The passengers, some in costumes from the 1920s-1940s, had taken the short, historic ride Saturday afternoon from Paso Robles to the Friends of Hearst Castle’s 12th annual “Enchanted Evening” event at the former estate of powerful, enigmatic media...

Regardless of the true cause of the explosion, the American public responded in outrage. Many adopted the rallying cry, “Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!” The American yellow press, particularly William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal and...

Set in New York City at the turn of the century, Newsies, with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman, and a book by Harvey Fierstein, tells the story of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a ragged band of teenaged 'newsies,' who...

In response, the providers have been trying to resurrect a doctrine known as “hot news” that the AP itself helped to create nearly a century ago. The rule was born in 1918 when the Supreme Court agreed to grant AP a property right in its news in order...

It's a fair question, and one we've been waiting for someone to answer for many years now. As usual, the answer is equal parts luck, chance, and a concerted lobbying effort by William Randolph Hearst to extend his publishing empire. A virus is...

A term that dates to the 19th century and owes its existence to the circulation war between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and the New York Journal of William Randolph Hearst (right), it describes journalism that exaggerates facts, torques the news...