TODAY - Apr 29, 2025

An American publisher was on 29th April, 1863 in San Francisco. His father George Hearst was an industrialist. In 1887 as editor of the paper, he took over, the San Francisco Examiner his father's newspaper. In 1895 he purchased the New York Morning Journal and in 1896 began publication of the Evening Journal. Within months, the combined daily circulation of these two papers had reached the then unprecedented figure of 1.5 million. Hearst was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from New York City in 1903 and 1905. In 1904 he sought but failed to win the presidential nomination of his party. He ran for mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909 and for governor of New York State in 1906, but was defeated each time. Later he made several unsuccessful attempts to win another nomination for the governorship. The economic depression of the 1930s caused Hearst to reduce his holdings to 17 newspapers. Meanwhile, Hearst was steadily expanding his journalistic empire. He also entered the field of magazine publishing. Eventually his magazine properties included Good Housekeeping, Harper's Bazaar, Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan and Town and Country. The largest among them, in terms of circulation, were the New York Daily Mirror, the New York Journal-American, the Chicago Herald-American, the Los Angeles Examiner, and the Boston Sunday Advertiser. He died on August 14, 1951, Beverly Hills, California, United States.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal