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54-617: Hearst Corporation , its wholly owned subsidiary Hearst Holdings Inc. , and HHI's wholly owned subsidiary Hearst Communications Inc. (usually referred to simply as Hearst ) constitute an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Hearst owns newspapers, magazines, television channels , and television stations, including

108-522: A digital marketing services business. The acquisition brought Hearst Newspapers to publishing 19 daily and 61 weekly papers. Other 2017 acquisitions include the New Haven Register and associated papers from Digital First Media , and the Alton, Illinois , Telegraph and Jacksonville, Illinois , Journal-Courier from Civitas Media . In October 2017, Hearst announced it would acquire

162-1157: A "buying spree" and purchased three newspapers; the Times in Detroit, the Record in Boston, and the Post-Intelligencer in Seattle. In 1922, he added the Herald in Los Angeles, the Herald in Washington, D.C., established the New York Daily Mirror and started a new daily, the Oakland Post-Enquirer Hearst stepped into the political arena in New York State and by late 1922 he acquired five Upstate New York papers;

216-771: A 1937 liquidation, also had to merge some of his morning papers into his afternoon papers. In Chicago, he combined the morning Herald-Examiner and the afternoon American into the Herald-American in 1939. This followed the 1937 combination of the New York Evening Journal and the morning American into the New York Journal-American , the sale of the Omaha Daily Bee to the World-Herald . Afternoon papers were

270-643: A common board of thirteen trustees (its composition fixed at five family members and eight outsiders) administers the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns (and selects the 26-member board of) the Hearst Corporation (parent of Hearst Communications which shares the same officers). The foundations shared ownership until tax law changed to prevent this. In 2009, it

324-641: A majority stake in Litton Entertainment . Its CEO, Dave Morgan, was a former employee of Hearst. On January 23, 2017, Hearst announced that it had acquired the business operations of The Pioneer Group from fourth-generation family owners Jack and John Batdorff. The Pioneer Group was a Michigan-based communications network that circulates print and digital news to local communities across the state. In addition to daily newspapers, The Pioneer and Manistee News Advocate , Pioneer published three weekly papers and four local shopper publications, and operated

378-695: A newspaper owner most well known for use of yellow journalism . The Hearst family remains involved in its ownership and management. In 1880, George Hearst , mining entrepreneur and U.S. senator, bought the San Francisco Daily Examiner . In 1887, he turned the Examiner over to his son, William Randolph Hearst , who that year founded the Hearst Corporation. The younger Hearst eventually built readership for Hearst-owned newspapers and magazines from 15,000 to over 20 million. Hearst began to purchase and launched other newspapers, including

432-491: A profitable business in pre-television days, often outselling their morning counterparts featuring stock market information in early editions, while later editions were heavy on sporting news with results of baseball games and horse races. Afternoon papers also benefited from continuous reports from the battlefront during World War II . After the war, however, both television news and suburbs experienced explosive growth; thus, evening papers were more affected than those published in

486-717: A puzzle games website. In April 2024, Hearst acquired the Texas magazines Austin Monthly and Austin Home from Open Sky Media. A new organization called was created Hearst Texas Austin Media to manage the titles along with the Austin Daily newsletter which was created early that year. A non-exhaustive list of its current properties and investments includes: (alphabetical by state, then title) Under William Randolph Hearst's will,

540-576: Is a growing, prosperous and progressive center." The newspaper began operation as Syracuse Evening Telegram on September 25, 1922. The Sunday issue was known as the Syracuse American (also referred to as Syracuse Sunday American ) and hit the newsstands on October 1, 1922. Both were published by Hearst's, Syracuse American Newspaper Corporation. The old Firestone Building at the corner of East Genesee and South State streets in Syracuse

594-718: Is worth at least $ 13 billion. On July 31, 1996, Hearst and the Cisneros Group of Companies of Venezuela announced its plans to launch Locomotion , a Latin American animation cable television channel. On March 27, 1997, Hearst Broadcasting announced that it would merge with Argyle Television Holdings II for $ 525 million, the merger was completed in August to form Hearst-Argyle Television (later renamed as Hearst Television in 2009). In 1999, Hearst sold its Avon and Morrow book publishing activities to HarperCollins . In 2000,

