与当今拥有120亿美元资产的报业大王鲁珀特·默多克相比,约瑟夫·普利策2.8亿美元的资产似乎少了点。但普利策却是世界公认的报业巨子。普利策比默多克几乎早出生了一个世纪。初到美国的普利策,一文不名,两手空空,凭着他不懈的努力,陆续购买了《西方邮报》《圣路易斯快邮报》和《纽约世界报》,并对报纸进行了一系列改革,使它们成为当时美国著名的大报。在他的新闻生涯中,他为使新闻成为社会公认的一门学科,做出了杰出的贡献。他的一生标志着美国新闻学的创立和新闻事业的迅猛发展。他曾捐赠200万美元创办了美国第一所新闻学院——名扬世界的哥伦比亚新闻学院。普利策逝世后,以他的名字命名的普利策新闻奖是美国最高新闻奖,受世人瞩目。 Compared with Rupert Murdoch, the newspaper chief with $ 12 billion in assets today, Joseph Pulitzer’s $ 280 million asset appears to be missing. But Pulitzer is recognized as a world newspaper giant. Pulitzer was born almost a century earlier than Murdoch. Pulitzer, who first arrived in the United States, was out of his name and his name was empty-handed. With his tireless efforts, he successively purchased the Western Post, the St. Louis Post and the New York Monde and made a series of reforms to the newspaper so that They became the famous American newspaper at the time. In his career as a journalist, he made outstanding contributions to making journalism a recognized social science. His life marks the founding of American journalism and the rapid development of journalism. He has donated 2 million U.S. dollars to found Columbia News College, the world’s first journalism school. After Pulitzer’s death, the Pulitzer Prize, named after him, was the highest news prize in the United States and received world attention.