Joseph Pulitzer born on April 10, 1847. In 1878 at the age of 31, Pulitzer married Katherine “Kate” Davis (1853-1927).

      He was a newspaper publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He purchased the New York World in 1883 after making the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the dominant daily in that city. Pulitzer strove to make the New York World an entertaining read, and filled his paper with pictures, games and contests that drew in new readers. In the 1890s the fierce competition between his World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journalcaused both to develop the techniques of yellow journalism, which won over readers with sensationalism, sex, crime and graphic horrors.Crime stories filled many of the pages, with headline. Pulitzer only charged readers two cents per issue but gave readers eight and sometimes 12 pages of information (the only other two cent paper in the city never exceeded four pages), in this action we can see that Joseph support people to read newspapers. Just two years after Pulitzer took it over, the World became the highest circulation newspaper in New York, aided in part by its strong ties to the Democratic Party. Today, his name is best known for the Pulitzer Prizes, which were established in 1917 as a result of his endowment to Columbia University. Until now the concept of yellow journalism is still used in newspaper nowadays, because to attract more readers to read in their interest.

·      The U.S. Post Office issued a 3-cent stamp commemorating Joseph Pulitzer on the 1947 100th anniversary of his birth.

·      The Pulitzer Art Museum in Saint Louis was founded by his family's philanthropy and is named in their honor.

·      In 1989 Joseph Pulitzer was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.^[31]

·      He is featured as a character in the Disney film Newsies (1992), in which he was played by Robert Duvall, and the Broadway stage production (Newsies) adapted from it which was produced in 2011.

·      In the 2014 historical novel, The New Colossus, by Marshall Goldberg, published by Diversion Books,^[32] Joseph Pulitzer gives reporter Nellie Bly the assignment of investigating the death of poet Emma Lazarus.

·      The Hotel Pulitzer in Amsterdam was named after his grandson Herbert Pulitzer.