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648-587: The Journal Inquirer and later in October 2023 bought San Antonio Magazine. The company paid $ 150,000 in cash plus an amount equal to 90% of the magazine's accounts receivable In November 2023, Hearst acquired all print and digital operations owned by RJ Media Group, including the Record-Journal , seven weekly newspapers and a digital advertising agency. In December 2023, Hearst bought Puzzmo,

702-706: The Los Angeles Examiner , and The Milwaukee Sentinel , supported the company's money-losing afternoon publications such as the Los Angeles Herald-Express , the New York Journal-American , and the Chicago American . The company sold the latter paper in 1956 to the Chicago Tribune ' s o wners, who changed it to the tabloid-size Chicago Today in 1969 and ceased publication in 1974. In 1960, Hearst also sold

756-642: The New York Herald Tribune and Scripps-Howard 's World-Telegram and Sun to form the New York World Journal Tribune (recalling the names of the city's mid-market dailies), which collapsed after only a few months. The 1962 merger of the Herald-Express and Examiner in Los Angeles led to the termination of many journalists who began to stage a 10-year strike in 1967. The effects of the strike accelerated

810-492: The New York Journal in 1895 and the Los Angeles Examiner in 1903. In 1903, Hearst created Motor magazine, the first title in his company's magazine division. He acquired Cosmopolitan in 1905, and Good Housekeeping in 1911. The company entered the book publishing business in 1913 with the formation of Hearst's International Library. Hearst began producing film features in the mid-1910s, creating one of

864-715: The Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Detroit Times to The Detroit News . After a lengthy strike it sold the Milwaukee Sentinel to the afternoon Milwaukee Journal in 1962. The same year Hearst's Los Angeles papers – the morning Examiner and the afternoon Herald-Express – merged to become the evening Los Angeles Herald-Examiner . The 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike left

918-615: The San Francisco Chronicle , the Houston Chronicle , Cosmopolitan and Esquire . It owns 50% of the A&;E Networks cable network group and 20% of the sports cable network group ESPN , both in partnership with The Walt Disney Company . The conglomerate also owns several business-information companies, including Fitch Group and First Databank . The company was founded by William Randolph Hearst ,

972-751: The Syracuse Journal (1899–1929) which he merged with the Telegram . The name was changed to the Journal-Telegram and was later shortened to Syracuse Journal . The Syracuse Telegram was a sole and separate company from a defunct newspaper called the Syracuse Telegram and Courier which operated during the years 1856 to 1905. The Syracuse Telegram was established in Syracuse, New York , by William Randolph Hearst . It

1026-943: The Washington Times-Herald . That year he also bought the Milwaukee Sentinel from Paul Block (who bought it from the Pfisters in 1929), absorbing his afternoon Wisconsin News into the morning publication. Also in 1939, he sold the Atlanta Georgian to Cox Newspapers, which merged it with the Atlanta Journal . Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany, the Nazis received positive press coverage by Hearst presses and paid ten times

1080-496: The 1922 World Series , the company installed an "automatic board" that showed every play, in detail, "within a few seconds after it is made, every strike, every ball, every base hit, two-base hit, three-base hit, home run, double or triple play, error and run is illustrated just as you would see it on the home grounds." The New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in five games that year. Hearst spared no expense with

1134-584: The Democratic State Convention , held in Syracuse that year. The total construction and remodel of the newly renamed Hearst Building , located at 400 East Genesee Street, spanned a period of 14 days instead of three months, the usual time necessary for such a task. For a period of two weeks, an army of artisans waged a "thrilling and fascinating race against time, working at top speed, morning, night and Sundays" to complete preparation for publication." The mechanical equipment installed in

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1188-651: The Herald-Examiner ). In 1919, Hearst's book publishing division was renamed Cosmopolitan Book. In the 1920s and 1930s, Hearst owned the biggest media conglomerate in the world, which included a number of magazines and newspapers in major cities. Hearst also began acquiring radio stations to complement his papers. Hearst saw financial challenges in the early 1920s, when he was using company funds to build Hearst Castle in San Simeon and support movie production at Cosmopolitan Productions . This eventually led to

