joseph pulitzer

     

He bequeathed $2 million to Columbia University to establish a school of journalism

Trivia about joseph pulitzer

  • With the October 1911 death of this man, Frank Cobb became the editor of the New York World newspaper
  • This publisher who died in 1911 set up a prize fund for awards in journalism, literature, music & drama
  • Born in Hungary, he ran the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before buying the New York World
  • This N.Y. World publisher's fundraising efforts to build the base should have won him a prize
  • He purchased the St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500 in 1878 & soon merged it with the St. Louis Post

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