No skyscraper like Gannett's in Arlington, Virginia, not even acreage like Knight-Ridder's on a full floor of One Herald Plaza in Miami. Newhouse Acquires Booth Chain of Newspapers for $305 Million, New York Times, November 9, 1979. I skim the paper now in 10, where before I would have to take 20 minutes to read it.". 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. But he bristles at the suggestion that in the past decade his family's newspapers have become different, better. interview was, at his request, done by phone. Part of the sequence of 20 celebrity pairs used in Vanity Fairs special Africa edition, July 2007. And you don't see that in many American cities. Says a former editor: "It's all Steve.". 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. "They've got the necessary critical mass of talent, the commitment to spend money. Meanwhile, an older but reliable magazine on the newspaper side, Parade, was enjoying a growing readership base. Demetrius Carolina of the Stapleton-based First Central Baptist Church. Jonathan Friendly, Newhouses Private Empire, New York Times, Wednesday, October 12, 1983, p. D-1. 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. It covers New Jersey like a thin sheet." Others believe the trend stems from the family's desire for respectability. The paper recently began using full color, for instance, but only in advance feature sections and on Sunday's page one. He put staff members through diversity workshops. ?homas Maier is a Newsday investigative reporter who spent four years researching and writing a recently published book on the Newhouse family. In 1980 Newhouse also sold five television stations to the Times Mirror Company for $82 million. amzn_assoc_title = "Related Reading"; Richard H. Meeker, Newspaperman: S.I. The clearest example is the new plant. 1955 Marries Sue Marley, who he met at Syracuse University. For additional stories at this website on newspaper and magazine history, see for example: Newsweek Sold!, 1961 (on the Washington Posts acquisition of Newsweek, Ben Bradlee/Phil Graham role, and more recent history from Newsweeks demise to the Jeff Bezos acquisition of the Post); FDR & Vanity Fair, 1930s (politics & publishing during the New Deal era); Murdochs NY Deals, 1976-1977 (Rupert Murdochs newspaper & magazine growth, including his takeover of Clay Felkers New York Magazine); and Rockwell & Race, 1963-1968, (exploring Norman Rockwells art on this topic at The Saturday Evening Post and Look magazine). Gotbaum made things worse when, as retribution for my decision to support NYC Public Advocate Norman Siegel over her, she contacted Mr. Siegel and complained that I was "stalking" her. Whatever the outcome, thereis 90 years of richhistory here a publishing and cultural time capsule of sorts, reflecting changes in publishing and media generally over that period. Newhouse Jr., who died two years later. Ziff - Both 16. When Alabama debated whether to allow casino gambling, he sent staff to Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Deadwood, South Dakota. By March 1998, the Newhouse family appeared to be streamlining its operation, and cutting away properties which had underperformed. Eric N. Berg, Newhouse Purchasing the New Yorker, New York Times, Saturday, March 9, 1985, p.1. Parade, in fact, gave Newhouse a window into many other newspapers, as it was then one of the leading Sunday supplement inserts used by some 111 newspapers with a combined circulation of more than 19 million. Between 2007 and 2009 Newhouse had closed nearly a dozen magazines, among them: Jane, House & Garden, Mens Vogue, Golf for Women, Domino, Portfolio, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride, Gourmet, and Cookie. Women want to have pretty clothes. Ron DeSantis (R) Meatball Ron in a social media post Saturday, refuting claims and reports that Trump had insulted DeSantis appearance by calling him various nicknames in private. In the 1980s, although no newspapers were acquired, some were consolidated, especially in cities where Newhouse owned both the morning and afternoon papers. Details may include related records, political party, location, and more. The Times-Picayune had started addressing racial and gender issues two years before, within the organization. Back on the newspaper acquisition trail, Newhouse acquired the Oregon Journal in 1961 for $8 million. Penn, who began shooting for Vogue magazine in 1943, did six successive covers for Vanity Fair in 1983, August through December 1983. And so, it seems, is the Staten Island Advance. The paper got choosier in its national and foreign coverage. Jack Doyle, Lucy & TV Guide: 1953-2013, PopHistoryDig.com, January 26, 2015 (story featuring history Lucille Balls 43 TV Guide covers that helped make Walter Annenbergs TV magazine one of the top sellers in the country). Donald Newhouse and his late brother, Samuel "Si" inherited the publishing and broadcasting empire Advance Publications decades ago. No response. (Photo: AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack), I write about billionaires and entrepreneurs around the world, Americas Richest Families: An eBook From Forbes. Cond Nast International now has more than 100 editions. In recent years the Newhouse /Advance empire has ranked among the 50 largest private companies in the U.S. The singer has used social media to build her brand, and now has 107.8 million followers on Twitter and millions more on other social media platforms. Not all families stay on the same side of the political spectrum 15 support candidates from both parties. Other Vanity Fair covers through 1992 featured Hollywood celebrities, rock stars, and enticing cover stories, among them: Jessica Lange in October 1991, Goldie Hawn in March 1992, and Mick Jagger in April 1992. ", Steve Newhouse explains: "Because we have our own jobs, we suffer through our own problems and don't create problems for other people.". amzn_assoc_ad_mode = "manual"; Sandra McElwaine, Newhouse: Book Reviews, Washington Monthly, Jan-Feb, 1995. amzn_assoc_linkid = "fa44142502aebf404fb0de23cf23ed83"; Dorrance - Both 19. We're decentralized. Maggie Mahar, All in the Family, Barrons, November 27, 1989. 