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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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).