The Herald < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > history can be traced back through two lineages, the Daily Advertiser and the old Boston Herald, and two media moguls, William Randolph Hearst and Rupert Murdoch.

The paper was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in 1917.

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

When Dirks left William Randolph Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Joseph Pulitzer, it was an unusual move, since cartoonists regularly deserted Pulitzer for Hearst.

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.

In one case, in the early 1940s, Don Flowers ' Modest Maidens was so admired by William Randolph Hearst that he lured Flowers away from the Associated Press and to King Features Syndicate by doubling the cartoonist's salary, and renamed the feature Glamor Girls to avoid legal action by the AP.

He defeated William Randolph Hearst in the 1906 election to gain the position, and he was the only Republican statewide candidate to win office.

Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) was said by Orson Welles to not be a biography of William Randolph Hearst, but a composite of many people from that era.

* William Randolph Hearst was an avid lover of dachshunds.

Its business manager, William Randolph Hearst, hired Thayer as humor columnist for the San Francisco Examiner 1886 – 88.

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.

Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings now include a wide variety of media.

Under William Randolph Hearst's will, a common board of thirteen trustees ( its composition fixed at five family members and eight outsiders ) administers the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns ( and selects the 18-member board of ) the Hearst Corporation.

* William Randolph Hearst III, son of 2nd son William Randolph Hearst, Jr.

Seven years later, he turned the Examiner over to his son, 23-year-old William Randolph Hearst.

On March 4, 1887, William Randolph Hearst became editor and publisher of the San Francisco Examiner and transformed the sedate Examiner into " The Monarch of the Dailies.

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

When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.

It debuted December 12, 1897 in the American Humorist, the Sunday supplement of William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

Between December 1916 and August 1918, a total of 37 Katzenjammer Kids silent cartoon shorts were produced by William Randolph Hearst's own cartoon studio International Film Service, which adapted well-known comic strips owned by Hearst for animation.

Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905 – July 23, 1911 and September 3, 1911 – July 26, 1914 ; respectively.

The Yellow Kid was the name of a lead comic strip character that ran from 1895 to 1898 in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, and later William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

In 1896 Outcault was hired away at a much higher salary to William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal American where he drew the Yellow Kid in a new full-page color strip which was significantly violent and even vulgar compared to his first panels for Truth magazine.

Drawn by Jimmy Swinnerton, it began its run in 1893 in the San Francisco Examiner, one of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers.

In 1933, Warner was able to bring newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan films into the Warner Bros. fold.

The following year, Hearst's film adaption of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1935 ) failed at the box office and the studio's net loss increased.

The term originated during the American Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century with the circulation battles between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

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

Scripps Company controlled United Press until its absorption of William Randolph Hearst's smaller competing agency, INS, in 1958 to form UPI.

He was hired by William Randolph Hearst's Chicago Evening American, where he produced his first comic strips, Fillum Fables ( 1924 ) and The Radio Catts.

After switching to William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspaper in 1911, McCay dropped the " Silas " pseudonym and signed his work in his own name.

It was purchased by William Randolph Hearst in the 1920s, dismantled and shipped to the United States, and reassembled after Hearst's death in North Miami Beach in the 1950s.

Those newspapers that were Democratic in their outlook, including publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, sent reporters to Canton to dig up dirt on McKinley.

The stained glass collection includes portions of William Randolf Hearst's former collection and owns the work of Albrecht Dürer and Viet Hirsvogel the Elder.

Some elements of Wynand's character were inspired by real-life newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, including Hearst's mixed success in attempts to gain political influence.

In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal caused both to use yellow journalism for wider appeal ; it opened the way to mass circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue and appealed to readers with multiple forms of news, entertainment and advertising.

" On February 9, 1898, the letter was published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

In October 1896, Outcault defected to William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

He had begun his career as a midwestern sportswriter and had moved to New York City to work with William Randolph Hearst's newspapers.

:* William Randolph Hearst, Jr. ( 1908 – 1993 ), William Randolph Hearst's son

Its legacy can be seen in Thomas Wooler's radical periodical The Black Dwarf, Richard Carlile's numerous newspapers and journals, the radical works of William Cobbett, Henry Hetherington's periodicals the Penny Papers and the Poor Man's Guardian, the works of the Chartist William Lovett, George Holyoake's newspapers and books on Owenism, and freethinker Charles Bradlaugh's New Reformer.

In fact, President William McKinley never read the Journal, nor newspapers like the Tribune and the New York Evening Post.

McCay's employer, William Randolph Hearst, was displeased with McCay's success outside of the newspapers, and used his contractual power to reduce McCay's stage activities.

William Randolph Hearst, who had long wanted Foster to do a comic strip for his newspapers, was so impressed with Foster's pitch for Prince Valiant that he promised Foster a 50-50 split of the gross income on the strip, a very rare offer in those days.

* William Tallon, Steward and Page of the Backstairs in the household of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, typically referred to by newspapers as " Backstairs Billy ", moved from Clarence House in 2002 to a Duchy of Cornwall flat in Kennington.

According to Hanna biographer William T. Horner, the episode was the start of the negative image of Hanna in the press which would be further developed by the Hearst newspapers over a decade later.

In 1929, as William McWhirter was working on the founding of the Northcliffe Newspapers chain of provincial newspapers, the family moved to " Aberfoyle ", in Broad Walk, Winchmore Hill.

In 1929, as William was working on the founding of the Northcliffe Newspapers chain of provincial newspapers, the family moved to " Aberfoyle ", in Broad Walk, Winchmore Hill.

One of the biggest urban scandals of the post-Civil War era was the corruption and bribery case of Tammany boss William M. Tweed in 1871 that was uncovered by newspapers.

The newspapers of William Randolph Hearst played up the murder, and it became known as the " Trial of the Century.

However, Beckford was bisexual and chose self-exile from British society when his letters to William Courtenay, later 9th Earl of Devon, were intercepted by the boy's uncle, who advertised the affair in the newspapers .. Courtenay was just ten years old on first meeting Beckford.

* The estate of William Randolph Hearst, doing business as Hearst Corporation, owns minority shares in ESPN Inc. and A & E Networks, King Features Syndicate, and fifteen newspapers along with 29 local television stations.

William Randolph Hearst, a prominent and wealthy media magnate, began using his newspapers to deride the committee's " reckless attacks on freedom ".

The Cubans had been in a state of rebellion since the 1870s, and American newspapers, particularly New York City papers of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, printed sensationalized " Yellow Journalism " stories about Spanish atrocities in Cuba.

Success for YFCI came from the promotional publicity in the newspapers and magazines owned or influenced by William Randolph Hearst.