Word: scrippses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nor do Scripps's grandsons, who inherited his empire and vote 80% of Scripps-Howard stock, trespass on editorial prerogative. In fact, they are scarcely interested. From the chain's third head quarters in Cincinnati. Grandson Charles W. Scripps. 42, board chairman of the controlling E. W. Scripps...
Flourish or Flounder. The calculated result of such hands-off supervision is a press confederacy whose members take strength from association but are permitted to flourish or flounder almost entirely on their own. Scripps-Howard papers do both, in a pattern as diversified as the U.S. press at large. Items...
>In Cincinnati, the two Scripps-Howard papers are so independent that the chain does not consider Cincinnati a true monopoly, although it owns the only two dailies in town. The morning Enquirer has been a chain possession since 1956, but Publisher Roger Ferger does not go to the annual meetings...
However handsomely the Scripps-Howard chain as a whole meets its found er's injunction to show a profit, it frequently falls short of what he would have liked it to be. Its canned editorials not only relieve the editors of reaching their own conclusions about national and inter...
Now and then, some chain member still flashes signs of the old crusading fire, historically a hallmark of Scripps-Howard papers. Two Scripps-Howard Washington reporters dug up some of the first pay dirt in the Billie Sol Estes scandal. The Wash ington Daily News has crusaded loudly against expensive...