American publisher. Founder of the then largest newspaper group in the world. The Rupert Murdoch of his age. He began by editing the San Francisco Examiner in 1887. He purchased the unsuccessful New York Morning Journal and raised it to the front rank by sensational methods. By 1925 he owned 25 newspapers. The subject of Orson Welles movie ‘Citizen Kane’.

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