Journalist Joseph Pulitzer was born on April 10, 1847, in Mákó, Csóngrád County, Hungary. He died on October 29, 1911.
He emigrated to the United States in 1964, served in the Civil War, and later became a naturalized American citizen. In 1968, he joined the German-language newspaper "Vestlýche Post" in St. Louis as a reporter. In 1978, he purchased the bankrupt St. Louis Dispatch, which had gone bankrupt and was being auctioned, and merged it with the St. Louis Post to publish the evening paper "Post-Dispatch."
In 1983, he purchased the New York World and grew it into the largest newspaper in the United States. He then engaged in fierce sales competition with the New York Journal, leading to the creation of the term "yellow journalism" as a synonym for sensational reporting.
He announced his retirement in 1990. In 1903, he donated $1 million to Columbia University to establish a journalism department, part of which later became the Pulitzer Prize. He died in October 1911.