Rob Reid
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1,484 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Rob Reid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The newspaper he bought had far too few subscribers to make it viable as a business.
What the corporation owned was what caught Pulitzer's attention.
This German newspaper was a member of the AP, the Associated Press.
Because the AP restricted its news items to its members, a membership in AP was a valuable asset.
Those that were not members were excluded from a vast source of national and international news.
Membership in AP gave a newspaper a tremendous competitive advantage.
In St.
Louis, all the major German newspapers were members of the AP, except the St.
Louis Globe.
And so he goes to the owners of the St.
Louis Globe with this proposal.
If they bought the entire corporation, they would gain membership in AP.
They agree in less than 48 hours after he buys this small, useless German language newspaper at auction, he makes about $20,000.
So now he's got about $50,000 in savings and time to figure out what he's going to do next.
And interesting enough, this next five-year period of his life is one of the most depressing because he's got a lot of money, but he has no purpose.
He has no job.
And so his first idea, again, speaks to this unlimited ambition that he had from a very young age, is he wanted to buy a newspaper in New York.
He's going to be unsuccessful doing so for quite a while.
He actually has to start by buying a newspaper in St.
Louis, which he's going to do in a few years from now.
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