As a senior consultant at the Commonwealth of Learning, responsible for program development at the Open Learning Agency in Vancouver, Ian Mugridge examined newspaper publisher William Randolph Heart's aspirations, anxieties and vanities in relation to his influence in the political affairs of the United States during the first half of the 20th century in The View from Xanadu: William Randolph Hearst and United States Foreign Policy (McGill-Queens, 1995).

[BCBW 2003] "Journalism" "Politics"