Hearst then added the Los Angeles Herald and Washington Herald, as well as the Oakland Post-Enquirer, the Syracuse Telegram and the Rochester Journal-American in 1922. ĭespite some financial troubles, Hearst began extending its reach in 1921, purchasing the Detroit Times, The Boston Record, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This eventually led to the merger of the magazine Hearst International with Cosmopolitan in 1925.
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Hearst saw financial challenges in the early 1920s, when he was using company funds to build Hearst Castle in San Simeon and support movie production at Cosmopolitan Productions. Hearst also began acquiring radio stations to complement his papers. In the 1920s and 1930s, Hearst owned the biggest media conglomerate in the world, which included a number of magazines and newspapers in major cities. The peak era Īn ad asking automakers to place ads in Hearst chain, noting their circulation In 1919, Hearst's book publishing division was renamed Cosmopolitan Book. Hearst bought the Atlanta Georgian in 1912, the San Francisco Call and the San Francisco Post in 1913, the Boston Advertiser and the Washington Times (unrelated to the present-day paper) in 1917, and the Chicago Herald in 1918 (resulting in the Herald-Examiner). Hearst began producing film features in the mid-1910s, creating one of the earliest animation studios: the International Film Service, turning characters from Hearst newspaper strips into film characters. The company entered the book publishing business in 1913 with the formation of Hearst's International Library. He acquired Cosmopolitan in 1905, and Good Housekeeping in 1911. In 1903, Hearst created Motor magazine, the first title in his company's magazine division. Hearst began to purchase and launched other newspapers, including the New York Journal in 1895 and the Los Angeles Examiner in 1903. The younger Hearst eventually built readership for Hearst-owned newspapers and magazines from 15,000 to over 20 million.
In 1887, he turned the Examiner over to his son, William Randolph Hearst, who that year founded the Hearst Corporation. senator, bought the San Francisco Daily Examiner. In 1880, George Hearst, mining entrepreneur and U.S.
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