He was born as Pulitzer József (name order by Hungarian custom) in Makó, about 200 km south-east of Budapest, the son of Elize (Berger) and Fülöp Pulitzer (born Politzer).

Pulitzer founded the Columbia School of Journalism by his philanthropic bequest it opened in 1912. The prizes are given annually to recognize and reward excellence in American journalism, photography, literature, history, poetry, music, and drama. Pulitzer's name is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes established in 1917 as a result of his endowment to Columbia University. The wide appeal reached a million copies a day and opened the way to mass-circulation newspapers that depended on advertising revenue (rather than cover price or political party subsidies) and appealed to readers with multiple forms of news, gossip, entertainment and advertising. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal caused both to develop the techniques of yellow journalism, which won over readers with sensationalism, sex, crime and graphic horrors. He became a leading national figure in the Democratic Party and was elected congressman from New York. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World.

Joseph Pulitzer ( / ˈ p ʊ l ɪ t s ər/ PUUL-it-sər born Pulitzer József, Hungarian: Ap– October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American politician and newspaper publisher of the St.

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