Imperialism and Expansionism in American History by Chris Magoc

Author:Chris Magoc
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781610694308
Publisher: ABC-CLIO

Following the declaration of war, Hearst traveled to Cuba with the American invasion forces as a war correspondent. His reports of the fighting and the conditions faced by American troops were serious and accurate, a major departure from his newspaper’s earlier yellow journalism. However, Hearst’s reputation and personal standing suffered a serious blow when two of his reporters published separate stories in the New York Journal intimating the assassination of President William McKinley. When the president was assassinated in September 1901, many critics accused Hearst and his yellow journalism with having inspired the assassin. Hearst was haunted for the remainder of his life by the incident.

At the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, Pulitzer determined to return the New York World to its original Progressive roots, campaigning for social change. When he died in 1911, the newspaper was widely respected and would continue as a leading reformist and liberal paper until it stopped publication in 1931. Upon his death, Pulitzer established the Pulitzer Prize for journalistic excellence and also created the school of journalism at Columbia University.

Alan M. Anderson

See also: Aguinaldo, Emilio; Manila Bay, Battle of; McKinley, William; Propaganda, Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars; Paris, Treaty of (1898); USS Maine

Further Reading

Campbell, W. Joseph. Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001.

Morris, James McGrath. Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.

Nasaw, David. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

Spencer, David R. The Yellow Journalism: The Press and America’s Emergence as a World Power. Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2007.

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