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Hearst Communications, Inc.

Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan, September 2006
Company type	Private
Industry	Media
Founded	March 4, 1887; 137 years ago (1887-03-04) San Francisco, California, United States
Founder	William Randolph Hearst
Headquarters	Hearst Tower 300 W. 57th Street New York, NY 10019 U.S.
Key people	William Randolph Hearst III (chairman) Frank A. Bennack Jr. (executive vice chairman) Steve Swartz (president and CEO)
Revenue	US$11.4 billion (2019)
Owner	Hearst family
Number of employees	20,000 (2016)
Divisions	Hearst Television Hearst Magazines Hearst Ventures Hearst Business Media Hearst Entertainment & Syndication Hearst Newspapers
Subsidiaries	Fitch Ratings First Databank A&E Networks (50%) ESPN Inc. (20%) King Features Syndicate NorthSouth Productions (50%)
Website	www.hearst.com
Footnotes / references [1][2]

The Hearst Corporation, officially called Hearst Communications, is a business conglomerate that has 360 subsidiary companies. It was founded by William Randolph Hearst.

• 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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