Steve Newhouse, 37, learned the business as only a newspaper brat can. Later the same year, Woman magazine was acquired, an eight-year-old magazine with a circulation of 525,000. With the three mostly fashion additions, Newhouse now had control of more fashion advertising revenue than any of its rivals worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually. In 1981, Bunn became assistant managing editor at the Post-Standard; a year later, he was managing editor at the Herald-Journal. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Nor did he impose any particular ideology or editorial line on his managers and editors, and for the most past, he maintained political neutrality. Johnson (Franklin Templeton) - Republican 17. Jonathan Friendly, Newhouses Private Empire, New York Times, Wednesday, October 12, 1983, p. D-1. They used to joke that the corporate headquarters was in S.I. . More Demi Moore, read the cover tag line, with the featured subject photographed by Annie Leibovitz, as Moore was then seven months pregnant with her daughter. Newhouse School of Public Communications, which will be the largest gift in the University's 150-year history. By early 2008, before the economy went south, the Newhouse empire had revenues of more than $7 billion with more than 20,000 employees. The papers hired a new sports editor, John Cameron, from the Selma Times-Journal. ", Morton theorizes, "One thing that may have happened is that once the old man died, the sons took some steps to protect the quality of the newspapers. Lori Leibovich,. His counterpart at the Post-Standard is Michael J. Connor, 41, whose career began at the Post-Standard in 1976. Felsenthal worked forfive years on the Newhouse book, conducting some 430 interviews and producing a volume that offers a vast compendium of facts, quotes, and anecdotes. The Staten Island Advance may well be the only newspaper anywhere to report a genocide and then not follow it up. ?hat's a far cry from the paper that, in the mid-1970s, made a list of the country's 10 worst large-circulation dailies compiled by More, a since-closed journalism review. In 1992, after a mutant form of tuberculosis began killing prisoners, the Post-Standard investigated the medical care given New York state inmates. Then, at 26, he was named editor of the Jersey Journal, a job he held until he named himself editor in chief last year. Killen believes the paper improved in the mid-1980s under Bill Hilliard, Rowe's predecessor. The division also recently launched Cond Nast Restaurants, which plans to license the Vogue and GQ brands as eateries overseas. Jack Doyle, Rockwell & Race, 1963-1968 (Rockwell art at Saturday Evening Post & Look magazines), PopHistoryDig.com, Sep-tember 23, 2011. Samuel Irving "S.I." Newhouse Jr. (November 8, 1927 - October 1, 2017) was an American heir to a substantial magazine and media business. $2.5 billion, according to our most recent tally. At the same time, three other magazines were closed in 2001 Mademoiselle, Golf World, and Golf Digest. Asked if there is a distinctive Donald Newhouse management style, David Starr, publisher at Springfield, answers, "I think the management style is no management style. "For many years we were criticized for not taking an interest in our newsrooms," he says. Du Pont - Republican 14. Tim Jones, Unwanted Biography Reveals Newhouse, Chicago Tribune, November 29, 1994. "If you broke newspapering down to its technical components," Naughton says, the Syracuse papers "got better at every one.". 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. But the proof is in the pages. To this day I still can't help but get to the office at 5, just about when you all will be getting home from this celebration, I guess. Reporter Dee Lane was one of the staffers who labored to restore the paper's credibility on the story. "I keep that to remind me not to let that happen again," Lane says. David Westin speaks with top names in finance about the week's biggest issues on Wall Street. May 07, 2021 5:00 AM. They cost more, but they will last. The paper got choosier in its national and foreign coverage. We stand for a certain world, Anna Wintour would later tell New York magazine writer Steve Fishman in a 2009 interview. No response. When I study the health of magazines, I study renewal rates, he explained. We [now] talk freely here about race and gender, which as you know manifest themselves in the news.". For Cleveland's Plain Dealer, the major opening of 1994 wasn't Jacobs Field, the Indians' new baseball park. Since a good deal, but not all, of the history of Advance censorship and slanted reporting with regard to me, as been covered in UP FRONT News, I won't go into all the details again here. Cond Nast Publications, Wikipedia.org. 