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    How Free-Press Champion Joseph Pulitzer Became The Father Of Modern American Journalism

    The new PBS documentary "Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People" looks at Pulitzer's life and how he used the free press to defend American democracy.
    Apr 12, 2019 2 minutes
    Joseph Pulitzer, the late publisher of the New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was considered one of America's outstanding journalists at the time of his death in 1911. (AP Photo)

    The PBS show “American Masters” will profile a man on Friday night who wasn’t born in America — he was a Jewish immigrant from Hungary — but who became one of the fiercest defenders of American democracy.

    His tool? A free press.

    The new documentary “” looks at the life of Joseph Pulitzer, the man behind the award that

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