Joseph+Pulitzer

Back To Site Papers of the 19th Century: **//The New York World//, run by Joseph Pulitzer and //The New York Journal//, run by William Randolph Hearst**.

In 1895, William Hearst purchased the New York Journal, which became the rival of Pulitzer's soon after. The term, yellow journalism, was derived, through a series of peculiar circumstances, from a cartoon by the famous 19th century cartoonist, Robert Outcault called "The Yellow Kid" (see below). The cartoon was first published in The World, until Hearst hired him away to produce the strip in his newspaper. Pulitzer then hired another artist to produce the same strip in his newspaper. This comic strip happened to use a new special, non-smear yellow ink, and because of the significance of the comic strip, the term "yellow journalism" was constantly used by ctitics.

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