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. Newhouse was also then a part owner of the Discovery cable TV channel. 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. Stephanie Clifford, Cond Nast Closes Gourmet and 3 Other Magazines, New York Times, October 5, 2009. Newhouse, meanwhile, is running in a much more conservative district where he regularly wins with more than 60 percent of the vote. Yet, some saythe Newhouse empire is yesterdays media company, and willsuccumb to the albatross and high-cost of print in a digital age. 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. Rowe is "publishing a paper that could be published anywhere in America and that's a shame." And I think people in the state know if they're interested in anything of consequence in New Jersey, they'll find it in the paper. Its unclear if former President Donald Trump will take the stand. They exposed its own racism, and not just in the past. amzn_assoc_title = "Related Reading"; Whether the Newhouse magazines can make this move with success, however, is an open question, as other publishershave tried similar movesin the past attempting to link to television and film thathave failed. The company dates to the early 1920s, and grew to fame in the heyday of the newspaper business when its founder, Samuel I. Newhouse Sam steadily went about acquiring all manner of America newspapers during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. I have also advised the Advance of the papework-provable history of threats against me by Hillary Clinton, not to speak of all sort of criminal harassments me by surrogates of mega-fascist political extremists Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and Lenora Fulani, including the Staten Island-connected multiple offender and demagogue from Queens Geoffrey Blank. Click for copy. 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. 1997 edition of Thomas Maiers book on Newhouse family. "I don't look at [the Star-Ledger] as a wall poster," he says. Ms. Lacy-Pendleton suggested that I write a ltter to the editor. When the subsequent lawsuit reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991, the court ruled in the source's favor. Randy Pepple, a Republican political consultant based in King County, said how Herrera Beutler and Newhouse perform in their next election will most likely depend on how Trump's legacy fares over the coming years. Ms. Gotbaum is not happy about my status as a very free lance investigative reporter because she has a closetful of political skeletons, some involving her (at least marital) ties to the CIA. During its 18 years of ownership, the Newhouse family had expanded Random House from a $200 million-a-year publishing house with no properties overseas to worlds largest English language trade publisher with ports in England and Australia. After decades of non-contention, Donald Newhouse writers are claiming major prizes a top environmental writing award for Mobile, an IRE first for Cleveland, Penney Missouri awards for Syracuse. In December, in a lengthy page one piece, the Oregonian delivered an explanation to its readers. Somewhat less sophisticated than others in the Newhouse / Cond Nast group, Woman would target a newer market segment. 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. Former President Donald Trump is out to settle scores with the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach him. Still, newspapers continued to be the cash cow for Newhouse, generating the largest revenue stream for the company through the mid-1990s, usually north of $1.5 billion annually. Once you have a good reader base, advertisers invariably follow. The New Yorker at the time had a renewal rate of 72 percent, which was then 2 points above the industry average. "I have never seen such a profound change in a paper in such a short time..," says Bill Keller, the group's executive director. He misquoted me and printed a defamatory comment about me made by Gotbaum and Hillary Clinton pal State Senator Diane Savino. But on a midsummer day as the sun is just bleaching the sky, he has no desire to talk about the dramatic improvement of several of those papers. Milton Moskowitz, Michael Katz & Robert Levering, Newhouse, Every- bodys Business: A Field Guide to the 400 Leading Companies in America, New York: Doubleday/Currency, 1990, pp. But Newhouse made a counter offer of $47 a share, which the Booth group accepted. ", When Tiner arrived, about 80 people put out the two newspapers. Stephen