The New York World
The New York World was a newspaper that was in publication from 1860 to 1931. The news paper was running unsuccessfully until it was bought by Joseph Pulitzer 1883. In 1890 Pulitzer bought the New York World building, using it as the main offices. It became the tallest office building in New York City.
In 1896 the World started using a four-color printing press and it became the first to launch a color section of the newspaper, which was the yellow kid cartoon, Hogan's Alley. This is what started the big battle between Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal.
The World was accused of being sensational, which later lead to the rise of the term yellow journalism. The World published articles about the poor conditions in the tenements and all of the imperfections of the city. They also wrote a lot of articles exploiting the Spanish-American War. All of these crime stories were exciting to readers, which lead to an increased sale in papers. This also took place with The New York Journal.
The New York Journal
The New York Journal was a New York newspaper that was published between 1895 and 1937 by William Randolph Hearst. It was published as a morning newspaper. Hearst's newspaper coined the phrase "Bulldog Edition" which referred to the earliest edition of a newspaper. After buying the newspaper The New York Journal entered into a circulation war with the New York World.
The newspaper had one of the highest circulations in New York in the 1950's, yet with the natural decline of newspaper circulations it was closed in 1966. While participating in a lock-out after The New York Times and The New York Daily News were struck by a union, the Journal agreed to a merger with the New York World-Telegram and Sun and the New York Herald-Tribune, becoming the New York World Journal Tribune, which also eventually folded after eight months.
The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor is an international newspaper that is published daily from Monday through Friday. It was started in 1908 by a Mary Baker Eddy, who was also the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Most of the newspaper staff are members of the church, but membership is not required to become an employee. The paper mainly uses its own reporters who are stationed in eleven different countries, rather than using wire services. Wire services are different organizations of journalist that report on different things around the world and then they report back to different newspapers, so that the independent papers don't have to send their own reports out.
Even though the paper is published by the church, it was not created to spread their religion, it was created to solely report current issues and events. The only tie it has to its church and the religion is the title of the paper, and the fact that in every issue there is one religious article. Since the paper has been founded it has won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism seven times. When the paper was first published it was published in a broad sheet form, but in recent times it is published in a tabloid style. The newspaper is still in circulation to this day.