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. However, the courts later found in favor of the Newhouse family. "They've just made some very good hires and have been doing some very good journalism," she says. She even wrote that she would not work for a paper that practices censorship. 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. Sam Newhouse on the cover of Time magazine, July 27th, 1962. The other jobs, to one degree or other, were safer, in that I was stepping into someone else's box and either making it bigger or making it mine. Othersbelievethe Newhouse empire will not only survive, butwillthrive, continuing to be a dominant cultural force andcontemporary story teller, setting trends in fashion, literature, and style as it goes. Robert, on the other hand, has donated more than $250,000 to Republican campaigns and political groups. 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. Somewhat less sophisticated than others in the Newhouse / Cond Nast group, Woman would target a newer market segment. Donald Newhouse, ?ince he came to Cleveland in 1992, Hall, 51, has broadened sports coverage, committing to greater emphasis on minorities, women and minor sports. In 2009, The Ann Arbor News was reduced more or less to a website, AnnArbor.com, with a print edition appearing just two days a week usinga fraction of its former staff to run the website. In New York, Mr. Newhouse favored Republican Nelson Rockefeller for governor. His father William Ziff, Jr., who built a publishing empire before selling it off, donated to Democratic candidates before he died in 2006. "The cost of doing those projects is minimal compared to the cost of putting out a quality newspaper day after day," he says. Du Pont - Republican 14. "My sense is that they're trying to gain prestige, and perhaps take advantage of opportunity the other guy's retreating," one reporter says. My answer brings an apologetic smile. Buys Portland Oregonian; Newhouse Adds Coast Paper to Chain for $5,000,000, New York Times, December 11, 1950. Given its history, he doesn't believe the newpapers' gains will be sustained. If the Donald Newhouse papers are doing better journalism, he tells me, "it's coincidental. Beyond Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, the Newhouse enterprise continued to extend its reach in the magazine business. 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On June 2, 1980, The States-Item was gone but the surviving paper shared a joint banner using both names. Carol Felsenthals 1998 book, Citizen Newhouse. Click for copy. In that capacity it appears that she is acting as a de facto shill for the developers and their political friends in City Hall, Borough Call, the NYC City Council and Staten Island Community Board 1 in what I have called in UP FRONT News the planned "Soho-ization" of the ethnically diverse St.George, Stapleton (where I live), Tompkinsville and Clifton communities of the North Shore of Staten Island. Newhouse and said, 'There is a man who looks at newspapers as a deliverer of advertising.' Mr. Siegel later brought that to my attention and we had something of a mutual chuckle over that. The series spanned six installments from May to November, exploring a "tumultuous, three-century-old relationship" between New Orleans blacks and whites that, the paper observed, "continues unresolved today." He misquoted me and printed a defamatory comment about me made by Gotbaum and Hillary Clinton pal State Senator Diane Savino. Discovery Series A, Resides in New York, NY Metropolitan Area. Show all. Johnson (Franklin Templeton) Republican, 46. The Newhouse newspapers for years were regarded as high-profit journalistic underachievers. Vanity Fairs circulation had jumped to 1.2 million by 1991. Carolina was good but advising her of the fact of serious censorship and slanted reporting at her paper and providing some specifics. Bertelsmann wanted a foothold in the American publishing business, and in the end paid more than $1 billion for Random House $1.3 billion by one estimate. 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. Newhouse Buys Alabama Papers; Pub-lisher Pays $18.7 Million for 2 Dailies, TV Outlet, and 3 Radio Stations, New York Times, December 2, 1955. It is a fact that, in early 2005 after I announced my candidacy as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate against the Republicrat Hillary Clinton I met for over an hour with Tom Wrobleski in his office conveniently located in the Staten Island Borough Hall. "It looks nicer," says James Neff, an investigative author and director of the Kiplinger Public Affairs Reporting Program at Ohio State University. Jeannine F. Hunter, Cox Communica- tions May Swap Myrtle Beach, S.C., System to Time Warner, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, March 28, 1996. make a donation to help support this website, John Clymers America: The Saturday Evening Post,, Falters Art, Rising: Saturday Evening Post. Cash Cow Blues. Mellon. According to a new book, First Lady Melania Trump "popped into" the Situation Room during a military raid and made suggestions on how to describe the raid to the American people.". As of November 2010, he added Vogue in India and GQ in China. A majority of the 50 wealthiest American families donate to Republicans. [5], In January 2020, Newhouse donated $75 million to Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. The wealth of the Newhouse family at this point approached $200 million. N. R. Kleinfield, The Media Business; Heads Have a History of Rolling at Newhouse, New York Times, November 2, 1989. 