Charles Sigsbee and the U.S. battleship Maine to Havana on January 24. Calling it a friendly mission, U.S. president William McKinley (1843-1901; served 1897-1901; see entry in Biographies section) hoped that the naval visit would protect American lives and property in the region and pressure Spain to bring the revolution to an end through peaceful negotiations. On the evening of Tuesday, February 15, the Maine mysteriously exploded while anchored in Havana harbor. Of the 355 people onboard, 252 died in the explosion and eight more died in Havana hospitals from their wounds. Many American newspapers already wanted to wagewar with Spain to end the revolution, and the Maine disaster fueled that fire. These excerpts from the New York World, which was in

Career
Offered job by critiquing the chess moves of the Westliche Post Built reputation as journalist for 4 years working 16 hours a day Became publisher at 25 and became owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1878 Purchased New York World for $346,000, emphasised human-interest, scandal, and sensationalism stories in 1883 The Famous News War Exposed illegal payment by US to French Panama Canal Company in 1909 Failing health caused him to withdraw from the active scene

The Pulitzer Prize

Established in his 1904 will 4 awards in journalism Medal designed in 1918 Winner receives $10,000 cash Been around for more than 100 years

Memorable Quotes
"Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations." "Well, I suppose it is because every reporter is a hope, and every editor is a disappointment." "Leise, ganz leise" (English: "Softly, quite softly.")

Works Cited
--Dubro, Marsha. "Famed Publisher Pulitzer Quit His US House Seat within Five Months; He Was Fed up -- Sound Familiar? (Photos)." Examiner.com. 06 Sept. 2013. <www.examiner. com/publisher-quit/> --"Joseph Pulitzer Life and Biography." Joseph Pulitzer Biography, Birth Date, Birth Place and Pictures. Browse Biography, n.d. Web. 06 Sept. 2013. <www.browsebio. com/pulitzer> --"Pulitzer Biography." The Pulitzer Prizes. Pulitzer Prizes, n.d. Web. 06 Sept. 2013. <http://www.pulitzer.org/biography>. --"The Medal." The Pulitzer Prizes. The Pulitzer Prizes, n.d. Web. 06 Sept. 2013. <http://www.pulitzer.org/theMedal>.