The immigrant publisher whose newspapers — and the prizes that bear his name — shaped American journalism.
Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian immigrant, built the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and New York World into powerful, crusading newspapers that helped define modern American journalism.
In his will he endowed the Columbia University journalism school and the Pulitzer Prizes — the nation's most prestigious awards in journalism, letters, and music. His descendants ran the Post-Dispatch for generations.
The Pulitzer name is now synonymous with the highest honors in American journalism and the arts, awarded every year from Columbia. The family's papers shaped a century of the press.
The Pulitzer Prizes remain the family's enduring legacy.
The Pulitzer family is based in New York. Founders of a newspaper legacy and the Pulitzer Prizes
1870s.
Joseph Pulitzer — newspaper publisher; founder of the Pulitzer Prizes
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