Events leading up to the race project "were a real sea change..and it continues. Newhouse, meanwhile, is running in a much more conservative district where he regularly wins with more than 60 percent of the vote. New Yorker cover of November 15, 2010, titled Bumped, by artist Barry Blitt, follows mid-term elections depicting President Obama in the Oval Office with Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), then expected to replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. Post-Standard alumnus Jim Naughton, a former Washington Post and New York Times reporter now writing books, was a journalism undergraduate at Syracuse University in the late '70s. However, as part of the privately-held Advance Publications empire, and not having to worry about quarter-to-quarter pressures ofa publicly-held company, the Newhouse family could and did take the long view with Random House.Some believe Newhouse played a key role in pushing Random to bring on celebrity authors and blockbuster books that would do well in a more entertainment-driven marketplace. Newhouse works in a plainly furnished office at 30 Journal Square in Jersey City. Company Information; FAQ; Stone Materials. Vogue magazine cover with Hillary Clinton, December 1998, a tough time for the First Lady. - August 17, 1987", "Review of "Citizen Newhouse: Portrait of a Media Merchant", "Newhouse Foundation gives SU the school's largest donation ever", "Newhouse Foundation Announces Intention to Pledge $75 Million to Syracuse University's S.I. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he has an estimated net worth of $19.4 billion. A Conversation With The First Under Secretary Of Commerce For Minority Business Development, Donald Don R. Cravins, Jr. At the end of the interview Mr. Wrobleski became very evasive as to coverage of my campaign. He said he would see how my campaign "develops" and asked me to stay in touch with him by telephone and e-mail. My answer brings an apologetic smile. Vogues Sept 2007 fashion issue, featuring actress and model Sienna Miller on its cover. N. R. Kleinfield, The Media Business; Heads Have a History of Rolling at Newhouse, New York Times, November 2, 1989. Donald Newhouse. Beyond Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, the Newhouse enterprise continued to extend its reach in the magazine business. The New Yorker, Feb 25, 1985, featuring famous mascot, Eustace Tilley, about the time S. I. Newhouse acquired it. He personally escorts me up the several flights from the building's narrow lobby, then asks if I want something to drink. Two New Yorker covers in 2010 hit BPs Gulf of Mexio oil spill one from the June 7, 2010 issue that showed a man in a suit testifying before a Congressional-like panel of oil-saturated marine animals, and five weeks later, offering a visual play on Escher-like imagery, titled After Escher: Gulf Sky and Water, by artist Bob Staake, which reportedly lit up the blogosphere, as Staake cleverly modified the original Escher to include oil-drenched Gulf wildlife, with a pelican at the top and a turtle at the bottom. [17], S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, "Newhouse family enters cable's top tier", "THE BIGGEST PRIVATE FORTUNE Media magnates Si and Don Newhouse control a $7.5-billion empire. interview was, at his request, done by phone. And a few weeks later Newhouse made a $40 million bid for the paper, which appeared to be accepted. Last year Staten Island Advance reporter Tevah Platt did a story on a Jena 6 demonstration organized and led by my pastor Rev. Vanity Fair stories had cultural and current affairs impact, too. Johnson (Franklin Templeton) - Republican 17. They used to joke that the corporate headquarters was in S.I. Not all families stay on the same side of the political spectrum 15 support candidates from both parties. Within the last five or so years, he says, the Times-Picayune has made "substantial progress in coverage of racial issues." Newhouse School of Public Communications, which will be the largest gift in the University's 150-year history. donald newhouse political affiliationdid peter florrick sleep with geneva pine American City Business Journals, Wiki-pedia.org. ?hat's a far cry from the paper that, in the mid-1970s, made a list of the country's 10 worst large-circulation dailies compiled by More, a since-closed journalism review. Penny Pritkzer, part of the family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain, became President Obamas Commerce Secretary in June 2013. She is right. I admire her for trying. Giving S.I. They need the courage to say, 'That's not news.' 1 publisher of general books, the third largest magazine publisher, the fourth largest newspaper chain, and one of the top 15 cable TV providers. They had hired from what Naughton calls the first wave of the J-school boom, reporters who "were young..ambitious. As far as Tevah Platt is concerned, she is now assigned to community reporting on the North Shore of Staten Island. The Newspaper Collector, Time, July 27, 1962. Donald Newhouse. In 1966, Newhouse acquired three newspapers in Springfield, Massachusetts The Springfield Morning News, The Republican, and The Morning Union followed by three more in the south; The Mobile Register, The Mobile Press andThe Mississippi Press-Register. To Hall's credit, the Plain Dealer has undertaken several high-profile investigations. ", Meeker, on the other hand, says the new Oregonian seems more driven by the quest for prizes than the desire to cover Oregon. The acquisition of The New Yorker stunned the publishing world. I then talked to Balsamini by phone. Hegrew the business through acquisitions and by hiring some terrifically talented people. "It looks nicer," says James Neff, an investigative author and director of the Kiplinger Public Affairs Reporting Program at Ohio State University. Publisher Ashton Phelps Jr. and Editor Jim Amoss told readers that their hope was to bring people together "by talking unflinchingly about a subject that has us tongue-tied. I spoke to Stevie Lacy-Pendleton - at the time a shill