1242-623: The Lagardère Group for more than $ 700 million and became a challenger of Time Inc ahead of Condé Nast . In December 2012, Hearst Corporation partnered again with NBCUniversal to launch Esquire Network . On February 20, 2014, Hearst Magazines International appointed Gary Ellis to the new position, Chief Digital Officer. That December, DreamWorks Animation sold a 25% stake in AwesomenessTV for $ 81.25 million to Hearst. In January 2017, Hearst announced that it had acquired

1296-560: The San Antonio Light after it purchased the rival San Antonio Express-News from Murdoch. On November 8, 1990, Hearst Corporation acquired 20% stake of ESPN, Inc. from RJR Nabisco for a price estimated between $ 165 million and $ 175 million. The other 80% has been owned by The Walt Disney Company since 1996. Over the last 25 years, the ESPN investment is said to have accounted for at least 50% of total Hearst Corp profits and

1350-476: The Syracuse Telegram and three other Upstate New York papers in order to "broaden his name recognition across upstate as he prepared to run for governor." The Telegram publishers were pleased with the decision and announced to local readers; "The decision of Mr. Hearst to establish a metropolitan newspaper here indicates his appreciation of the importance of this city and his conviction that it

1404-970: The Syracuse Telegram , Rochester Journal , the Post-Express in Albany, the Albany Times Union and the Oswego Daily Press in Fulton, New York . Hearst purchased the Albany Times-Union in Albany, New York , in November, 1922, soon after a failed 1923 presidential bid. "The chief was still licking his wounds and viewed the Executive Mansion in Albany as a consolation prize." At the same time, he established

1458-516: The American People" : The Syracuse Telegram was published by Hearst organization until November 24, 1925, when final issue, No. 925, was delivered. At that time, the Syracuse Telegram and Sunday American merged with The Journal , an old Syracuse institution that was established on July 4, 1844. In the days of extremely partisan newspapers, it held the reputation as one of the strongest Republican publications in New York State . In

1512-576: The Chandlers' Los Angeles Times , also competitor to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner , which folded in 1989. In 1990, both King Features Entertainment and King Phoenix Entertainment were rebranded under the collective Hearst Entertainment umbrella. King Features Entertainment was renamed to Hearst Entertainment Distribution, while King Phoenix Entertainment was renamed to Hearst Entertainment Productions. In 1993, Hearst closed

1566-899: The Hearst Corp. pulled another "switcheroo" by selling its flagship and "Monarch of the Dailies", the afternoon San Francisco Examiner , and acquiring the long-time competing, but now larger morning paper, San Francisco Chronicle from the Charles de Young family. The San Francisco Examiner is now published as a daily freesheet. In December 2003, Marvel Entertainment acquired Cover Concepts from Hearst, to extend Marvel's demographic reach among public school children. In 2009, A&E Networks acquired Lifetime Entertainment Services , with Hearst ownership increasing to 42%. In 2010, Hearst acquired digital marketing agency iCrossing. In 2011, Hearst absorbed more than 100 magazine titles from

1620-647: The Hearst Corporation began pursuing joint operating agreements (JOAs). It reached the first agreement with the DeYoung family, proprietors of the afternoon San Francisco Chronicle , which began to produce a joint Sunday edition with the Examiner . In turn, the Examiner became an evening publication, absorbing the News-Call-Bulletin . The following year, the Journal-American reached another JOA with another two landmark New York City papers:

1674-549: The Syracuse Sunday American will be metropolitan newspapers in every sense of the term, comparing equally in features with the great newspapers Mr. Hearst owns in Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit and other big cities throughout the United States." Hearst spared no expense with the new headquarters in an attempt to capture the attention of Syracusans. By October 1, 1922, just in time for

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1728-753: The city with no papers for over three months, with the Journal-American one of the earliest strike targets of the Typographical Union. The Boston Record and the Evening American merged in 1961 as the Record-American and in 1964, the Baltimore News-Post became the Baltimore News-American . In 1953, Hearst Magazines bought Sports Afield magazine, which it published until 1999 when it sold

