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Born August 23, 1751 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died September 14, 1798 (aged 47) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Founder “Gazette of the United States”
Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.
Joseph Pulitzer
American newspaper publisher
A.S. Abell
American journalist
Roy W. Howard
American journalist
George Creel.
George Creel
American journalist
Benjamin Edes
American publisher
Bartholomew Green
American journalist
Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi
Malaysian writer
Clark Howell
American journalist
John Brown Russwurm
American editor, publisher, and statesman
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
Charlotta Spears Bass
Charlotta Spears Bass
American editor and activist
Hearst, William Randolph
William Randolph Hearst
American newspaper publisher
Jill Abramson
Jill Abramson
American journalist
Jeannette Leonard Gilder
American editor and writer
Dana, Charles A.
Charles A. Dana
American journalist
Hobby, Oveta Culp
Oveta Culp Hobby
United States government official
Ellen Browning Scripps
American publisher and philanthropist
Alicia Patterson
American journalist and publisher
Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson
American poet and journalist
John S. Knight.
John S. Knight
American journalist and publisher