for Mrs. Clinton (I think she is now for Obama). He boosted the business staff from one to six, then started a Sunday section and a Wednesday business front. Pamela G. Hollie, Newhouse to Acquire 17% of The New Yorker, New York Times, Wednesday, November 14, 1984, p. D-1. Trump has not yet posted to either account. As I've written previously, an easy grader in journalism school would have charitably given Wrobleski a C+. Vanity Fair at 25: The Covers, VanityFair .com, September 26, 2008. A glimpse into the lives of the richest, most prolific families in America, and how they builtand sustainedtheir empires. In early 1988, Details magazine was acquired, which was originally a somewhat quirky chronicle of Manhattans downtown art and club scene when Newhouse acquired it for $2 million, but was transformed into a young mens fashion and lifestyle magazine. The source was then fired from his job. In other newspaper business, Newhouse also sold the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in 1984. He and his son have donated to both parties, but they lean Republican. The singer has used social media to build her brand, and now has 107.8 million followers on Twitter and millions more on other social media platforms. Edgar L. "Dooky" Chase III is a business law professor at Dillard University in New Orleans. Felicity Barringer, The Media Business, Fashion Magazine Industry Consolidates with a Big Deal, New York Times, August 25, 1999. EMEA +44 20 7330 7500. I did. Most mornings, he is at his desk at the Star-Ledger building by 5:30 the best time to reach him, his secretary says. I am not going to try to shape their thought. Many others in the business followed his hands off example. Meanwhile, an older but reliable magazine on the newspaper side, Parade, was enjoying a growing readership base. Details may include related records, political party, location, and more. We're decentralized. He put staff members through diversity workshops. Depsite the concerns, things at The New Yorker continued pretty much as they had, asthe magazines integrity and qualitywere not compromised. Penn, who began shooting for Vogue magazine in 1943, did six successive covers for Vanity Fair in 1983, August through December 1983. Circulation there had fallen by nine percent to 223,000 copies and newsroom staff cuts of 40 percent followed. "They've got the necessary critical mass of talent, the commitment to spend money. Rihannas Super Bowl Halftime Show Is Blowing Up YouTube Did She Prove Donald Trump Wrong? Tina Brown had done so well at Vanity Fair that Si Newhouse decided in July 1992 to make her editor of The New Yorker, hoping to give that magazine a bit of Vanity Fairs sharper edge. Ashlee Vance explores innovations in new tech, software, engineering, and science in places outside of Silicon Valley. Jeannine F. Hunter, Cox Communica- tions May Swap Myrtle Beach, S.C., System to Time Warner, Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, March 28, 1996. Michael Hogan, Our Man Dominick, Vanity Fair, November 2009. Fishmans New York piece explained how Si Newhouse had grown up in the magazine business and loved magazines, and how it pained him personally to close them down. Bunn, 48, hadn't known Rogers in Florida. Newspapers the stock and trade of the Newhouse rise were also in trouble by this time. But under Browns direction, Vanity Fair began to show itself in a new way, offering a range of new cover subjects, stories and photography. Lauder - Both 13. ", "It's an unusual era we're in," Tiner says. Jack Doyle, Rockwell & Race, 1963-1968 (Rockwell art at Saturday Evening Post & Look magazines), PopHistoryDig.com, Sep-tember 23, 2011. But on a midsummer day as the sun is just bleaching the sky, he has no desire to talk about the dramatic improvement of several of those papers. It was the official unveiling in June of its new $200 million printing plant. Donald Newhouse, Jay Perkins, a journalism professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, offers a mixed view. "Our budget has nearly doubled in that period.". He reneged. Trend-watchers have a term for adults who move back to their hometowns after success in bigger places: rubber banders. Ms. Lacy-Pendleton suggested that I write a ltter to the editor. Its a Tightly Private Show, But Theres No Hiding Wealth This Big, Fortune, August 17, 1987, p. 60. In 2005, came some juicy celebrity exclusives the big post-prison interview with diva Martha Stewart in August, followed by the first interview with Jennifer Anniston after her divorce from Brad Pitt in September titled, The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston, with Anniston on the cover. But Newhouse made a counter offer of $47 a share, which the Booth group accepted. Here are the political affiliations of Americas 50 richest families, ranked according to wealth: 16. No small part of the deal was Parade magazine. The following year he set another industry record when he paid $54.2 million fortheCleveland Plain-Dealer. Brown, an Oxford University graduate, had given The Tatler a more modern and satirical edge, and it appeared thats what Newhouse had in mind for Vanity Fair as well. What was once the reliable center of the Newhouse empire at least with respect to its revenue-generating power had become something of an albatross by the mid- and late 2000s. [1], Newhouse's father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and began the family media business. Four of those cover shots, which featured celebrity authors and actors, are shown here at right from top left: novelist Philip Roth, September 1983; writer and playwrightSusan Sontag, October 1983; European writer, Francine du Plessix Gray, November 1983; andcomedian-in-disguise, Woody Allen, December 1983. Senators Harry Reid and Claire McCaskill. Newhouse had also offered some $500 million in backing to QVC, thenin a 1993 bid for Paramount film studios, which QVC later lost to Viacom. Nor did he impose any particular ideology or editorial line on his managers and editors, and for the most past, he maintained political neutrality.