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

The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.

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

By the end of 1898, Western pilgrims started coming to Akka on pilgrimage to visit ` Abdu ' l-Bahá ; this group of pilgrims, including Phoebe Hearst, was the first time that Bahá ' ís raised up in the West had met ` Abdu ' l-Bahá.

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.

After the 1932 release of MGM's adaptation of The Mask of Fu Manchu, which featured the Asian villain telling an assembled group of " Asians " ( consisting of caricatural Indians, Persians and Arabs ) that they must " kill the white men and take their women ", a Harvard University student group petitioned MGM producer William Randolph Hearst ( who had also serialized the novel in his Cosmopolitan magazine ) to cease making further films based on the property.

William Hearst died in 1951, at age 88, and was succeeded by Richard E. Berlin as chief executive officer ; Berlin had served as president of the company since 1943.

In November 2006, Reilly's attorney presented to U. S. District Judge Susan Illston a letter from Hearst senior vice president James Asher to MediaNews President Jody Lodovic that said the two companies agreed to " offer national advertising and internet advertising sales for their San Francisco Bay area newspapers on a joint basis, and to consolidate the San Francisco Bay Area distribution networks of such newspapers ..." Illston, suggesting she had been misled by the companies when they said they had not been collaborating, issued a 14-page ruling forbidding Hearst and MediaNews from working together on national advertising sales or distribution.

In November 1898 Hearst, with Lua Getsinger and others, stopped off at Paris briefly on their way to Palestine and was shocked to see May Bolles ( later Maxwell ) bedridden with the chronic malady which had afflicted her.

Interest increased when Hearst, in audiotaped messages delivered to ( and broadcast by ) regional news media, denounced her parents and announced she had joined the SLA.

Hearst later alleged that she had been held in close confinement, sexually assaulted and brainwashed.

Hearst had previously been signed with MGM, but ended the association after a dispute with the company's head producer Irving Thalberg over the treatment of Hearst's long standing mistress, actress Marion Davies, who was struggling for box office success.

Wardman had also used the expression " yellow kid journalism " referring to the then-popular comic strip which was published by both Pulitzer and Hearst during a circulation war.

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.

While most sources say that Hearst simply offered more money, Pulitzer — who had grown increasingly abusive to his employees — had become an extremely difficult man to work for, and many World employees were willing to jump for the sake of getting away from him.

Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.

He spent years as an employee of the Hearst Corporation, eventually as editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner.

Cerf attended Townsend Harris High School, the same public school as composer Richard Rodgers, publisher Richard Simon, and playwright Howard Dietz ; and he spent his teenage years at 790 Riverside Drive, an apartment building in Washington Heights that was home to two other friends who became prominent as adults, Howard Dietz and the Hearst newspapers financial editor Merryle Rukeyser.

After three and a half years spent mostly outside the wrestling limelight, Warrior returned to the WWF in March 1996, squashing Hunter Hearst Helmsley at WrestleMania XII.

Hearst spent a fortune renovating and revitalising the castle, bringing electricity not only to his residence but also to the surrounding area.

Hearst spent much of his time entertaining influential people at his estates.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.

* 1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $ 4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.

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.

In 2011, Hearst absorbed more than 100 magazine titles from the Lagardere group for more than $ 700 million and became a challenger of Time Inc ahead of Condé Nast.

William Randolph Hearst | Hearst's treatment was more effective and focused on the enemy who set the bomb — and offered a huge reward to readers

Phoebe Hearst, wife of one of the principals, was instrumental in making Lead more livable.

Some of the more significant cases included St Donat's Castle, bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1925 and then decorated with numerous medieval buildings removed from their original sites around Britain, and the case of Hornby, where many parts of the castle were sold off and sent to buyers in the United States.

Published by Hearst Magazines, Cosmopolitan has 63 international editions, is printed in 32 languages and is distributed in more than 100 countries.

Herriman realized his $ 750-per-week salary from Hearst's King Features Syndicate was far more than the revenue the strip could be generating, but Hearst refused Herriman's offer to take a pay cut.

Publishers of yellow journals, such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, were more intent on increasing circulation through scandal, crime, entertainment and sensationalism.

The wealth from silver, more than from gold, fueled the maturation of San Francisco in the 1860s and helped the rise of some of its wealthiest families, such as that of George Hearst.

The English magazine continued in operation for more than 40 years under several owners and editors until it was bought by the William Randolph Hearst company in 1916.

: Previously head of BBC's television music and arts department, Hearst attempted to make Radio 3 more accessible to a wider audience by introducing drivetime and request programmes as well as themed weekends.

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.

Morgan persuaded Hearst to begin with the guest cottages because the smaller structures could be completed more quickly.

In 1916, William Randolph Hearst, multi-millionaire and newspaper magnate, started a rival animation studio called International Film Service and hired most of Barré's animators, including Bill Nolan, by paying them more money than Barré could provide.

" A fictional Charles Standhurst, who owns " more than twenty newspapers stretched across the nation ", is said to be " second only to Hearst ".

In 1982, Charter sold the magazine to the Hearst Corporation, and in April 1983 Smith was fired and replaced by Annette Capone, who " de-emphasized the traditional fiction, featured more celebrity covers, and gave a lot of coverage to exercise, fitness, and nutrition.

Each week, Reed Brennan Media Associates, a unit of the Hearst Corporation, edits and distributes more than 200 features for King Features.