<Li> Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein--breakthrough journalists for Washington Post on the Watergate scandal; authors of All the President's Men, non-fiction account of the scandal </Li> <P> Yellow journalism is a pejorative reference to journalism that features scandal - mongering, sensationalism, jingoism or other unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or individual journalists . </P> <P> The term originated during the circulation battles between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal from 1895 to about 1898, and can refer specifically to this period . Both papers were accused by critics of sensationalizing the news in order to drive up circulation, although the newspapers did serious reporting as well . The New York Press coined the term "Yellow Journalism" in early 1897 to describe the papers of Pulitzer and Hearst . </P> <P> Joseph Pulitzer purchased the World in 1882 after making the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the dominant daily in that city . The publisher had gotten his start editing a German - language publication in St. Louis, and saw a great untapped market in the nation's immigrant classes . Pulitzer strove to make The World an entertaining read, and filled his paper with pictures, games and contests that drew in readers, particularly those who used English as a second language . Crime stories filled many of the pages, with headlines like "Was He A Suicide?" and "Screaming for Mercy". Pulitzer provided a bargain: he only charged two cents per issue but gave readers eight and sometimes 12 pages of information (the only other two - cent paper in the city never exceeded four pages). </P>

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