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The E. W. Scripps Company was a newspaper company founded on November 2, 1878, when Edward Willis Scripps published the first issue of the Cleveland Penny Press. [4]In 1894, Scripps and his half-brother, George H. Scripps, organized their various papers into the first modern newspaper chain.
Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher. He and his sister Ellen Browning Scripps founded The E. W. Scripps Company, today a diversified media conglomerate, as well as the United Press news service (which became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service (INS) merged with United Press in 1958).
She and her half-brother E.W. Scripps created the E.W. Scripps Company, America's largest chain of newspapers, linking Midwestern industrial cities with booming towns in the West. By the 1920s, Ellen Browning Scripps was worth an estimated $30 million (or $3 billion in 2024 dollars), most of which she gave away.
Television station group owner E.W. Scripps is shutting down its 24-hour news channel on Nov. 15, another sign of a contraction in the TV news industry. ... The free channel also streamed on the ...
Lawrence A. Leser, president and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company from 1985-1998, died Oct. 21. Leser, 89, also served as chairman of the board at Scripps from 1994-1999.
The eldest child of Robert Paine and Margaret Culbertson Scripps, Bob Scripps served as a director of The E. W. Scripps Company from 1949 until 1997, and was a long-time vice chairman of The ...
Former E. W. Scripps Company subsidiaries (1 C, 22 P) I. Ion Television (3 C, 9 P) S. Scripps National Spelling Bee (2 C, 9 P, 1 F) Pages in category "E. W. Scripps ...
The E.W. Scripps Company is partnering with the News Literacy Project, a nonprofit organization, to ensure the public has the skills to be informed and participate in a democracy.