Biography:

The New York World was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1860 to 1931. The World was originally available as a penny paper that supported President Abraham Lincoln’s action in the American Civil War.   Circulation of the New York World dramatically increased after Joseph Pulitzer purchased it in 1883.  When William Randolph Hearst bought the competing New York Journal in 1895, he convinced many of Pulitzer’s Sunday newspaper staff to join the Journal.  Rivalry between the William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer sparked an era of publicity stunts and yellow journalism.  In 1931 the World was combined with the New York Evening Telegram (founded 1867) to become the New York World-Telegram. It lasted until 1966 until merging again to create the New York World-Journal-Tribune which closed in 1967.