He owns Advance Publications, founded by his father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., in 1922, whose properties include Cond Nast (publisher of such magazines as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker), dozens of newspapers across the US (including The Star-Ledger, The Plain Dealer, and The Oregonian), cable company Bright House Networks and a controlling stake in Discovery Communications. Her book includes great detail on Si Newhouses editorial proclivities and the lavish perks he bestowed on his editorial elite, with former editors and publishers talking candidly about their dealings with Newhouse, who is cast as cold and uncaring by several long-time editors. Our publishers have autonomy.". "It hurt a lot." The "conversation" lasted perhaps three minutes. Details may include related records, political party, location, and more. But under Donald Newhouse ownership, it had seen some journalistic ups and downs. Jeannine F. Hunter, Cox Communica- tions May Swap Myrtle Beach, S.C., System to Time Warner, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, March 28, 1996. But it wasnt that at all. John Farmer, the Star-Ledger's veteran political writer, calls it "an old-fashioned paper, with old-fashioned news values.". Women want to have pretty clothes. But in the last decade, particularly in the last five years, they have begun to move forward. (I said he was creating a "boatload of atheists."). In 1992 when Stan Tiner was considering whether to become editor of the Mobile Press and Register, he turned to a biography of S.I. However, as part of the privately-held Advance Publications empire, and not having to worry about quarter-to-quarter pressures ofa publicly-held company, the Newhouse family could and did take the long view with Random House.Some believe Newhouse played a key role in pushing Random to bring on celebrity authors and blockbuster books that would do well in a more entertainment-driven marketplace. Stephanie Clifford, Cond Nast Closes Gourmet and 3 Other Magazines, New York Times, October 5, 2009. They remained married until her death in 2015 of primary progressive aphasia, the same rare disorder that afflicted his brother, Si Newhouse. In 2010, the slide continued at some papers, as circulation at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland one of the biggest of theNewhouse papers was down 7 percent during the six-months of March-August 2010 to an average of 253,000 copies. The politics of other billion-dollar families arent as well known. View details on more than 95 Million registered voters across the United States. The result: NCAA probation, the loss of some scholarships to athletes and a massive follow-up investigation by the school. Howard Kurtz, When Art Gives Offense, Washington Post, Tuesday, July 15, 2008. [4] Donald Newhouse is Jewish, and was listed on the Jerusalem Post's list of the world's 50 richest Jews in 2010. Geraldine Fabrikant, Si Newhouse Tests His Magazine Magic, New York Times, September 25, 1988. "When you're a weak institution that hasn't done the job, people assume they can push you around because they always have," Tiner says. Newhouse had also offered some $500 million in backing to QVC, thenin a 1993 bid for Paramount film studios, which QVC later lost to Viacom. No small part of the deal was Parade magazine. It chronicled the production of what was then the largest issue in Vogue magazine history, the September 2007 issue, running some 840 pages thick, 727 pages of which were ads. Advance Publications, International Directory of Company Histories, Vol. Linda Fibich (Newhouse News Services national editor), Book Review, The Newhouse Media Empire, American Journalism Review, January/February 1995. Connor says the '70s were marked by "a culture of change." Private Company Incorporated: 1924 as Staten Island Advance Company Employees: 18,500 Sales: $2.94 billion A multi-billion dollar international communications empire made up of newspapers, magazines, books, and electronic me dia, Advance Publications Inc. is a family-owned . That deal brought Newhouse Broadcastings 1.4 million subscribers together with Time-Warner systems in New York, North Carolina and Florida at a time when the cable industry was undergoing consolidation in preparation for the battle-to-come withphone companies. Wintour, in fact, was famously played by Meryl Streep in the 2006 film, The Devil Wears Prada. For Cleveland's Plain Dealer, the major opening of 1994 wasn't Jacobs Field, the Indians' new baseball park. The following year he set another industry record when he paid $54.2 million fortheCleveland Plain-Dealer. In 1996, journalist Marie Brenner wrote a Vanity Fair expos on the tobacco industry entitled The Man Who Knew Too Much, an article later adapted for the 1999 film, The Insider, with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. If there's improvement in the papers, it's as a result of improvements being made locally. 1955 Marries Sue Marley, who he met at Syracuse University. In the magazine business, meanwhile, the early 1980s at Newhouse were a time of revamping and relaunching some of the companys acquired properties. When the subsequent lawsuit reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991, the court ruled in the source's favor. 2010 edition of Cond Nast Traveler, launched in 1987. The paper has the largest circulation of any in the group (464,000 daily, 697,000 Sunday). A round of reviews followed the Vanity Fair makeover, including some that were sharply negative, as those that came from Time and The New Republic. Carol Felsenthal, Citizen Newhouse: Portrait of a Media Merchant , New York: Seven Stories Press, 1998, 608pp. Pamela G. Hollie, Newhouse to Acquire 17% of The New Yorker, New York Times, Wednesday, November 14, 1984, p. D-1. Cash Cow Blues. One advantage in their favor, however, may be thetop-shelf nature of the Newhouse magazines and their premium-brand content,offering strong appeal to upscale consumers and advertisers. Newhouse, Publishers Weekly, April 3, 1998. They used to joke that the corporate headquarters was in S.I. He also resisted unions and did not pay high salaries to his reporters. That same year, the Cleveland Press ceased operation. And, as a private company, we've been able to take the long view Newspapers don't change overnight.". Aug. 5, 2022 Representative Dan Newhouse of Washington, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, will advance to the. "That's a generous premise," he allows. ", ?ext in line was sports. After graduating from Yale, he spent a summer at the Oregonian, then went to Springfield, Massachusetts. Newhouse himself was a registered Democrat, and he voted for John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential race. In February 1975 he had acquired 25 percent of the stock in the Booth Newspaper group, a chain of eight small newspapers all within 200 miles of Detroit, Michigan. He answers his own phone. Page 1 of 9,554,641. Geraldine Fabrikant, Disney to Sell Publications Inherited With Capital Cities, New York Times, January 29, 1997. Still, in Random House, the Newhouse organization did not find the cross-business opportunities or synergies as some described them that might have moved between the magazine and book businesses.