B. Lemann, a longtime New Orleans lawyer and former newspaperman, says the Times-Picayune has been a generally better paper since Newhouse acquired it in 1962. The covers in the early 1980s began featuring male movie stars and athletes, among them, actors such as Jack Nicholson, Mel Gibson, and Harrison Ford and athletes such as Washington Redskins quarterback, Joe Theismann. Revenues for the Newhouse newspaper group plummeted 26 percent in 2009, to $1.3 billion, according to Ad Age. All Rights Reserved. make a donation to help support this website, John Clymers America: The Saturday Evening Post,, Falters Art, Rising: Saturday Evening Post. donald newhouse political affiliation. But he is at core a businessman. By 1997, Si and family had decided to sell Random, but they would not sell it to just anybody; there would have to be a genuineinterest in the book business. In early 2003, Teen Vogue was launched as a another new Cond Nast magazine with Gwen Stafani on the cover of the first issue. 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. As the first Under Secretary at the Department of Commerce for Minority Business Development, Donald R. Cravins, Jr. has been tasked with revitalizing the Minority Business Development Agency, the agency dedicated to empowering and growing the 10 million minority-owned businesses across the country. It is a US based media company founded by his father in 1922. Donald Edward Newhouse (born 1929) is an American billionaire heir and business magnate. For instance, a reporter and photographer returned from a recent trip to Haiti with photos of a voodoo ceremony that sparked a vigorous debate over racial sensitivity. amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; When I asked why, the silence at the other end of the line was proverbially deafening. The IRS, however, said the amount due was more in the neighborhood of $600 million, plus $300 million more in penalties. Assorted other Newhouse family membersassist in the management ofvarious divisions and subsidiaries. Citizen Newhouse, (Autor, Carol Felsenthal on her book), C-SPAN Video.org, January 27, 1999. Hit hard by the realities of the internet, some big Newhouse newspapers were bleeding badly. Click for copy. Donald Newhouse is Jewish, and was listed on the Jerusalem Post's list of the world's 50 richest Jews in 2010. An unsigned article published in the magazine during the management change questioned whether the new ownership would result in erosion of The New Yorkers long tradition of editorial independence. In its pitch to advertisers, showing a U.S. map with links to its 12 websites, Advance Digital says: We are a leading network of local websites we are affiliated with over 25 newspapers; we reach over 18.9 million consumers every month; and we have a large and diverse audience of educated and affluent professionals.. Maier's book, "Donald Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power and Glory of America's Richest Media Empire and the Secretive Man Behind It," is essentially a hostile biography of Si Newhouse, Donald's older brother. Some years later, Syracuse native Tim Bunn, then a Miami Herald assistant city editor, got a clipping in the mail from his mother. Rev. Katherine Irene Newhouse - school teacher at the Town School in New York; married Dr. Joseph Patrick Mele in 1991. The cover of that issue featured Sienna Miller along withitsproudly proclaimedpage count. Here are the political affiliations of Americas 50 richest families, ranked according to wealth: 16. Albert Scardino, Big Spender at Vanity Fair Raises the Ante for Writers, New York Times, April 17, 1989. Wrobleski's story, appearing with a front page lead on August 27, 2005, was filled with willful errors and was as slanted as some of the stuff that appears about Tibet in the Communist Chinese media. Sons Donald and Si command one of the world's largest family fortunes, recently estimated at $8 billion between them by Forbes magazine. Under the formula calling for one editorial employee for every thousand in circulation, Tiner figured they were understaffed. Having left school at about the age of 13 due to his familys poverty, Samuel I. Newhouse landed a job with a local judge in Bayonne, New Jersey. In November 1992, just weeks after a squeaker of a Senate election, the Washington Post published a story in which women associates charged Republican Sen. Bob Packwood with making unwanted sexual advances. ", "It's an unusual era we're in," Tiner says. Sandra McElwaine, Newhouse: Book Reviews, Washington Monthly, Jan-Feb, 1995. By 1989, Forbes magazine, in its annual listing of the richest