• June 26, 2012

George Randolph Hearst, Jr., chairman of the board of Hearst Corporation, president of The Hearst Foundation and a director of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, died Monday. He was 84. The oldest grandson of the late William Randolph Hearst, George Hearst, Jr. had served on the staff of the San Francisco Examiner and as publisher of the Los Angeles Examiner. He was a director of the Hearst Corp. for more than 53 years and served as president of the Hearst Foundation.