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. Boehner is shown offering his fist, while Obama extends his hand for a handshake. Newhouse acquired three magazines in the Disney deal W, Jane, and Womens Wear Daily. First, Sam Newhouse, the founding father, circa 1920s. November 1992: Democratic candidates Bill Clinton and Al Gore are featured on CQs cover with a story by Gore Vidal Gore Vidal Punches the Ticket.. Investor Robert Ziff also looks to be the political black sheep of his family. There are 17 voter registration records for Donald Newhouse. Then came other newspaper acquisitions: the Long Island Press in 1932; the Newark Star Ledger in 1933, the long Island Star Journal in 1938; the Syracuse Journal in 1939; the Syracuse Herald-Standard in 1941; the Jersey Journal in 1945; and the Harrisburg Patriot of Pennsylvania in 1948. He hired an editorial cartoonist. Ashlee Vance explores innovations in new tech, software, engineering, and science in places outside of Silicon Valley. Warren St. John, So Why Did Newhouse Sell Random House to Bertelsmann Boys?, The New York Observer, March 30, 1998. 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. Samuel Irving "S.I." Newhouse Jr. (November 8, 1927 - October 1, 2017) was an American heir to a substantial magazine and media business. Rihannas Super Bowl Halftime Show Is Blowing Up YouTube Did She Prove Donald Trump Wrong? The Oregonian had looked into rumors of Packwood's misbehavior months before, but not aggressively. A few weeks ago, the media knowledgeable public relations professional Frank DeLuca, who has been serving as my Media Consultant on a pro bono basis, suggested, in light of LaRouche's long history of infiltration into the mainstream media (e.g. Tim Jones, Unwanted Biography Reveals Newhouse, Chicago Tribune, November 29, 1994. We never believed we were producing a perfect magazine when we relaunched Vanity Fair, said Si Newhouse at the time. 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. I wrote two. His assessment of the Star-Ledger is unforgiving: "The Newark Star-Ledger continues to be an absolute journalistic disaster. And, when it comes to adultery, she may have served as something of a role model for people like Bill Clinton and Vito Fossella. She asked that I send my e-mail to her since he does not have a direct e-mail address. March 1981: Actor Jack Nicholson on cover of Newhouse-owned GQ magazine. She introduced color and photographygiving the magazine a more modern layout with less type on each page. In early 1988, Details magazine was acquired, which was originally a somewhat quirky chronicle of Manhattans downtown art and club scene when Newhouse acquired it for $2 million, but was transformed into a young mens fashion and lifestyle magazine. 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. 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 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. In other cases, change has come at the prodding of top-echelon talent hired from outside the group: Deborah Howell, Washington bureau chief and editor of Newhouse News Service; new editors Sandra Mims Rowe (the Oregonian in Portland) and David Hall (Cleveland's Plain Dealer), John Kirkpatrick (the Harrisburg Patriot-News) and Stan Tiner (the Mobile Press and Register). Local newspapers with monopoly positions like those in the Booth chain, were described by one 1975 analystas offering practically a licence to print money.. Vogues Sept 2007 fashion issue, featuring actress and model Sienna Miller on its cover. 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. (Perhaps he has the same narcisstic anxieties manifested by his insecure political pals Gotbaum and Savino.) With no story of its own, it ran the Post's. Depsite the concerns, things at The New Yorker continued pretty much as they had, asthe magazines integrity and qualitywere not compromised. "But the transformation has been incredible.". Any notion of an "exclusive" was wishful thinking on Wrobleski's part since I had already spoken to Mr. Janison. 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. In essence, it said, we screwed up. Thank you. The challenge is the future. As the former president tries to fend off authorities, new revelations about Trump Tower suggest that the building isand always wassomething of a fraud. Newhouse and the Business of News, New Haven, Connecticut: Ticknor & Fields, 1983. But we do appeal to the reader.". In 2002, for example, it offered a formal portrait of President George W. Bushs Afghan War Cabinet. I did manage to get quoted by Advance reporter Maura Yates in her story a few weeks ago about one of the rather insufferable and inconsiderate Ferry preachers. Vanity Fair at 25: The Covers, VanityFair .com, September 26, 2008. ?ournalism prizes, notes David Johnston, assistant business editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, tell only half the story. "What'll be interesting is what they do next.". If you read Wired magazine, The New Yorker, or Vanity Fair, youre reading material produced by a company named Advance Publications. August 1993 Vanity Fair cover with model Cindy Crawford shaving famous lesbian singing star, k.d. Its unclear if former President Donald Trump will take the stand. Nora Rawlinson, The Random House Acquisition: An Interview with S.I. Lucky, a new creation, was launched in December 2000, cast as a shopping guide and style magazine primarily for women. Vanity Fair stories had cultural and current affairs impact, too. Another 40 weekly titles are published by Advance through its American City Business Journals. i hate living in asheville, lawson employee self service prime healthcare, is sky: children of the light offline,