Americans, found the Newhouse empire to be worth some $5.2 billion. Jack Doyle, U.S. Jeannine F. Hunter, Cox Communica- tions May Swap Myrtle Beach, S.C., System to Time Warner, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, March 28, 1996. Lucky, a new creation, was launched in December 2000, cast as a shopping guide and style magazine primarily for women. I did. ". But he complains that on both page one and in the local news sections "you have format driving content." Deirdre Carmody, Tina Brown to Take Over at The New Yorker, New York Times, July 1, 1992. Thanks for visiting and if you like what you find here, please make a donation to help support this website. Newspapers the stock and trade of the Newhouse rise were also in trouble by this time. He has continued to customize the paper for suburban readers. Newhouse used part of the money from that sale to buy up other cable TV systems, and by 1981 or sohad over 500,000 cable television subscribers. Meanwhile, an older but reliable magazine on the newspaper side, Parade, was enjoying a growing readership base. He is owner of Advance Publications. I think its very debatable whether they improved the quality or not. Over at The New Yorker, meanwhile, the engaging stories and cover art of that magazine continued to be much-loved features, though occasionally generating notice with cover art that hit certain sensitive political or controversial subjects. March 1958: Glamour shortly before the Newhouse acquisition. That was clear reference to me since, in part thanks to some of her political friends, I had been homeless and also tacitly acknowledged the fact that I was one of the people in her appointment book since the appointment had been made with her secretary. I replied to Ms. Platt and, in response to several e-mails, she referred me to a number of Advance editors, all whom whom at Ms. Platt's suggestions I called and sent e-mails to. Vanity Fair was then selling some 55 percent of its copies on the newsstand, well above the industry average of 42 percent. While some students of Newhouse's history raise doubts about whether the trend will last, whether it is deeper than a quest for prizes, this much is clear: These are different papers than they were. ", The New Orleans Times-Picayune stunned?Louisiana in 1993 with "Together Apart: The Myth of Race." Wrobleski spent most or the article reporting the technicalities of running as a write-in candidate and a miniscule percentage to my very heavy issues with the corrupt and anti-human rights Clinton. He, for instance, goes monthly with his father to Cleveland, but also works with Starr on oversight of the Washington bureau. 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. We're not flashy. "If we're going to lose circulation," says Tim Atseff, Bunn's managing editor, "it's not going to be because of a crappy product. But under Donald Newhouse ownership, it had seen some journalistic ups and downs. Four of those cover shots, which featured celebrity authors and actors, are shown here at right from top left: novelist Philip Roth, September 1983; writer and playwrightSusan Sontag, October 1983; European writer, Francine du Plessix Gray, November 1983; andcomedian-in-disguise, Woody Allen, December 1983. By then he owned 16 newspapers. Jim Dwyer, a columnist at Newsday, says that Newhouse's leadership turned the paper from the lapdog of the Hudson County political machine into a credible broadsheet. The Oregonian had looked into rumors of Packwood's misbehavior months before, but not aggressively. Rowe set a new, even radical, tone (see "A Brand New Ballgame," page 28). "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. In 2002, for example, it offered a formal portrait of President George W. Bushs Afghan War Cabinet. Jack Doyle, Empire Newhouse:1920s-2010s "They've got the necessary critical mass of talent, the commitment to spend money. Fashion, of course, is acore part of the Newhouse /Cond Nast publishing and advertising world, with the venerable Vogue magazine and its iconic editor, Anna Wintour, among itsbiggest stars. amzn_assoc_search_bar = "true"; Princess Di was photographed in full House of Windsor regalia for the issue. On August 26, 2005 NYC Newsday's Dan Janison - then the City Hall reporter and now a major ("Spin Cycle") columnist at Newsday - reported my side of the Gotbaum vs. Weiss story and took care to report the fact of my U.S. Senate candidacy as well as my history as a whistleblower. Donald Newhouse publishers have the freedom to make decisions that shape the futures of their newspapers, rather than the next quarterly report, he says. n the