How did William Randolph Hearst make once struggling newspapers like the San Francisco Examiner and New York Morning Journal Profitable?

For the San Franciso Examiner, Hearst remade the paper into a blend of reformist investigative reporting and lurid sensationalism, and within two years it was showing a profit.

The New York Journal (afterward New York Journal-American) soon attained an unprecedented circulation as a result of its use of many illustrations,   magazine sections, and glaring headlines; its sensational articles on crime and pseudoscientific topics; its bellicosity in foreign affairs; and its reduced price of one cent.

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