Dan Newhouse getting help from GOP Trump impeachment backer | Tacoma amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; Christine Schiavo, Chain Buys Express-times Of Easton In Newhouse Group, Newspaper Joins Star-Ledger, Parade Magazine, The Morning Call (Allentown, PA), July 6, 2000. "What'll be interesting is what they do next.". Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse and Democrat Doug White will advance to the general election out of the top-two primary in Washington's 4th Congressional District, CNN projects. New Yorkers New Face: Malcolm X, New York Daily News, Monday, October 5, 1992. Together with his brother Donald, he owned Advance Publications, founded by their late father in 1922, whose properties include Cond Nast (publisher of such magazines as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker), dozens of newspapers across the United . Johnson (Franklin Templeton) Republican, 46. W and Womens Wear were fashion magazines, while Jane was oriented to the 18-to-34 year old market. Brown, an Oxford University graduate, had given The Tatler a more modern and satirical edge, and it appeared thats what Newhouse had in mind for Vanity Fair as well.
THE BIGGEST PRIVATE FORTUNE Media magnates Si and Don Newhouse control Referring to my quite detailed e-mails, which Ms., Boyd had given to him personally, I made reference to the censorship of the Tibet Genocide and the Titone matters. In May 1998, the company acquired full control of Wired magazine, the San Francisco based technology/life style magazine. The artist, Barry Blitt, defended his work, saying the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic in certain sectors is preposterous. ", One word captures the motive for change at Portland's Oregonian: Packwood. Nor did Hall arrive without baggage. Jonathan Friendly, Newhouses Private Empire, New York Times, Wednesday, October 12, 1983, p. D-1.
The States-Item was an evening paper with a circulation of about 163,000. he meetings are unannounced to the papers' staffs. "And your reputation in New York is more influenced by the fact that you win a Pulitzer Prize in New Orleans than by the fact that you put out a consistently good newspaper there.
T-Mobile USA PAC Contributions to Federal Candidates Ms. Lacy-Pendleton suggested that I write a ltter to the editor. Details may include related records, political party, location, and more. Reporter Dee Lane was one of the staffers who labored to restore the paper's credibility on the story. Newhouse was 21 by this time, and his boss, Judge Lazarus, paid him $30,000 a year, and gave him a 25 percent share the Bayonne Times. Search; . In 1981, Bunn became assistant managing editor at the Post-Standard; a year later, he was managing editor at the Herald-Journal. Among these was a magazine that would later become the Cond Nast Traveler, a monthly magazine for affluent readers and travelers that was acquired from American Express as Signature magazine, but was vastly upgraded and relaunched by Newhouse in the fall of 1987 with an infusionof about $40 million. Donald Newhouse, GEarly this year, reporters looked into bad bond investments by county treasurers. The papers hired a new sports editor, John Cameron, from the Selma Times-Journal. The first new issue included some 290 pages with a short novel by Gabriel Garcia Mrquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for literature, and also articles by writer Gore Vidal and paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The larger of these two, the Times Picayune, then had a daily circulation in excess of 195,000, with more than 300,000 sold on Sundays. Last Update: 6 December 2020 EMEA +44 20 7330 7500. Newhouse had just hired smart attorneys and accountants who figured out ways to pay the absolute least amount of corporate taxes while costing every expense they could and depreciating assets to the limit. The first call I got from Wrobleski occurred in late August, 2005 when my UP FRONT News associate Willard Whittingham received a rather desperate call from Wrobleski regarding the matter of NYC Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum having made a defamatory reference to me in a televised campaign debate. ", on Franklin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who teaches journalism at the University of Oregon, credits Rowe with "a broadening and deepening of coverage that has been remarkable..more exciting that anything I've seen [in journalism] since 1975. Nora Rawlinson, The Random House Acquisition: An Interview with S.I. They had hired from what Naughton calls the first wave of the J-school boom, reporters who "were young..ambitious. His father William Ziff, Jr., who built a publishing empire before selling it off, donated to Democratic candidates before he died in 2006. I think Si deserves a lot of credit, said Thomas Maier, author of the 1994 book, Newhouse, summing up the Newhouse ownership of Random House to New York Times reporter Doreen Carvajal. If not, could