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11) Who owns more newspapers, Hearst or the Scripps-Howard group? (See THE PRESS.)
There was a strong journalistic tradition in the Scripps family. The boy's grandfather had published the London Literary Gazette. His great-uncle had published one of Illinois' first weekly newspapers. A cousin of his father's, John Locke Scripps, had founded the Chicago Tribune with Joseph Medill.
In 1873, the Detroit Tribune was burned out, and the outspoken tabloid News rose from its ashes. Edward Scripps worked up in three years from newsboy to legislative reporter. His sister Ellen Browning Scripps (TIME, Feb. 22, EDUCATION) joined the family group as rewriter and condenser. In after years, Edward...
Mr. Scripps' method of building newspapers was to lend money to promising men-young men-desirous of entering new publishing territory. If they made good, he had control of their property and policies. If they failed, they might pay him back whenever they could. He was not an insistent creditor...
Died. Edward Wyllis Scripps, 72, founder of the Scripps-Howard newspapers; aboard his yacht Ohio, off the coast of Liberia; of apoplexy. (See THE PRESS.)