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Hearst, William Randolph
William Randolph Hearst
American newspaper publisher
Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.
Joseph Pulitzer
American newspaper publisher
Winifred Sweet Black.
Winifred Sweet Black
American journalist
Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer
American journalist