1782-406: The deal; "The purchase of the building was the quickest real estate transaction ever made in Syracuse. At 10 o'clock on the morning of September 9, 1922 a representative of the Hearst organizations began negotiations for the purchase of the building, at 3 o'clock that afternoon the deal was closed." "Mr. Hearst's emissaries rushed the installation of equipment in order to begin publication before

1836-402: The earliest animation studios : the International Film Service , turning characters from Hearst newspaper strips into film characters. Hearst bought the Atlanta Georgian in 1912, the San Francisco Call and the San Francisco Post in 1913, the Boston Advertiser and the Washington Times (unrelated to the present-day paper) in 1917, and the Chicago Herald in 1918 (resulting in

1890-400: The home grounds." The New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in five games that year. The "mammoth scoreboard" was placed on the front of the Hearst Building at State and Genesee streets at a point where thousands could view the entire game. All of the detail about the game was received by wire direct from the ball grounds and each play was reproduced within a few seconds after the play

1944-432: The journal to Robert E. Petersen . In 1958, Hearst's International News Service merged with E.W. Scripps' United Press , forming United Press International as a response to the growth of the Associated Press and Reuters . The following year Scripps-Howard's San Francisco News merged with Hearst's afternoon San Francisco Call-Bulletin . Also in 1959, Hearst acquired the paperback book publisher Avon Books . In 1965,

1998-492: The magazine and book businesses of Rodale in Emmaus, Pennsylvania with some sources reporting the purchase price as about $ 225 million. The transaction was expected to close in January following government approvals. In 2018, Hearst acquired the global health and wellness magazine brands owned by Rodale, Inc. In April 2023, Hearst bought WBBH-TV , an NBC-affiliated television station in Fort Myers, Florida, from Waterman Broadcasting Corporation. In June 2023, Hearst acquired

2052-475: The merger of the magazine Hearst International with Cosmopolitan in 1925. Despite some financial troubles, Hearst began extending its reach in 1921, purchasing the Detroit Times , The Boston Record , and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . Hearst then added the Los Angeles Herald and Washington Herald , as well as the Oakland Post-Enquirer , the Syracuse Telegram and the Rochester Journal-American in 1922. He continued his buying spree into

2106-402: The merger, there were three evening newspapers in Syracuse and "the public was somewhat oversupplied." The merger left two papers in the market: The Herald and the consolidated Journal-Telegram . Like its predecessors, the new publication was delivered in the evening, and the Sunday American on Sunday mornings. It was decided that the Journal operating plant and facilities would be used as

2160-435: The mid-1920s, purchasing the Baltimore News (1923), the San Antonio Light (1924), the Albany Times Union (1924), and The Milwaukee Sentinel (1924). In 1924, Hearst entered the tabloid market in New York City with New York Daily Mirror , meant to compete with the New York Daily News . In addition to print and radio, Hearst established Cosmopolitan Pictures in the early 1920s, distributing his films under

2214-408: The morning, whose circulation remained stable while their afternoon counterparts' sales plummeted. In 1947, Hearst produced an early television newscast for the DuMont Television Network : I.N.S. Telenews , and in 1948 he became the owner of one of the first television stations in the country, WBAL-TV in Baltimore . The earnings of Hearst's three morning papers, the San Francisco Examiner ,

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2268-416: The new headquarters in an attempt to capture the attention of Syracusans. By October 1, 1922, just in time for the 1922 World Series , the company installed an "automatic board" that showed every play, in detail, "within a few seconds after it is made, every strike, every ball, every base hit, two-base hit, three-base hit, home run, double or triple play, error and run is illustrated just as you would see it on

2322-446: The newly created Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . In 1929, Hearst and MGM created the Hearst Metrotone newsreels. The Great Depression hurt Hearst and his publications. Cosmopolitan Book was sold to Farrar & Rinehart in 1931. After two years of leasing them to Eleanor "Cissy" Patterson (of the McCormick-Patterson family that owned the Chicago Tribune ), Hearst sold her The Washington Times and Herald in 1939; she merged them to form

