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Joseph Pulitzer

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Joseph Pulitzer
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Joseph Pulitzer arrived in the United States from Hungary in 1864 as a teenage recruit for the Union Army, speaking little English. Working in a German-language newspaper in St Louis, he learnt journalism, then bought and built the St Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World into mass-circulation papers. His will funded the Columbia journalism school and the prizes that bear his name.
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