It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

During the next years he gave me the second of the five contracts I would sign with the Hearst Service.

Six of the railroads carrying coal to Tidewater from the Pennsylvania fields, Hearst said, not only had illegal agreements with coal operators but owned outright at least eleven mines.

They had lost twice with the radical Bryan, and were having no part of Hearst, whom they considered more radical than Bryan.

In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.

Another editor pointed despairingly at a bundle of letters that had accumulated for him, saying, `` But Mr. Hearst, what shall I do with this correspondence ''??

Hearst hopped into a private railroad car with Max Ihmsen and made an arduous personal canvass for delegates in the western and southern states, always wearing a frock coat, listening intently to local politicians, and generally making a good impression.

The Hearst press followed the Chief's progress at the various state conventions with its usual admiring attention, stressing the `` enthusiasm '' and `` loyalty '' he inspired.

A third paper owned by Hearst, called the Afternoon Record, which had been renamed the Evening American, merged in 1961 with the Daily Record to form the Record American.

He closed on the deal after 30 hours of talks with Hearst and newspaper unions — and five hours after Hearst had sent out notices to newsroom employees telling them they were terminated.

During the early 20th century, comic strips were widely associated with publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose papers had the largest circulation of strips in the United States.

Hearst did occasionally work with or pitch ideas to cartoonists, most notably his continued support of George Herriman's Krazy Kat.

He was the Hearst newspapers ' baseball columnist for many years, beginning in 1911, and his knack for spotting the eccentric and the unusual, on the field or in the stands, is credited with revolutionizing the way baseball was covered.

Hearst Magazines was begun in 1903 with the publication of Motor magazine.

Within the next 10 years, Hearst acquired several popular titles in 1905, starting with Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping in 1911.

In 1929, Hearst along with movie studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer created Hearst Metrotone to produce newsreels shown in movie theatres filled with news footage shot around the world.

In an article for the magazine Marie Claire ( published by Hearst Corporation ), Olson's 23-year-old daughter Emily Peterson dismissed her mother's radical past with the SLA, saying:

As a result of this acquisition and the legal dispute with Hearst Corporation, Mandrakesoft announced that the company was changing its name to Mandriva, and that their Linux distribution Mandrake Linux would henceforward be known as Mandriva Linux.

When the attempt to swap Hearst for jailed SLA members failed, the SLA demanded that the captive's family distribute $ 70 worth of food to every needy Californian – an operation that would cost an estimated $ 400 million.

In a joint statement Frank A. Bennack Jr., Hearst vice chairman and chief executive, and Steven R. Swartz, president of Hearst Newspapers, said that the paper, with a circulation of 312, 000, had sustained losses in every year since 2001, lost more than $ 50 million in 2008 and faced an even gloomier 2009.

On January 9, 2009, the Hearst Corporation announced that after losing money on it every year since 2000, Hearst was putting the P-I up for sale.

: Greene to Hearst: " We do not have to show the dream at the beginning and end of every page ...

The Nixon Administration supported the Act's passage, and in the 1972 Presidential Campaign, every Hearst newspaper endorsed Nixon for reelection.

He had worked in the newspaper business since he was nineteen years old, always for the Hearst service.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

In 1904, William Randolph Hearst began publishing his own newspaper in Boston called The American.

Without a television station to subsidize the newspaper, the Herald Traveler was no longer able to remain in business, and the newspaper was sold to Hearst Corporation, which published the rival all-day newspaper, the Record American.

In America, the great popularity of comics sprang from the newspaper war ( 1887 onwards ) between Pulitzer and Hearst.

When Walter Winchell, one of the original gossip columnists and the most powerful entertainment reporter of his day, left the newspaper for the Hearst syndicate, Sullivan took over as theatre columnist.

Its major interests include 15 daily and 38 weekly newspapers, and more than 300 magazines around the world, including Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Elle and O, The Oprah Magazine ; 29 television stations through Hearst Television Inc. which reach a combined 18 % of U. S. viewers ; ownership in leading cable networks, including A + E Networks, and ESPN Inc .; as well as business publishing, Internet businesses, television production, newspaper features distribution and real estate.

George Hearst ( 1820 – 1891 ), American publisher and U. S. senator, entered the newspaper business in 1880, acquiring the San Francisco Daily Examiner.

In 1895, Hearst purchased the New York Journal, laying the foundation for one of the major newspaper dynasties in American history.

At one time, one in four Americans read a Hearst newspaper.

* 1908 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate ( d. 1993 )

This happened because Dirks wanted to take a break after 15 years, but the Hearst newspaper syndicate would not allow it.

* Washington Times-Herald Washington DC newspaper founded in 1893 by William Randolph Hearst.

With the Examiners success established by the early 1890s, Hearst began looking for a New York newspaper to purchase, and acquired the New York Journal in 1895, a penny paper which Pulitzer's brother Albert had sold to a Cincinnati publisher the year before.

* August 14 – William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher ( b. 1863 )

* April 29 – William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher ( d. 1951 )

Hearst and Pulitzer hired men to break up rallies and protect the newspaper deliveries still underway.

Patricia Campbell Hearst ( born February 20, 1954 ), now known as Patricia Campbell Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress, socialite, actress, kidnap victim, and convicted bank robber.