The term yellow journalism originates from a New York World comic strip featuring “the Yellow Kid.” When William Randolph Hearst, publisher of the New York Journal, hired away the strip’s artist, Joseph Pulitzer hired a different artist to do a competing strip. The rivalry between the Yellow Kid comics symbolized the competition for audience between Pulitzer and Hearst.
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