2025 Whitehall Lecture Series – “The New York Newspaper Publishers of the Gilded Age: William Randolph Hearst”

The Annual Whitehall Lecture Series presents The New York Newspaper Publishers of the Gilded Age, at 3:00 p.m. each Sunday from February 2nd to March 2nd. Experts and authors will speak about the publishers that were responsible for producing the newspapers of New York during the Gilded Age.

William Randolph Hearst built the foundation of one of the nation’s greatest media empires. In 1895, the young newspaperman moved from San Francisco to New York City to create the most successful daily of his time, the New York Journal, and compete with Joseph Pulitzer, the powerful journalist and newspaper publisher of the New York World. The two battled through the 1896 election and the Spanish-American War. The rivalry between the two papers gave rise to yellow journalism, a style of reporting that uses sensationalized news and conspicuous headlines to attract readers.

When possible, each lecture will be followed by a book signing with the author.