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Pulitzer, Inc.
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Founded by legendary yellow-journalist Joseph Pulitzer (who also funded the Pulitzer Prizes, which are not affiliated with the company), Pulitzer Inc., owned 14 daily newspapers across the United States. Its papers included the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), which was published by its Star Publishing Company subsidiary.
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Prior to 1999, Pulitzer owned a sizable television group, whose stations are listed in the table below:
| Current DMA Rank |
Market | Station | Years Owned | Currently |
| 19. | Orlando - Daytona Beach - Melbourne | WESH 2 | 1993-99 | NBC network affiliate owned by Hearst-Argyle Television |
| 21. | St. Louis | KSD-TV 5** | 1947-83 | NBC network affiliate KSDK owned by Gannett Company |
| 36. | Greenville - Spartanburg - Asheville | WFBC-TV/ WYFF 4 |
1985-99 | NBC network affiliate owned by Hearst-Argyle Television |
| 41. | Harrisburg - Lancaster - York | WGAL 8 | 1979-99 | NBC network affiliate owned by Hearst-Argyle Television |
| 44. | Albuquerque - Santa Fe | KOAT 7 | 1969-99 | ABC network affiliate owned by Hearst-Argyle Television |
| 46. | Greensboro - Winston-Salem - High Point | WXII-TV 12 | 1983-99 | NBC network affiliate owned by Hearst-Argyle Television |
| 48. | Louisville | WLKY-TV 32 | 1983-99 | CBS network affiliate owned by Hearst-Argyle Television |
| 52. | Providence - New Bedford | WTEV-TV/ WLNE-TV 6 |
1979-84 | ABC network affiliate owned by Global Broadcasting |
| 53. | New Orleans | WDSU 6 | 1989-99 | NBC network affiliate owned by Hearst-Argyle Television |
| 71. | Des Moines - Ames | KCCI 8 | 1993-99 | CBS network affiliate owned by Hearst-Argyle Television |
| 75. | Omaha - Council Bluffs | KETV 7 | 1976-99 | ABC network affiliate owned by Hearst-Argyle Television |
| 107. | Fort Wayne | WPTA 21 | 1983-89 | ABC network affiliate owned by Malara Broadcasting and operated by Granite Broadcasting Corporation |
** KSD-TV was the only television station built and signed-on by Pulitzer.
In 1998, Pulitzer announced the sale of its entire television group to Hearst-Argyle Television, with the sale closing in March of 1999.
Pulitzer Inc. was sold to Lee Enterprises for $1.46 billion on June 3, 2005 (although both Gannett and the E.W. Scripps Company had expressed interest in buying the Pulitzer company [1] prior to Lee's acquisition of the company).
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