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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On newsstands and in the arms of newsboys, the gray, unbroken front pages of the city's newspapers were indistinguishable from each other.
Pulitzer found every excuse possible to add illustrations to make his paper stand out.
It also greatly increased his circulation because at the time, he says, a great many people in the world were required to be educated through their eyes.
Pulitzer was mindful that many of the readers who pursued were struggling to learn English.
He also had a bunch of unusual ideas that his competitors not.
He said that newspapers should make enemies constantly, that the more enemies we have, the better.
And he says the most valuable and most successful paper will generally be that which has the most enemies.
And then he was really good at doing two things simultaneously, which is getting attention that would then increase the circulation of his paper.
So at the time, which I didn't even know this, he's responsible for raising the money so the Statue of Liberty could be erected in New York.
So at the time, the Statue of Liberty was becoming a major embarrassment because France paid for the statue itself.
But the United States was supposed to be responsible for paying for the pedestal that the statue rests upon.
And by the time Pulitzer gets involved, the fundraising had essentially died out.
They were short by over $100,000.
And so he does an early version of essentially mass crowdfunding.
So he launches this nationwide campaign through his newspaper.
And so the way he does this, he says, hey, it doesn't matter if you give a penny.
If you give two pennies to this, every single person that donates, I will print your name in my newspaper.
Over 120,000 people donate.
And in less than five months, Pulitzer raises all the money required.
And the book says the public service also turned out to be good for business.
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