If you've ever wondered who Pulitzer was, I wrote about him last week at Just One Bad Century for our feature: "This week in 1908". The following is the portion about Pulitzer...
Joseph Pulitzer turns 61 (April 10) in New York. One of the originators of Yellow Journalism (along with William Randolph Hearst), he will live three more years. Next year he will be indicted for libeling Theodore Roosevelt and J.P Morgan. Ironically, he leaves enough money in his will to found the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (which is still considered one of the best in the world), and the Pulitzer Prize (for excellence in journalism).
