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Karl Decker, pen name Charles Duval, (died 1941, age 73) was a journalist in the United States who worked for William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal. He covered events leading up to the Spanish American War and helped Evangelina Cosio y Cisneros escape from a Spanish prison. Controversy over the events ensued. Amy Ephron wrote about the events in her book White Rose (2000).

Before the war, Decker collaborated with filmmaker William C. Paley, covering a funeral procession for those killed on the U.S.S. Maine.

After the war, Decker returned to Cuba in 1899. He covered severe storm aftermath. He also wrote about Cuba in 1933.

Later in his career, while working at the Saturday Evening Post, he made claims about who was responsible for the theft of the Mona Lisa.

See also

• Yellow journalism#Origins: Pulitzer vs. Hearst

References

1. "KARL DECKER DIES; CORRESPONDENT, 73; Hearst Reporter Many Years Rescued Evangelina Cisneros From a Cuban Prison". The New York Times. December 5, 1941 – via NYTimes.com.
2. "Not a hoax: New evidence in the New York Journal's rescue of Evangelina Cisneros". fs2.american.edu.
3. "Was 'jailbreaking journalism' a hoax? Evidence points the other way". October 15, 2010.
4. Beitiks, Edvins; Staff, Of the Examiner (October 12, 1999). "Cultivating legend of "White Rose'". SFGate.
5. Campbell, W. Joseph (October 8, 2013). The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms. Routledge. ISBN 9781135205058 – via Google Books.
6. "80 YEARS AGO TODAY - THE BIRTH OF A PHONY MASTERMIND".
7. "100 Years Ago: The Mastermind Behind the Mona Lisa Heist". 7 December 2013.

• 1941 deaths
• American male journalists
• 20th-century American journalists
• 21st-century American male writers
• American expatriates in Cuba
• American magazine journalists
• American newspaper journalists
• Journalists from New York City
• 1860s births
• 19th-century American journalists
• 19th-century American male writers