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.

The change of animals apparently took place at the request of Hearst.

A month after Hearst took over the paper, the Examiner ran this headline about a hotel fire:

Having clamored for a fight for two years, Hearst took credit for the conflict when it came: A week after the United States declared war on Spain, he ran " How do you like the Journal's war?

When William Randolph Hearst III took over the San Francisco Examiner in 1985, he offered Griffith an opportunity to do Zippy as a daily strip.

Frank Bartholomew, the last UP president to ascend to the agency's top job directly from its news, rather than sales, ranks, took over in 1955, and according to his cited autobiography, was obsessed with merging UP with the International News Service, a news agency that had been founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1909 following Scripps ' lead.

* Dissatisfied with other documentaries made on the subject, Hearst produced a special for the Travel Channel entitled Secrets of San Simeon with Patricia Hearst in which she took viewers inside her grandfather's mansion Hearst Castle, providing unprecedented access to the property.

Davies was already building a reputation as a popular film comedienne when Hearst took over her career, promoting her heavily through his newspapers, and pressuring the studios to cast her in historical dramas to which she was not suited.

This arrangement stayed in place until the Hearst Corporation took full control of the Chronicle.

Since the Hearst Corporation took ownership in 2000 the Chronicle has made periodic changes to its organization and design, but on February 1, 2009, as the newspaper began its 145th year of publication, the Chronicle's Sunday edition introduced a redesigned paper featuring a modified logo, new section and page organization, new features, bolder, colored section-front banners and new headline and text typography.

Hearst recently took the same course with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and if the Chronicle is closed San Francisco would be America's largest city without a full-service English-language daily newspaper.

The first weeks ' editions were dominated by the input of the Hearst and Scripps papers, but after a time, the " Widget " ( as the merged publication was nicknamed ) took on the appearance and style of the late-era Herald Tribune.

Hearst first approached American architect Julia Morgan with ideas for a new project in April 1915, shortly after he took ownership.

Hearst took the ideas that worked in his successful publications ; the less successful ideas stayed with the Enquirer, and as a result the Enquirer's sales never soared.

William Randolph Hearst took over the paper in 1921, and the Hearst Corporation owns the P-I to this day.

To finance the construction, Ziegfeld borrowed from William Randolph Hearst, who took control of the theater after Ziegfeld's death.

* During her involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, Patty Hearst took on the alias " Tania.

Competing with two raucous Hearst papers filled with gossip, features and comic strips, Harry Grant took a more sober approach to news presentation, emphasizing local news.

WFFF began operating as an independently-owned and controlled station around the same time Hearst took over WPTZ / WNNE when the LMA with WPTZ was terminated.

Over 10, 000 people wrote tributes to Hammond, including: Hearst whose father gave him his first job, Woolf Barnato whose father ( Barney Barnato ) took him to South Africa, Sir Lionel Phillips who was condemned to death with him, the Guggenheims who employed him at a fabulous salary, former President Taft who offered him an ambassador position, and President Calvin Coolidge who consulted with him on the coal situation.

For a brief period of time, Murray wrote a weekly column for newspaper scion William Randolph Hearst.

: Hearst to Greene: " If we find first series is not a success, of course we can brief it, but if it is a success it should be a long series.

* Hearst Corporation home page

The SLA became internationally notorious for kidnapping media heiress Patty Hearst, abducting the 19-year-old and her 26-year-old boyfriend Steven Weed from their home in Berkeley, California.

The plot centers on Joanna ’ s return to her liberal upper-class American home in San Francisco, bringing her new fiancé to dinner to meet her parents ( newspaper publisher Matt Drayton ( Spencer Tracy ), perhaps a Hearst characterization, and his wife, small art gallery owner Christina Drayton ( Katharine Hepburn )).

In June 1974, Patty Hearst was kept in a home in Jeffersonville that was rented by Nicki Scott, a Symbionese Liberation Army ally.

Hearst was a prolific buyer who did not so much purchase art and antiques to furnish his home as built his home to get his bulging collection out of warehouses.

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.

" In Susan Choi's book, American Woman, which mirrors the Patty Hearst scandal of the 1970s, the Bay's waters are said to welcome main characters Jenny and Pauline home after they've traversed from the East coast.

Tourists traveling Hwy 1 often stopped for fresh buttermilk and a famed publisher William Randolph Hearst stopped often in Harmony on his way to his opulent home in San Simeon, 12 miles northwest, as did many of the Hollywood celebrities who were frequent guests of Hearst.

La Marr was known as " The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful ", after a Hearst newspaper feature writer, Adela Rogers St. Johns, saw a judge sending her home during the police beat in Los Angeles because she was too beautiful and young to be on her own.

Over the years, WTAE has aired Pittsburgh Steelers games that air nationally on ESPN, since due to NFL broadcasting rules all cable games must air on a broadcast network in the home markets of the teams participating ( WTAE's parent Hearst owns a 20 % stake in ESPN ), though the broadcast in the home team's primary market may be blacked out if the game doesn't sell out 72 hours before kick-off ( this has not been a problem for the Steelers, who have a sell-out streak dating to 1972-the last year that even sold-out home games could not be locally televised ).

The Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the University of California, Berkeley is currently home to the university's Materials Science and Engineering Department, with research and teaching spaces for the subdisciplines of Biomaterials ; Chemical and Electrochemical Materials ; Computational Materials ; Electronic, Magnetic and Optical Materials ; and Structural Materials.

However, despite a fine offensive season, he hit only 11 home runs, eliciting this quote from Murcer, " Patty Hearst could be hiding in Candlestick's upper deck and nobody would ever find her ", referring to how tough it was to hit long balls at the park where the Giants played their home games.

The Los Altos was home to many Hollywood celebrities — including Bette Davis, Mae West, and William Randolph Hearst — before the Great Depression, David Boreanaz has also cited it as one of his favorite episodes.

( The same penthouse was later the home of Randolph Hearst, father of kidnapped Patty Hearst.

William Randolph Hearst's longstanding vendetta with Bell had started when Bell refused to sell a homesite to Hearst for a home to house his silent-film-star mistress, Marion Davies in the Bell's Bel-Air Estates development.

In a story headed, `` Hearst Offers Cash '', the Republican New York Tribune spread the money rumor, quoting an unnamed `` Hearst supporter '' as saying:

In his own state of New York, the two Democratic bellwethers, State Leader Hill and Tammany Boss Murphy, were saying nothing openly against Hearst but industriously boosting their own favorites, Murphy being for Cleveland and Hill for Parker.

On January 31, 1912, Hearst introduced the nation's first full daily comic page in his New York Evening Journal.

Hearst was notorious for his practice of yellow journalism, and he was frowned on by readers of The New York Times and other newspapers which featured few or no comic strips.

Hearst Tower ( New York City ) | Hearst Tower, in September 2006

The Hearst Corporation is an American mass media group based in the Hearst Tower, Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States.

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

New York: Arco ; Hearst Books international.

The Hearst Tower ( New York City ) | Hearst Tower in New York City.

* 2006, Hearst Tower, New York City, United States

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.

In July 1899, a large number of New York City newsboys refused to distribute the papers of Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the World, and William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the Journal.

" Harry never lost the spirit of the law ," Dr. Harold W. Williams, then a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, told The New York Times in 1976, when prosecutors asked Dr. Kozol to examine Hearst.

Universal did, however, film some aerial shots of the airship over New York which was later mixed with some aerial shots the Hearst crew had filmed.

The Hearst newsreel has some different shots of the airship over New York compared to the Universal report and also shows footage of passengers inside the ship from 1936.