2376-412: The office and publishing plant for the combined effort. The Hearst Building at the corner of Genesee and State streets was sold and 100 Hearst employees lost their jobs. On December 5, 1925, the name was changed to the Journal-Telegram which later reverted to Syracuse Journal . It was published by Syracuse Newspapers Inc., which was established at the time of the merger. The new paper retained all of

2430-439: The pace of the company's demise, with the Herald Examiner ceasing publication November 2, 1989. Hearst moved into hardcover publishing by acquiring Arbor House in 1978 and William Morrow and Company in 1981. In 1982, the company sold the Boston Herald American — the result of the 1972 merger of Hearst's Record-American & Advertiser with the Herald-Traveler — to Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation , which renamed

2484-421: The paper as The Boston Herald , competing to this day with The Boston Globe . In 1986, Hearst bought the Houston Chronicle and that same year closed the 213-year-old Baltimore News-American after a failed attempt to reach a JOA with A.S. Abell Company , the family who published The Baltimore Sun since its founding in 1837. Abell sold the paper several days later to the Times-Mirror syndicate of

2538-556: The plant included a thirty-two page Duplex press, fifteen Intertype typesetting machines, a large stereotyping machine and scores of cases of display type." The business office was headed by J. A. Easton, business manager. In conformity with Hearst's company policy, "all the men holding executive positions will be Syracusans, and none but Syracuse workmen will be employed to produce the metropolitan Syracuse papers which are eagerly awaited." Hearst advertised his new publications aggressively in local newspapers; "The Syracuse Telegram and

2592-493: The standard subscription rate for the INS wire service belonging to Hearst. William Randolph Hearst personally instructed his reporters in Germany to only give positive coverage to Hitler and the Nazis, and fired journalists who refused to write stories favourable of German fascism. During this time, high ranking Nazis were given space to write articles in Hearst press newspapers, including Hermann Göring and Alfred Rosenberg . Hearst, with his chain now owned by his creditors after

2646-406: The three years that William Randolph Hearst published the Syracuse Telegram , he suffered an estimated loss of over $ 500 a day. Hearst never paid cash for anything. He had borrowed recklessly during the early 1920s to fund his newspaper empire. By the end of 1922, he had exhausted his working capital to pay off existing debt obligations and was still $ 500,000 short of meeting them all. The merger

2700-425: Was accomplished after Hearst acquired a controlling interest in The Journal for nearly $ 1,000,000. in November 1925. The transaction was carried out, and Hearst "sold" the publication for $ 1,000,000 to Syracuse Newspapers, Inc., a new corporation and publisher of the consolidated paper. After the merger was completed, Hearst was a director of the company and still played a major role in the decision making. Before

2754-648: Was estimated to be the largest private company managed by trustees in this way. As of 2017, the trustees are: The trust dissolves when all family members alive at the time of Hearst's death in August 1951 have died. Business information Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 189790246 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:33:59 GMT Syracuse Telegram In November, 1925, Hearst gained controlling interest in another Syracuse daily,

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2808-431: Was later consolidated with the Syracuse Journal , another Hearst newspaper in Syracuse. By 1922, Syracuse was the thirteenth city in which Hearst established a daily metropolitan newspaper. His papers had an aggregate circulation of more than 6,000,000 and consumed more than twelve percent of all the newsprint paper used in the United States. Hearst took full advantage of the economic boom, and starting in 1921, he went on

2862-459: Was made. "The big scoreboard will be operated by expert baseball players, and nothing will be missed in any of the games that is worth seeing." Chief editor was R. C. McCabe. Members of the Editorial Department included: The new Syracuse Telegram logo appeared by mid-September, 1922: At that same time, Hearst began publishing the Sunday edition, Syracuse American with "Character, Quality, Enterprise and Accuracy – An American Newspaper for

2916-472: Was purchased to house both newspapers. Hearst paid $ 150,000 for the building which was described as "a large and admirably adapted building in the heart of the Syracuse business district." He also spent an additional $ 150,000 on the purchase and installation of machinery, presses, typesetting machinery and remodeling the building to make it a "thoroughly modern and a completely equipped newspaper publishing plant." According to agent, Q. J. Coughlin, who handled

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