Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

Joseph Pulitzer — American Publisher born on April 10, 1847, died on October 29, 1911

Joseph Pulitzer, born József Pulitzer, was a Hungarian-born American newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post Dispatch and the New York World. Pulitzer introduced the techniques of "new journalism" to the newspapers he acquired in the 1880s. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected Congressman from New York. He crusaded against big business and corruption, and helped keep the Statue of Liberty in New York... (wikipedia)

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

Joseph Pulitzer Quotes

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