But William Randolph Hearst III has also inherited some of his Grandfather's literary genes.(Despite the Yellow Journalist tag, Hearst the First was undeniably a heckuva writer.) Under Will Hearst's stewardship, the Examiner enjoyed a reputation for fine, punchy writing and he even wrote the forward to a book about a 19th-century comic strip called Hogan ' s Alley.

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By jumping in now they secure a brief market advantage over rival Hearst, which will introduce realistic sub pricing in July.

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Ms. EVE BURTON (The Hearst Corporation): I will tell you that we have, in the last eight months, gotten 54 subpoenas around the country at our newspapers and our broadcast stations.

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This month Ford is putting ads for its Flex crossover SUV on multicolored E Ink-made plastic sheets that will go on the cover of 100, 000 newsstand issues of Esquire, the Hearst magazine.

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