newsboys’ strike against, 349–54, 355, 358, 518n
newsprint paper used for, 2, 237, 326, 350, 454
newsstand price of, 211, 219, 224, 289, 322, 323, 325–26, 349–53, 355, 357, 517n, 518n
“New York” dropped from title of, 209
New York Journal as rival of, 3–4, 321–32, 334, 338–41, 343, 372–73, 388, 517n, 518n, 519n
Panama Canal program criticized by, 4, 417–40, 525n, 526n
Park Row building designed for (Pulitzer Building), 274–75, 276, 278–80, 286–87, 289, 299, 302, 322–23, 331, 340, 345, 353, 365, 379, 409, 413–14, 415, 417, 458, 462, 463, 511n
Park Row offices of, 2, 3, 206, 208, 215, 220, 232, 241, 245, 249, 256, 274, 288, 290, 323, 328, 339, 350–51, 353, 403–4, 413–14
payroll of, 212, 226, 244, 274, 292, 333
photographs published in, 379–80, 455
political cartoons in, 225–28, 230–31, 245, 259, 296, 506n
political influence of, 210–11, 216, 219–32, 251, 262–63, 269, 271–72, 273, 275, 276, 285–86, 305–6, 308–9, 326–28, 331, 332–33, 338–43, 347–48, 381–82, 388–93, 414–16, 458
press coverage of, 210–11, 218–19, 223–24, 249, 282, 288–89, 340, 415, 420–21, 426, 428, 429, 430, 521n
printing presses of, 208, 212, 226, 231–32, 250–51, 286, 326, 330–31, 340, 500n, 506n
promotional tactics of, 165, 210–11, 226–27, 235–37, 244–45, 250, 251, 255–56, 271, 282
proof pages of, 215, 287
Pulitzer as absentee owner of, 249–50, 255–56, 258, 265, 270, 271, 273–74, 278–80, 281, 284, 285–89, 290, 292, 294–98, 301–3, 305, 307–8, 320, 321–27, 329–33, 334, 340–41, 343, 353–59, 363–65, 379–80, 394, 399, 410, 413–14, 420–21, 425–26, 427, 428–29, 462
Pulitzer as editor of, 208–65, 285–89, 300–301, 328, 329–33, 334, 340–42, 343, 353–54, 379–80, 381–84, 388–93, 399–401, 406–7, 413–16, 424–27, 453–54, 455, 460–61, 462
Pulitzer as publisher of, 2, 204–65, 285–89, 308–9, 435, 458–61, 462, 463, 504n
Pulitzer’s office at, 211–12, 239, 263, 265, 287
Pulitzer’s purchase of, 204–10, 232, 257, 292, 504n
Pulitzer’s statement of principles for, 208–9, 271, 279, 356, 358, 359–60, 406–7
reform promoted by, 285–86, 381–82, 406–7, 455
reporters of, 208, 212, 213–15, 248–49, 300, 302–3, 341, 345–46, 350, 363, 378, 389, 393, 400, 403–4, 413–14, 417–19, 425, 431–32, 462
Republicans attacked by, 222–28, 285–86, 381, 506n
reputation of, 2, 3–5, 95, 271, 274–75, 278–80, 286–87, 323, 330–31, 340–41, 358–59, 363, 372–73, 379–82, 388–89, 420–40, 458–59, 521n
Roosevelt attacked by, 4, 222–23, 297, 312–13, 315, 316, 317–18, 388–93, 416, 417–40
St. Louis Post and Dispatch compared with, 205, 206, 217, 223, 233
sale of, 462–63
sensationalism used by, 3–4, 209, 213–15, 251–52, 253, 260, 261–62, 273, 297, 320, 330–31, 339–41, 345–46, 357, 372–73, 377, 403, 453, 521n
society news in, 227, 379–80, 399–400
staff lost by, 248–49, 290–91, 298, 301, 322, 324, 330–31, 334, 353, 375
Statue of Liberty campaign of, 235–37, 238, 244–46, 251, 276, 507n, 508n
Sunday edition of, 224, 237, 300, 322, 323, 326, 330–31, 344, 345
tenth anniversary of, 299, 300
time capsule for, 280, 511n
twentieth anniversary of, 380, 381
twenty-fifth anniversary of, 415
typography of, 2, 287, 341, 379
upper class criticized by, 185–86, 195, 216–17, 220, 257, 259–60, 290, 399–400
in Venezuelan crisis, 313–17, 325, 342
working class readers of, 213–14, 233, 235–37, 246, 285–86, 312–13, 400
“yellow journalism” of, 3–4, 330–31, 345–46, 373, 377, 403, 521n
World Almanac, 250, 520n
Yaeger, Henry C., 489n
“yellow journalism,” 3–4, 330–31, 345–46, 373, 377, 403, 521n
“Yellow Kid,” 330–31
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), 331
Zentralfriedhof cemetery, 443.
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JAMES McGRATH MORRIS is the author of The Rose Man of Sing Sing: A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism, which was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of 2004. He is the editor of the monthly Biographer’s Craft, and his writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Observer, and the Baltimore Sun.
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*Confusingly to modern readers, the Republican was the Democratic paper and the Democrat was, yes, the Republican paper.
*Pulitzer’s use of this analogy is interesting, as his religious upbringing did not include the New Testament.
*In the nineteenth century, the term “card” referred to a brief pesonal note published in a newspaper, similar to a modern letter to the editor. Cards containing strong language were sometimes a preliminary to a dual.
*The spelling in Pulitzer’s time was “Jekyl.” The second “l” was added in 1929.
*It was then customary for the U.S. Navy to paint its ships white during peacetime.
*Later replaced by the “telephone game.”
*Roosevelt, insultingly, was comparing Pulitzer to Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, the historian Thomas Macaulay’s favorite whipping boy. Barère w
as an advocate of the guillotine during the French Revolution. Typical of the comments made by Macaulay was one in an essay of 1844. “Barère approached nearer than any person mentioned in history or fiction, whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities which are the proper object of contempt, preserve an exquisite and absolute harmony.” (Thomas Babington Macaulay, Complete Works of Lord Macaulay [London: Longmans, Green, 1898], 170.)
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