Media Wall Of Fame

 

EUGENE C. PULLIAM '10

Inducted: DECEMBER 1, 1995

Eugene C. Pulliam launched his journalism/business career at the age of six, delivering the Iolo Register in Kansas.

The necessity to earn his way through school led him to continue that career by establishing the DePauw Daily after he enrolled in 1906.

Following his DePauw years, Pulliam joined the Kansas City Star as a reporter where, under the guidance of the great Colonel William Rockhill Nelson, he learned that a publisher has to earn and keep the respect of reporters and fend off outside pressure or threats against printing the news.

When he was 23, Pulliam left the Kansas City Star to take over publication of the Atchison, Kansas, Champion, becoming the youngest newspaper publisher in the U.S.

From Atchison he moved to Indiana as part-owner of the Franklin Star. During his long career he owned and operated 51 newspapers – as many as 23 at one time – in eight states. Today, the newspaper company he built includes The Arizona Repuiblic, The Phoenix Gazette, The Indianapolis Star-New, The Muncie Press, Topics Newspapers, Noblesville Ledger and Vincennes Sun-Commercial.

Pulliam served for 32 years as a trustee of DePauw. While a student, he confounded Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists, now an international journalism organization with more than 200 collegiate and professional chapters. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

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