Editing Hearst Communications (section)

=== Formative years ===
In 1880, [[George Hearst]], mining entrepreneur and U.S. senator, bought the ''[[The San Francisco Examiner|San Francisco Daily Examiner]].''<ref name="nelson">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-george-hearst-20120627-story.html|title=George Randolph Hearst Jr. dies at 84; L.A. Herald-Examiner publisher|last=Nelson|first=Valerie J.|date=June 27, 2012|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 16, 2018}}</ref> In 1887, he turned the ''Examiner'' over to his son, [[William Randolph Hearst]], who that year founded the Hearst Corporation. The younger Hearst eventually built readership for Hearst-owned newspapers and magazines from 15,000 to over 20 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/07/02/reviews/000702.02eva.html|title=Press Baron's Progress|last=Evans|first=Harold|date=July 2, 2000|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 28, 2018}}</ref> Hearst began to purchase and launch other newspapers, including the ''[[New York Journal-American|New York Journal]]'' in 1895<ref>{{cite episode |url=https://www.pbs.org/crucible/bio_hearst.html |title=Yellow Journalism: William Randolph Hearst |series=Crucible of Empire: The Spanish–American War |airdate=August 23, 1999 |work=[[PBS]] |access-date=August 28, 2018}}</ref> and the ''[[Los Angeles Herald Examiner|Los Angeles Examiner]]'' in 1903.<ref name="nelson" />

In 1903, Hearst created ''[[Motor (American magazine)|Motor]]'' magazine, the first title in his company's magazine division. He acquired ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' in 1905, and ''[[Good Housekeeping]]'' in 1911.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB105113395814317200|title=Hearst Magazines Manage To Thrive in Tough Market|last=Rose|first=Matthew|date=April 24, 2003|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=July 16, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Women's Periodicals in the United States: Consumer Magazines |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sld1Jj0jM7cC&q=Women%27s+Periodicals+in+the+United+States:+Consumer+Magazines |last=Lueck |first=Therese |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1995 |isbn=978-0313286315 |page=492}}</ref> The company entered the book publishing business in 1913 with the formation of Hearst's International Library.<ref name="cosmobook">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GfCEtAEACAAJ&q=editions:WaCJdeNwHw4C|title=American literary publishing houses, 1900–1980. Trade and paperback|last1=Murray|first1=Timothy D.|last2=Mills|first2=Theodora|publisher=Gale Research Co|year=1986|isbn=978-0-8103-1724-6|editor-last=Dzwonkoski|editor-first=Peter|series=Dictionary of literary biography|location=Detroit|pages=91–92|chapter=Cosmopolitan Book Corporation}}</ref><ref>[https://seriesofseries.com/hearsts-international-library/ Hearst's International Library], seriesofseries.com. Retrieved April 13, 2020.</ref> Hearst began producing film features in the mid-1910s, creating one of the earliest [[animation studio]]s: the [[International Film Service]], turning characters from Hearst newspaper strips into film characters.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart10/hearst.html |title=William Randolph Hearst and the Comics |first=Joseph |last=F. D'Angelo |website=Penn State University:Integrative Arts 10 |access-date=July 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701145126/http://www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart10/hearst.html |archive-date=July 1, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Hearst bought the ''[[Atlanta Georgian]]'' in 1912,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/northside_sandy_springs/opinion/hearst-family-left-distinct-mark-on-atlanta-buckhead/article_26f0eef6-d246-11e8-bd66-d30904ebfdc3.html|title=Hearst family left distinct mark on Atlanta, Buckhead|last=Kennedy|first=Thornton|website=MDJOnline.com|date=October 17, 2018 |language=en|access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref> the ''[[San Francisco Call]]'' and the ''San Francisco Post'' in 1913, the ''[[Boston Advertiser]]'' and the ''[[Washington Times (1894–1939)|Washington Times]]'' (unrelated to the present-day paper) in 1917, and the ''[[Chicago Herald (1914–18)|Chicago Herald]]'' in 1918 (resulting in the ''Herald-Examiner'').<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Hearst Newspapers |first1=Mark R. |last1=Wilson |first2=Stephen R. |last2=Porter |first3=Janice L. |last3=Reiff |name-list-style=amp |year=2005 |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Chicago]] |isbn=978-0226310152}}</ref>

In 1919, Hearst's book publishing division was renamed Cosmopolitan Book.<ref name="cosmobook" />