you forward this site to this person? If I, in my own mind, can justify [an expense] in terms of reader interest, I'm pretty assured it will happen. Newhouse reportedly offered $650 million in the Disney/Fairchild magazine deal, outbidding the Hearst Corporation, a big rival in the magazine business. Tiner also increased the number of editorial writers from two to five. Rumors circulated that Si Newhouse might decide to take the barely-surviving magazine and fold it into The New Yorker. (Photo: AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack), I write about billionaires and entrepreneurs around the world, Americas Richest Families: An eBook From Forbes. [5] Philanthropy [ edit] In January 2020, Newhouse donated $75 million to Syracuse University 's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. By early 2008, before the economy went south, the Newhouse empire had revenues of more than $7 billion with more than 20,000 employees. Random House has always been as firmly self-interested as the next publisher. During the 18-year Newhouse tenure, Random House and the book business had changed, and with the web and new retailing patterns, more change was ahead. But under Browns direction, Vanity Fair began to show itself in a new way, offering a range of new cover subjects, stories and photography. But the talent has come and gone. Newhouse Jr . And the Ann Arbor News in Michigan, one of eight Booth papers Newhouse purchased in 1976, was listed as an example of an excellent small daily by ASNE in 1989. Newhouse was also then a part owner of the Discovery cable TV channel. In other newspaper business, Newhouse also sold the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in 1984. My answer brings an apologetic smile. Newhouse did. A glimpse into the lives of the richest, most prolific families in America, and how they builtand sustainedtheir empires. And under the Newhouse umbrella, Parade would only grow in the years ahead. When German bookseller Bertelsmann approached Newhouse with an interest in the company, negotiations began. Donald Newhouse is very popular billionaire heir and business magnate. Connor says the emphasis is shifting now, "from the massive, seven- to 12-month project" to a more thorough report of what's happening. "A guy who had worked that long at a paper that good and had risen that high was going to make things happen in Syracuse," he says. Donald Trump Gets His Facebook Account Back After Failed Coup Attempt, MSNBCs Joe Scarborough: Hard To Grasp The Reality Donald Trump Was Ever President. But he bristles at the suggestion that in the past decade his family's newspapers have become different, better. The only "response" I got came after I called the paper and ended up speaking by phone with editor Marjorie Hack. Vanity Fair continued to be a pop culture trend-setter in the early 1990s, featuring cutting-edge stories, Hollywood celebrities, and sometimes controversial covers, not the least of which was a nude and very pregnant Demi Moore on the cover of the August 1991 issue. Elsewhere in the magazine business, in February 1979, Newhouse also purchased Gentlemens Quarterly from Esquire and rolled it intothe Cond Nast magazine group, later renaming itGQ. S.I. ", Meeker, on the other hand, says the new Oregonian seems more driven by the quest for prizes than the desire to cover Oregon. Wired Nests with Cond Nast: Will the Magazines New Owners Dull its Edge?, Salon.com, May 8, 1998. Newhouse - Democrat 12. I think that, if Ms. Platt meant what she wrote, she should strongly consider looking for work elsewhere. And, when it comes to adultery, she may have served as something of a role model for people like Bill Clinton and Vito Fossella. Focusing on teen fashion and celebrities, with related news and entertainment feature stories, it became a successful new magazine in the Newhouse/Cond Nast stable, soon reaching a circulation of more than one million. Its a Tightly Private Show, But Theres No Hiding Wealth This Big, Fortune, August 17, 1987, p. 60. For years the Plain Dealer was seen as a paper that undershot its potential, and worse. Walton, who is the one of the richest woman in the world, knows the Clintons through Arkansas connections and previously donated to Hillarys 2008 campaign. When I study the health of magazines, I study renewal rates, he explained. The old publishing families the Grahams, the Sulzbergers, the Binghams "looked down their noses at S.I. A full-page color ad in Parade at this time would cost its sponsor about $420,000. [9], Newhouse married Susan Marley in 1955, just after she had graduated from Wellesley College. Thank you. "Everything [had been] wire copy," Tiner says. Yet, some saythe Newhouse empire is yesterdays media company, and willsuccumb to the albatross and high-cost of print in a digital age. They also structured each newspaper as its own operation, each attributed its own separate profits, avoiding a much higher commulative total under one, single-owned Newhouse entity.