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Journalist and publisher. The Pulitzer Prize for journalism is named after him. Born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire he emigrated to the US in 1864 and took part in the Civil War. Pulitzer purchased a local newspaper is Missouri, before moving to New York and buying the daily The World and many other papers. His publications were known for their eye-catching headlines and sensational stories and marked the inception of yellow journalism and the reliance on advertising as economic model. Later in life, Pulitzer sat in the US Senate as congressman of New York, and founded The Columbia University School of Journalism, the first of its type in the world.
