Hearst Communications - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan, September 2006 | |
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Media |
Founded | March 4, 1887 San Francisco, California, United States |
Founder | William Randolph Hearst |
Headquarters | Hearst Tower 300 W. 57th Street New York, NY 10019 U.S. |
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Owner | Hearst family |
Number of employees | 20,000 (2016) |
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Website | www |
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The Hearst Corporation, officially called Hearst Communications, is a business conglomerate that has 360 subsidiary companies. It was founded by William Randolph Hearst.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Hearst". Forbes. Retrieved August 31, 2017.
- ↑ "The Hearst Corporation". Institute for Media and Communication Policy. October 19, 2017. Archived from the original on January 24, 2023. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
Further reading
[change | change source]- Carlisle, Rodney. "The Foreign Policy Views of an Isolationist Press Lord: WR Hearst and the International Crisis, 1936-41." Journal of Contemporary History 9.3 (1974): 217–227.
- Nasaw, David. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. (2000). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-82759-0., a prominent scholarly biography.
- Pizzitola, Louis. Hearst over Hollywood: power, passion, and propaganda in the movies (Columbia UP, 2002).
- Procter, Ben H. William Randolph Hearst: Final Edition, 1911-1951. (Oxford UP 2007).
- Whyte, Kenneth. The uncrowned king: The sensational rise of William Randolph Hearst (2009).
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