The New York World was a newspaper published in New York City from 1860 to 1931. The paper played a major role in the history of American newspapers as a leading national voice of the Democratic Party
New York World cover announcing conquest of Dewey of the Spanish Navy in the Battle of Manila Bay in May 1898
Advertising poster for the July 28, 1895, New York Sunday World
Special Christmas 1899 section featuring a story by Mark Twain
1904 political cartoon of President Theodore Roosevelt
In journalism, yellow journalism is the use of eye-catching headlines and sensationalized exaggerations for increased sales, while the yellow press are American newspapers which do so. This term is ch
New York World
…of American newspapers as a leading national voice of the Democratic Party. From 1883 to 1911 under publisher Joseph Pulitzer, it was a pioneer in yellow journalism, capturing readers' attention with sensation, sports, sex and scandal and pushing its daily circulation to the one-million mark. It was sold in 1931…
The Yellow Kid, drawn by Richard F. Outcault, appeared first in Pulitzer's New York World and then moved to Hearst's New York Journal.
"Evil spirits", such as "Paid Puffery" and "Suggestiveness", spew from "the modern daily press" in this Puck cartoon of November 21, 1888.
"The Yellow Press", by L. M. Glackens, portrays William Randolph Hearst as a jester distributing sensational stories.
"Yellow journalism" cartoon about the Spanish–American War of 1898. The newspaper publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst are both attired as the Yellow Kid comics character of the time, and are competitively claiming ownership of the war.