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Biography of Samuel Irving NewhouseName: Samuel Irving NewhouseBirth Date: May 24, 1895 Death Date: August 29, 1979 Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: publisher, media owner Samuel Irving Newhouse Samuel Irving Newhouse (1895-1979) built a multimillion-dollar newspaper, magazine, and radio/ television/cable empire--which his sons Samuel Jr. and Donald continued--by following the trend away from a largely political, crusading press and toward a commercial, profit-oriented media of great enterprises.Born on May 24, 1895, in New York's Lower East Side, Samuel Irving (usually called S.I.) Newhouse followed a Horatio Alger pattern of rags-to-riches by combining remarkable drive, memory for figures, and talent for picking subordinates with a grass-roots sense of pleasing advertisers and the public.Newhouse grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey. The oldest of eight children in a Russian immigrant family whose father failed at business, he left school at 13 to become the principal breadwinner. Soon he became involved in nursing the troubled Bayonne Times newspaper to health, learning lessons that he applied in later life.The key was raising revenue by gaining retail advertising through aggressive salesmanship, …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…while buying or reviving such famous media enterprises as Random House publishing, the New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. Further Reading Newhouse consciously discouraged accounts of his life. An unauthorized, highly critical biography is Richard Meeker, Newspaperman: S.I. Newhouse and the Business of News (1983). A. J. Liebling, The Press (1960) offers general background. TIME (July 27, 1962) and Business Week (January 26, 1976) contain cover stories. Esquire (August 1959) and the Saturday Review (October 8, 1960) have short profiles. There were lengthy obituaries on August 30, 1979, in The New York Times and The Washington Post. The Wall Street Journal (February 12, 1982) surveys policy since Newhouse's death.Maier, Thomas, Newhouse: all the glitter, power, and glory of America's richest media empire and the secretive man behind it, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Meeker, Richard H., Newspaperman: S.I. Newhouse and the business of news, New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1983. Newhouse, Samuel I., A memo for the children, New York: s.n., 1980. |