BAJM ASSIGNMENTS, FIRST SEMESTER, FALL 2009
BJ0001 COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Guidelines: Read the questions given below and answer the same Answer all the questions SET 1 1. Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow(10 marks) Joseph Pulitzer (April 10, 1847 – October 29, 1911) was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism . Pulitzer was born in Makó , Hungary , Pulitzer sought a military career, but was turned down by the Austrian army for frail health and poor eyesight. He emigrated to the United States in 1864 to serve in the American Civil War. After the war he settled in St. Louis , Missouri , where in 1868 he began working for a German-language daily newspaper, the Westliche Post. He joined the Republican Party and was elected to the Missouri State Assembly in 1869. In 1872, Pulitzer purchased the Post for $3...