EW Scripps
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Edward Willis Scripps, (1854-1854) was an American newspaper publisher and founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a multi-national media conglomerate and United Press news service, alongside his sister Ellen Browning Scripps.
When International News Service (INS) merged with United Press in 1958, it became United Press International (UPI).
The E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University has been named for him.
Early life
E. W. Scripps was born and raised in Rushville, Illinois, and James Mogg Scripps of London and Julia Adeline Osborne (third wife) from New York.
E. W., as with many businessmen of his day, went by his initials rather than putting out his first and middle name. "Wyllis" was often associated with his middle name.
According to his personal assistant Gilson Gardner, E.W. was a prolific drinker of whisky and cigars, and he was found to drink a gallon (3.79 L) each day when smoking a lit cigar at any awakened hour.
Later life
He began building a house in San Diego, where his half-sister lived nearby, hoping that the dry, warm weather would improve his lifelong allergic rhinitis. He built it as a winter home to escape West Chester's (Butler County), Ohio, winter weather, but he stayed there year-round and carried out his newspaper operations from the ranch. His ranch was embraced by Scripps Ranch, as well as Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.
He and his half-sister Ellen were the founding donors of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1903. Scripps was reluctant to invest in the venture at first because scientists could not be professional. However, he developed a strong friendship with William Emerson Ritter, the Institute's scientist, and the two began to plan programs for the Institute. As the institute began to flourish, he became a devoted supporter and expressed a keen interest in its work.
Scripps founded Science Service in 1921, later known as the Society for Science & the Public, with the aim of keeping the public informed of scientific accomplishments. Because a large part of Scripps College's endowment derives from the media fortune they had earned, the college has been named in honor of his half-sister, Ellen Browning Scripps.
Scripps died onboard his yacht Ohio on March 12, 1926, when it lay anchored in Monrovia Bay, Liberia. Samuel H. Scripps (1927 – 2007), his grandson, who became a leading philanthropist for theater and dance in America in the late twentieth century, was one of his ancestors.
Newspaper career
Both E. W. and his half-sister Ellen began The Detroit News in 1873 with his older half-brother James. At the time, E. W. was still an office kid at the newspaper. E. W., with loans from his half-brothers, founded The Penny Press in Cleveland in 1878. He continued to start or buy 25 newspapers with financial assistance from sister Ellen. This was the start of a media empire that now calls itself the E. W. Scripps Company.
Scripps founded United Press Associations, now United Press International (UPI), 1907, in 1907, one of the smaller regional news services. Scripps continued, "I consider my life's greatest service to the people of this country to be the establishment of the United Press," to give the Associated Press a leg up on the Associated Press.
Scripps believed in editorial autonomy, stating: Scripps believed in editorial autonomy.