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William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher and politician. He laid the foundation for the Hearst family's mass media empire via his control of the Hearst Corporation. His extravagant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human-interest stories. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 with Mitchell Trubitt after…
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business · American newspaper publisher (1863–1951) · politician · reporter · publisher · socialite · businessperson · art collector · also William Randolph Hearst, w.m r. hearst, Wiliam R. Hearst, william r. hearst, w.r. hearst, wm r. hearst
Born 29 April 1863 · Died 14 August 1951 · Q294931
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Times Union: A tribute to William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
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2020· 1 entry
David Fincher directed Mank, starring Gary Oldman as Mankiewicz, as he interacts with Hearst prior to the writing of Citizen Kane's screenplay
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2013· 1 entry
Houston Chronicle: The Song of the River: Tribute to William Randolph Hearst
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1951· 4 entries
Retaining her original 30,000 shares and a role as an advisor
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Died 1951-08-14.
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“Please realize that the first duty of newspaper men is the get the news and PRINT THE NEWS.”
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“Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.”
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1950· 1 entry
Gave her a controlling interest in the corporation
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1948· 1 entry
The Monterey Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America purchased the property, originally 1,445 acres (585 ha), from the Hearst Sunical Land and Packing Company for $20,000
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1947· 2 entries
Hearst left his San Simeon estate to seek medical care, which was unavailable in the remote location
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Hearst paid $120,000 for an H-shaped Beverly Hills mansion, (located at 1011 N
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1941· 2 entries
Hearst wrote a column in the New York Journal-American the following day, praising Hitler as the "saviour of Europe", expressed regret that the British policy of "co-operation with Hitler against communism was thrown out
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Put about 20,000 items up for sale; these were evidence of his wide and varied tastes
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1940· 1 entry
Hearst sold 158,000 acres (63,940 ha), including the Rancho Milpitas, to the United States government
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1937· 1 entry
Hearst began selling some of his art collection to help relieve the debt burden he had suffered from the Depression
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1935· 1 entry
Hearst ordered his editors to reprint eyewitness accounts of the Ukrainian famine (the Holodomor, which occurred in 1932–1933)
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1934· 1 entry
After checking with Jewish leaders, Hearst visited Berlin to interview Adolf Hitler
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1933· 1 entry
By Welsh freelance journalist Gareth Jones, and by the disillusioned American Communist Fred Beal
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1932· 2 entries
So Hearst sought to block the nomination of Franklin D
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With control of delegations from his own state of California and from Garner's home state of Texas, Hearst had enough influence to ensure that the triumphant Roosevelt picked Garner as his running mate
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1929· 1 entry
Became one of the sponsors of the first round-the-world voyage in an airship, the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin from Germany
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1925· 1 entry
Hearst's Piedmont Land and Cattle Company bought Rancho Milpitas and Rancho Los Ojitos (Little Springs) from the James Brown Cattle Company
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1924· 1 entry
Hearst opened the New York Daily Mirror, a racy tabloid frankly imitating the New York Daily News
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1923· 1 entry
Newhall Land sold Rancho San Miguelito de Trinidad and Rancho El Piojo to William Randolph Hearst
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1922· 1 entry
When he was backed by Tammany Hall leaders for the U
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1921· 1 entry
Purchased the land from the tanning company for about $50,000
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1919· 1 entry
Hearst began to build Hearst Castle, which he never completed, on the 250,000-acre (100,000-hectare; 1,000-square-kilometer) ranch he had acquired near San Simeon
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1916· 1 entry
The Eberhard and Kron Tanning Company of Santa Cruz purchased land from the homesteaders along the Little Sur River
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1915· 1 entry
Founded International Film Service, an animation studio designed to exploit the popularity of the comic strips he controlled
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1912· 1 entry
By means of an oligarchy of plutocrats and industrial trusts engineering the cessation of his advertising revenue
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1907· 1 entry
Hearst ran for mayor of New York City under a third party of his own creation, the Municipal Ownership League
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1906· 1 entry
Nominally remaining a Democrat while also creating the Independence Party
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1904· 1 entry
Mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909, and Governor of New York in 1906
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1903· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States representative (1903–1907).
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40-year-old Hearst married Millicent Veronica Willson (1882–1974), a 21-year-old chorus girl, in New York City
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1898· 1 entry
Was also criticized in Upton Sinclair's 1919 book, The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism
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1895· 2 entries
Was tainted by rumor, propaganda, and sensationalism, with the "yellow" papers regarded as the worst offenders
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With the financial support of his widowed mother (his father had died in 1891), Hearst bought the then failing New York Morning Journal, hiring writers such as Stephen Crane and Julian Hawthorne and entering into a head-
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1887· 2 entries
With Mitchell Trubitt after being entrusted with The San Francisco Examiner by his wealthy father, Senator George Hearst
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Hearst took over management of his father's newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, which his father had acquired in 1880 as repayment for a gambling debt
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1875· 1 entry
Faxon Atherton immediately purchased the land
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1865· 2 entries
Purchased about 30,000 acres (12,000 ha), part of Rancho Piedra Blanca stretching from Simeon Bay and reached to Ragged Point
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Hearst bought all of Rancho Santa Rosa totaling 13,184 acres (5,335 ha) except one section of 160 acres (0
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1863· 2 entries
Born 1863-04-29.
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A millionaire mining engineer, owner of gold and other mines through his corporation, and his much younger wife Phoebe Apperson Hearst, from a small town in Missouri
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1838· 1 entry
By California governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to Ygnacio Pastor
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