#135 Joseph Pulitzer (Politics & Media)

Like Alfred Nobel. Joseph Pulitzer is better known today for the prize that bears his name than for his contributions to history. That is a shame. In the nineteenth century, when America became an industrial nation, the And Carnegie provided the steel.

Rockefeller the oil. Morgan the money. And Vanderbilt the railroads. Joseph Pulitzer was the midwife to the birth of the modern mass media. What he accomplished was as significant in his time as the creation of television would be in the twentieth century.

And it remains deeply relevant. In today's information age. Pulitzer's lasting achievement was to transform American journalism into a medium of mass consumption and immense influence. He accomplished this by being the first media lord to recognize the vast social changes that the Industrial Revolution triggered. And by harnessing all the converging elements of entertainment, technology,

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