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Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher. He and his sister Ellen Browning Scripps founded The E. W. Scripps Company, today a diversified media conglomerate, as well as the United Press news service (which became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service (INS) merged with United Press in 1958).
The E. W. Scripps Company was a newspaper company founded on November 2, 1878, when Edward Willis Scripps published the first issue of the Cleveland Penny Press. [4]In 1894, Scripps and his half-brother, George H. Scripps, organized their various papers into the first modern newspaper chain.
Ellen Browning Scripps was born on October 18, 1836, on South Molton St. in St. George Parish, London. Her father, James Mogg Scripps (1803–1873), was the youngest of six children born to London publisher William Armiger Scripps (1772–1851) and Mary Dixie (1771–1838).
Scripps Cottage, part of the campus of San Diego State University in San Diego, California, U.S. Scripps Formation, a geologic formation in coastal San Diego County, California; Scripps Heights, heights on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica; Scripps Mansion, personal estate of William Edmund Scripps in Lake Orion, Michigan, U.S.
Scripps League Newspapers, Inc. was a newspaper publishing company in the United States founded by Josephine Scripps in 1921 and managed beginning in 1931 by her son Ed Scripps (1909–1997). [1] Based in Herndon, Virginia , the chain was separate from the larger E. W. Scripps Company begun by Ed's grandfather, Edward Willis Scripps .
Scripps was an avid aviator and promoted aviation through his father's newspaper, The Detroit News, which he helped run from 1929–1952. In 1913, Scripps flew a Curtis Model F flying boat underneath the original Belle Isle Bridge. [8] Scripps invited Amelia Earhart to Lake Orion in 1929, where she successfully tested an experimental glider.
In 1977, the First Amendment Edward Willis Scripps Award was inaugurated. "Given to the editor of the winning newspaper for distribution to the individual or individuals on the staff who contributed most significantly to the cause of the First Amendment guarantee of a free press," [ 9 ] the award is now known as "Distinguished Service to the ...
It was owned by E. W. Scripps and in 1920 was transferred to Scripps McRae League of Newspapers (later Scripps-Canfield League), after a falling-out within the Scripps family. [ citation needed ] The company, which eventually became Scripps League Newspapers, Inc. , owned the paper until 1942, when it was sold to a group of local Seattle ...