Rob Reid
speaker
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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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 4 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 2.
Appearances
For no man can long work for me with satisfaction to himself or myself unless he has courage.
It wasn't long before the old timers couldn't take it anymore and new faces, often younger, appeared.
And these new, younger, more excited workers knew they were working for a formidable individual.
There was a sense that Pulitzer was pushing the world forward.
We in the office felt from the first that this remarkable personality, which had so impressed us upon its arrival inside the building, would soon make its impress felt on the greater cosmopolitan public of New York.
and in time, the country.
The world began on its path to becoming the most widely read newspaper in American history.
Joseph would say that the headline was the lure and the copy was the hook.
He admonished his staff to write in a buoyant style, comprising simple nouns, bright verbs, and short, punchy sentences.
If there was a Pulitzer formula, it was a story written so simply that anyone could read it and so colorfully that no one would forget it.
Pulitzer was obsessed with details.
I love this part.
He says that vagueness was a sin.
So this is what he means by that.
A tall man was not just referred to as a tall man.
He was six foot two inches tall.
A beautiful woman wasn't referred to as a beautiful woman.
A beautiful woman had auburn hair, hazel eyes, and demure lips that occasionally turned upward in a coy smile.
Vagueness to Pulitzer was a sin.
Pulitzer practically lived at the office.
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