...memorandum which dealt acutely with the kind of news he thought a metropolitan daily should print: What is original, distinctive, dramatic, romantic,...confidence of the people in the truth of the stories and the character of the paper for reliability and scrupulous cleanness. That was not all Pulitzer...

...government corruption, white slavery scandals, and other exciting topics. Pulitzer vowed to concentrate on "what is original, distinctive, dramatic, romantic,...curious, quaint, humorous, odd, apt to be talked about" (Bessie 1938, 44). By 1886, the World's 250,000 daily circulation was the largest ever, and the Sun...

...philosophies in terse maxims punctuated hy exclamation points. In one, he arged the staff to focus "on what is original, distinctive, dramatic, romantic,...thrilling, unique, curious, quaint, humorous, odd, apt to he talked ahout." Other memos drilled home the Pulitzer dictums that would hecome part of the training...

...philosophies in terse maxims punctuated by exclamation points. In one, he urged the staff to focus "on what is original, distinctive, dramatic, romantic,...curious, quaint, humorous, odd, apt to be talked about." Other memos drilled home the Pulitzer dictums that would become part of the training for generations...