Joseph Pulitzer

award

Honor given for merit

• journalismNews gathering and dissemination
• honorsRecognition for achievement
• recognitionPerceiving something as known

literature · achievement · excellence · reporting · fiction · poetry · drama · music · photography · editorial

muckraking

Investigative reporting on corruption

• yellow journalismReporting prioritizing shock value
• sensationalismOverhyped news coverage
• investigativeDevoted to examination

exposé · reportage · editorial · crusade · tabloidization · scoop · headline · feature story · byline · dateline

magnate

Wealthy business leader

• press baronPowerful newspaper owner
• proprietorBusiness holder
• media mogulCommunications industry titan

owner · businessman · entrepreneur · editor-in-chief · acquisition · competition · self-made · philanthropist

press

Apply force downward

• circulationMovement through a system
• broadsheetLarge-format serious newspaper
• tabloidSensationalist newspaper format

headline · edition · newsprint · column · gazette · masthead · front page · evening edition · newsboy · syndication

endowment

Permanent donated fund

• philanthropyGenerous giving for others
• press freedomRight to publish uncensored
• professional standardsExpected conduct in occupations

public interest · watchdog · democratic ideals · media ethics

• newspapersnewspaper, headlines, headline, news, articles
• Media MogulsRupert Murdoch, William Randolph Hearst, Ted Turner, Michael Bloomberg, media mogul
• Media PioneersGutenberg, Marconi, Edison, Walt Disney, Rupert Murdoch
• Press FiguresWilliam Randolph Hearst, Ida Tarbell, Nellie Bly, Edward R. Murrow, Bob Woodward
• journalismreporters, interview, editors, student editors, school paper
• journalistsreporter, correspondent, anchorwoman, news correspondent, journalist