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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Louis.
He knew that New York was the center of the world.
It's the capital of the world.
He wanted to compete on the biggest stage.
He was just biding his time until he could buy a New York paper.
Now, Jay Gold at this time, who's another robber baron, one I've done multiple episodes on and will do multiple episodes on in the future, accidentally owns a newspaper.
Jay Gold had unintentionally acquired the paper when he purchased the assets of another corporation.
And so it says, J. Gold decided to rid himself of the burdensome New York world, which is the name of the paper.
An even greater sin in the eyes of a railroad industrial baron was that it had never made a dime since he acquired it four years earlier.
I never cared anything about the paper, Gold said.
The world had an anemic circulation of 15,000 and was losing money every week.
And yet it was still a very valuable asset, one that Pulitzer was going to go half a million dollars into debt to acquire.
Signing the contract put Pulitzer nearly $500,000 in debt.
Less than five years after spending his last few thousand dollars to buy the bankrupt dispatch, he was betting he could repeat his success on a far grander scale.
And the reason he was able to do this and to move to New York is because he realized he could manage his existing newspaper remotely, says the Post-Dispatch, practically ran itself.
But to be sure that it remained on track, Pulitzer received daily pre-printed one-page reports that showed him at a glance all the essential information, such as circulation, advertising, expenses, and the times when the presses started and ended their runs.
He was forever asking the men who managed the business side of his operations to be brief in responding to his ceaseless queries.
In his words, he wanted the information in a nutshell.
And so now he's half a million dollars into debt and he's talking to his wife.
He says he confessed his anxiety to Kate.
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