Editing Hearst Communications (section)

=== Peak era ===
[[Image:HEARST2.JPG|thumb|right|An ad asking automakers to place ads in Hearst chain, noting their circulation]]
In the 1920s and 1930s, Hearst owned the biggest media conglomerate in the world, which included a number of magazines and newspapers in major cities. Hearst also began acquiring radio stations to complement his papers.<ref>{{cite episode| url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?107196-1/william-randolph-hearst-early-years| title=William Randolph Hearst: The Early Years| network=[[C-SPAN2]]| series=[[Book TV]]| date=June 12, 1998| credits=Brian Lamb, presenter; Ben Procter| access-date=August 28, 2018}}</ref> Hearst saw financial challenges in the early 1920s, when he was using company funds to build [[Hearst Castle]] in [[San Simeon]] and support movie production at [[Cosmopolitan Productions]]. This eventually led to the merger of the magazine ''Hearst International'' with ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' in 1925.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9n6Qh17H6QcC&q=hearst+merges+international+with+cosmopolitan+1925&pg=PT205| title=The Improbable First Century of Cosmopolitan Magazine| last=Landers| first=James| date=November 1, 2010| publisher=University of Missouri Press| isbn=978-0826272331| language=en}}</ref>

Despite some financial troubles, Hearst began extending its reach in 1921, purchasing the ''[[Detroit Times]]'', ''[[Boston Herald#The Boston American|The Boston Record]],'' and the ''[[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]].''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-Reign-of-S-F-s-Monarch-of-the-Dailies-2914679.php|title=The Reign of S.F.'s 'Monarch of the Dailies' / Hearst media empire started with Examiner|last1=Taylor|first1=Michael|last2=Writer|first2=Chronicle Staff|date=August 7, 1999|website=SFGate|access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref> Hearst then added the ''[[Los Angeles Herald]]'' and ''[[Washington Herald]],'' as well as the ''Oakland Post-Enquirer'', the ''[[Syracuse Telegram]]'' and the ''[[Rochester Journal-American]]'' in 1922. He continued his buying spree into the mid-1920s, purchasing the ''[[Baltimore News-American|Baltimore News]]'' (1923), the ''[[San Antonio Light]]'' (1924), the ''[[Times Union (Albany)|Albany Times Union]]'' (1924),<ref name=":0" /> and ''[[The Milwaukee Sentinel]]'' (1924). In 1924, Hearst entered the tabloid market in [[New York City]] with ''[[New York Daily Mirror]]'', meant to compete with the ''[[New York Daily News]]''.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ET4uTW2k-9QC&q=%22syracuse+telegram%22+hearst&pg=PA315| title=The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst| last=Nasaw| first=David| date=2001| publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt| isbn=978-0618154463| pages=320–322| language=en}}</ref>

In addition to print and radio, Hearst established [[Cosmopolitan Productions|Cosmopolitan Pictures]] in the early 1920s, distributing his films under the newly created [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/you_must_remember_this/2015/09/marion_davies_actress_and_mistress_of_william_randolph_hearst_was_portrayed.html| title=The Mistress, the Magnate, and the Genius| last=Longworth| first=Karina| date=September 24, 2015| magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]| access-date=August 28, 2018| issn=1091-2339}}</ref> In 1929, Hearst and [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]] created the Hearst Metrotone newsreels.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/hearst| title=Hearst Metrotone News Collection| website=UCLA Film & Television Archive|access-date=July 16, 2018}}</ref>