past, "a good number of these newspapers have had moments when it looks like they're breaking the chronic mediocrity that has been instilled," he says. In the first three months of 2009, The New Yorkers ad pages were down 36 percent, and at Vogue and Vanity Fair, around 30 percent. Si and Donaldwill soon turn over control of the company tothe next generation of Newhouse executives. The Springfield Union-News in Massachusetts runs an average of 200 open columns per day, and with a circulation of 108,000 maintains an editorial staff of 204. Samuel I. Newhouse, Publisher, Dies at 84; Builder of an Empire in Newspapers and Broadcasting, New York Times, August 30, 1979, p. 1. He said he would see how my campaign "develops" and asked me to stay in touch with him by telephone and e-mail. Other New Yorker covers during the 2000s captured economic problems such as Red Death on Wall Street, by artist Robert Risko that ran in the October 20, 2008 issue, or S.O.S., by Christoph Niemann, that ran in the August 15/22, 2011 issue. ?roundbreaking reporting on the Persian Gulf War syndrome came out of the News in Birmingham, Alabama. 1930 Donald Newhouse is born. Donald Trump Gets His Facebook Account Back After Failed Coup Attempt, MSNBCs Joe Scarborough: Hard To Grasp The Reality Donald Trump Was Ever President. I sent Ms. Platt an e-mail stating that her coverage of Rev. The Times Mirror Company then owner of the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Dallas Times Herald, and The Orange Coast Daily Pilot was also interested. Donald Newhouse has 15 Voter Records In 2012, Bezos made a $2.5 million donation to Washington United for Marriage who was running a campaign to have same-sex marriage legalized in the state. Its formula: Cover everything in great, if routine, detail. 1966 . The last time called, Ms. Boyd put me right through to Donald Newhouse. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; NBC News), that perhaps Donald Newhouseis (journalistically of course) "in bed with LaRouche." If I, in my own mind, can justify [an expense] in terms of reader interest, I'm pretty assured it will happen. The Staten Island Advance led the borough's secessionist movement in 1993, winning a first place for editorials from the New York AP. May 2012: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans announces print edition cutback and move to digital. Newhouse Jr . 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. Said he in 1968: My papers have different philosophies, and theyre about as wide apart as they can get. He resides in New York City. Vanity Fair stories had cultural and current affairs impact, too. 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. "It's hard to get a handle on the Newhouse group," media analyst John Morton observes. ", But the promise from a new publisher, Howard Bronson Jr., was "that we were going to be aggressive, that he wanted to be the best paper in Alabama pretty quickly and one of the best papers in the South not much later. Carolina is very knowledgeable about the Titone matter. She asked me for an e-mail to her; I sent it to her. In the 1980s, although no newspapers were acquired, some were consolidated, especially in cities where Newhouse owned both the morning and afternoon papers. 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. He published pictures of the royalty for the separate black and white Mardi Gras balls on the same page, "and the world didn't come to an end. Of the 50 richest families, 28 mainly donate to Republicans and only seven contribute mainly to Democrats. And the Plain Dealer has put into place what Hall says will be "one of the best set-ups for computer-assisted journalism in the country.". American City Business Journals, Wiki-pedia.org. Photographer Irving Penn, described as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century, was enlisted in the Vanity Fair re-launch during 1983. 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. Dolph Briscoe, Jr., member of the Briscoe ranching family, was a Democrat and governor of Texas from 1973 to 1979. Daniel Milton Newhouse (born July 10, 1955) is an American politician and agricultural scientist serving as the U.S. representative for Washington's 4th congressional district. But we do appeal to the reader.". The Advance Digital websites provide local information, breaking news, local sports, travel destinations, weather, dining, bar guides and health and fitness information. political party, location, and more. The properties are familiar names to anyone who takes reading seriously: Random House.
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