Gotham's Terrific New Year's Eve

Publisher William Randolph Hearst was at the peak of his most innovative period 113 years ago, when he organized a New Yearâ??s Eve bash for Gotham in 1897.

 

The year then closing had been a stunning one for Hearst and his flagship newspaper, the New York Journal.

 

He had introduced in 1897 a hearty brand of activist journalism: The â??journalism of action,â? the Journal called it. And it meant that newspapers had an obligation to inject themselves routinely and conspicuously into public life, to address the ills that government would not or could not confront.

 

Rivals scoffed and sneered; â??yellow journalismâ? they called it.

 

But the stunning character of Hearstâ??s â??journalism of actionâ? had been demonstrated in October 1897 with the rescue of Evangelina Cisneros, a 19-year-old political prisoner jailed by Spanish authorities in Havana for months without charges.

 

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