Pulitzer Prize Recipient Journalist. William Randolph Hearst Jr. began his newspaper career as a police reporter for the "New York American," a newspaper owned by his father. Born the second of five sons of William Randolph Hearst Sr, he was one of the heirs of his grandfather, a mining tycoon, and his father's multi-media empire wealth, which gave him vast opportunities. Working at odd jobs at one of his father's newspapers, he had on-the-job training during summer vacations from school. Although he did not graduate, he attended University of California at Berkeley for two years after graduating from a military school. At the age of 29, he was named publisher of the "New York American" in 1936, the year before the newspaper became the "New York Journal-American" after a merger. He played a critical role in the reorganization of the Hearst newspapers during the Great Depression, by modernizing the look of the newspaper and covering local news. During World War II from 1943 to 1945, he was a war correspondent in Europe and North Africa. After the war, he gained more newspapers to manage. In 1955, he became Editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers upon his father's 1951 death and holding that position for forty years. He and his team managed 18 newspapers and 11 magazines. Hearst was co-recipient with Frank Conniff of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting of the interviews with Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev and other associated commentaries in 1955. They published a series of eight articles from these Khrushchev interviews. In 1957 he received the Overseas Press Award for the Moscow reporting and in 1960 he published his book "Ask Me Anything: Our Adventures with Khrushchev." Hearst also wrote a Sunday conservative editorial for 40 years. Like his father, he was an outspoken anti-Communist, supporting Senator Joseph McCarty's crusade in newspaper print. He was instrumental in the family gaining control of Hearst Corporation in a reorganization. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. After his niece Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in 1974 and held for ransom by the radical terrorist group the Symbi-onese Liberation Army, he retreated from public life. He married three times and had two sons with his third wife. His sons have followed him in publishing careers. At his death, he had been a widower for two years. In 1991 he published "The Hearsts: Father and Son", in which he acknowledged that his own successful career had been overshadowed by that of his father's multi-faceted spectacular career. Other books he published include "A Journalist from India, at Home in the World: Oral History Transcript" in 1983 and "How Russia is Winning the Peace" in 1958.