- Anthony Gedeon -
William Randolph Hearst was born on April 29,1863 in San Francisco CA as an only child to
George and Phoebe Hearst; he died August 14, 1951 in Beverly Hills, CA. In Hearst’s early life he was taught in many different private schools and took tours all around Europe. He was the editor for the
Harvard Lampoon, Harvard's comedy magazine, for two years then shortly after was expelled for misconduct. He was an American newspaper publisher, businessman and politician and was known for creating the nation’s biggest newspaper media company and chain called the “Hearst communications.”
He began in the publishing business in the year 1887 with his friend Mitchell Trubitt, after they were given control of the San Francisco Examiner by Hearst’s' extremely wealthy father. He married Millicent Willson and they had five sons during their marriage.
In 1895 he earned the New York Journal, and launched the Evening Journal in 1896. He used the New York Journal to exaggerate stories to sell more papers than competitors, like Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer and Hearst’s antics eventually started a war and was one of the very first times the phrase “Yellow
Journalism” was used. Later in Hearst’s life, he got elected as a Democrat for the U.S House of
Representatives. In 1904 he ran unsuccessfully for president of the United States. While he was working politically, he took views from mostly those in the Progressive movements’ left-wing and claimed on behalf of the working class, to speak.