Topic: Joseph Pulitzer

Mars Bar Lives! .... Well, Sort Of

Mars Bar, the beloved East Village institution that closed its doors for good last year, isn't being allowed to rest in peace. DNA Info reports...
Disney Theatrical and the Paper Mill Playhouse have pulled off a Pulitzer surprise with a new stage version of the 1992 film flop "Newsies," which...
In the new stage musical "Newsies," based on the 1992 big-screen Disney dud, scruffy ragamuffins go from downtrodden to triumphant.. . If that plot...
By Paul Collins. . It was 1 a.m. on a hot July night when detectives marched into the offices of the New York World. “Where's the head?” they...

Pulitzer, The Prized Publisher

A penniless, 18-year-old Hungarian couldn't speak English well as he got off the boat in Boston in 1864.. "This sounds quaint today," James McGrath Morris, author of "Pulitzer: "We were in the age of such cynicism, but Pulitzer believed that the ...
Joseph Pulitzer, the owner of the New York World, and William Randolph Hearst, the owner of the New York Journal, suffered substantial losses in revenue so they began sensationalizing and fabricating stories in an attempt to increase readership. Frustrated by the fact ...
The Koreans have just maliciously attacked an American Naval vessel in the waters of the South China Sea. This is what essentially happened when William Randolph Hearst's competitive newspaper, the New York Journal recounted falsely that an American battleship, the Maine ...
The Pulitzer Prize was created by Columbia University to honor Joseph Pulitzer who had died 6 years previously and left the University with a large endowment. Pulitzer had been a famous newspaper man, noted for ?eye popping? headlines and ?yellow journalism?. Firstly ...

A history of comic strips

Comic strips have been appearing in newspapers ever since newspaper printing began in the early 1600's. Franklin's editorial depicted the ongoing feud between the two newspaper editors William Hearst and his rival Joseph Pulitzer, benefactor of the famed Pulitzer Prize ...

New York’s Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty, also called as Liberty Enlightening the World,? is a statue given by France to the United States in the late 19th century, located at Liberty Island in the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor as a ...