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class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr..jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="220" data-file-height="330" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Solomon Isadore Neuhaus</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1895-05-24</span>)</span>May 24, 1895<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">August 29, 1979<span style="display:none">(1979-08-29)</span> (aged 84)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">New York City, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Founder of <a href="/wiki/Advance_Publications" title="Advance Publications">Advance Publications</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Mitzi Epstein (1924–1979)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Jr." title="Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr.">Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr.</a> (1927-2017) <br /><a href="/wiki/Donald_Newhouse" title="Donald Newhouse">Donald Newhouse</a> (Born 1929)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Newhouse" title="Charlotte Newhouse">Charlotte Newhouse</a> (great-niece)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.</b> (born <b>Solomon Isadore Neuhaus</b>; May 24, 1895 – August 29, 1979)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American broadcasting businessman, as well as a <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspaper</a> <a href="/wiki/Publisher" class="mw-redirect" title="Publisher">publisher</a>. He was the founder of <a href="/wiki/Advance_Publications" title="Advance Publications">Advance Publications</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr.&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Newhouse was born Solomon Isadore Neuhaus in a <a href="/wiki/Tenement" title="Tenement">tenement</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Lower_East_Side" title="Lower East Side">Lower East Side</a> of <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, the eldest of eight children born to <a href="/wiki/Jewish_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish people">Jewish</a> immigrants.<sup id="cite_ref-CNNMoneySi&Don_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNNMoneySi&Don-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father, Meier Neuhaus, was an immigrant from <a href="/wiki/Vitebsk" title="Vitebsk">Vitebsk</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Belarus" title="Belarus">Belarus</a>); and his mother, Rose (née Arenfeldt), was from <a href="/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austria-Hungary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizen_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meier Neuhaus later adapted his name to Meyer Newhouse.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizen_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although his father had studied to become a rabbi, he was unskilled and only worked occasionally due to poor health. The family moved to <a href="/wiki/Bayonne,_New_Jersey" title="Bayonne, New Jersey">Bayonne, New Jersey</a> where his mother supported the family by peddling linens and in 1908, his father abandoned the family for health reasons to live with his sister in Connecticut.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizen_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Newhouse quit school and enrolled in a six-week bookkeeping course at the Gaffrey School in Manhattan which enabled him to secure a job as an office boy working for Hyman Lazarus, a lawyer, police court judge, and politician in Bayonne. At age sixteen, he was promoted to office manager of Lazarus' law firm.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizen_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr.&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Noting Newhouse's work ethic and enthusiasm, Lazarus had Newhouse manage the money-losing Bayonne Times (a local newspaper in which Lazarus had acquired a majority interest, due to an unpaid legal bill), allowing Newhouse to keep half of the profits if successful.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizen_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Newhouse quickly determined that the paper was not earning enough fees from advertisements, and personally solicited new advertisers while also assisting them in planning the timing of store sales. The paper returned to profitability, and he received a 20 percent ownership interest as payment (after continued success, his share increased to 50 percent). Later, he decided to attend law school in the evenings; in 1916, he graduated from the New Jersey Law School (now <a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Law%E2%80%93Newark" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers School of Law–Newark">Rutgers School of Law–Newark</a>). His career in the practice of law was short-lived: he was so humiliated after losing the one case he took to trial that he paid his client the full amount of the damages he had requested.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizen_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, thanks to his support, <a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Law-Newark" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers School of Law-Newark">Rutgers School of Law-Newark</a> is presently housed in the S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice. </p><p>In 1922, taking all his personal savings and partnering with Lazarus, he bought 51 percent of the <a href="/wiki/Staten_Island_Advance" title="Staten Island Advance">Staten Island Advance</a> for $98,000 and soon returned the paper to profitability. In 1924, Lazarus died and Newhouse purchased Lazarus's share from his widow as well as the 49 percent that he and the judge did not own. Newhouse began to expand his empire, purchasing, merging, and returning to profitability numerous papers.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizen_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Business_strategy">Business strategy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr.&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Business strategy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Newhouse focused on purchasing bargain-priced papers in growing communities. He had no interest in starting new papers or in unrelated ventures, even declining an offer to purchase the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a>. He typically acquired a city's oldest newspaper and then purchased the city's second newspaper, thereby allowing him to set advertising rates.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Although he generally promised to keep both papers in business and in competition, he typically merged the two, generally closing the afternoon paper and keeping the morning, effectively establishing a <a href="/wiki/Monopoly" title="Monopoly">monopoly</a>, then used the profits to purchase additional newspapers.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizen_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Newhouse largely ran his various interests out of a brown leather briefcase and kept key figures in his head, even as his acquisitions grew into an empire of 20 newspapers, as well as numerous magazines, radio stations and television stations. He never had what could be called a formal headquarters; for many years, Advance Publications' corporate address was the same as that of the <i>Staten Island Advance.</i><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Timeline_of_acquisitions">Timeline of acquisitions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr.&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Timeline of acquisitions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1932: <i><a href="/wiki/Long_Island_Daily_Press" title="Long Island Daily Press">Long Island Daily Press</a></i></li> <li>1935: <i>Newark Ledger</i></li> <li>1939: <i>Newark Star Eagle</i> merged with <i>Newark Ledger</i> to form the <i><a href="/wiki/The_Star-Ledger" title="The Star-Ledger">Newark Star-Ledger</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1939: <i><a href="/wiki/Syracuse_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="Syracuse Herald">Syracuse Herald</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Syracuse_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Syracuse Journal">Syracuse Journal</a></i> (merged)</li> <li>1941: <i><a href="/wiki/Syracuse_Post-Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Syracuse Post-Standard">Syracuse Post-Standard</a></i></li> <li>1945: <i><a href="/wiki/Jersey_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Jersey Journal">Jersey Journal</a></i></li> <li>1947: <i>Harrisburg News</i>, and <i>Harrisburg Patriot</i> (later merged into <i><a href="/wiki/The_Patriot-News" title="The Patriot-News">The Patriot-News</a></i>).</li> <li>1949: <i><a href="/wiki/Advance_Publications_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Advance Publications Inc.">Advance Publications Inc.</a></i> formed as the primary holding company for all his newspaper assets.<sup id="cite_ref-FundingUniverse_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FundingUniverse-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1950: <i><a href="/wiki/Portland_Oregonian" class="mw-redirect" title="Portland Oregonian">Portland Oregonian</a></i></li> <li>1955: <i><a href="/wiki/The_Birmingham_News" title="The Birmingham News">The Birmingham News</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Huntsville_Times" title="The Huntsville Times">The Huntsville Times</a></i> and the <i><a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Globe-Democrat" title="St. Louis Globe-Democrat">St. Louis Globe-Democrat</a></i></li> <li>1959: <i><a href="/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast_Publications" class="mw-redirect" title="Condé Nast Publications">Condé Nast Publications</a></i> purchased for $5 million at the suggestion of his wife. According to Newhouse, "She asked for a fashion magazine and I went out and got her <a href="/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)" title="Vogue (magazine)">Vogue</a>." Condé Nast also published <i><a href="/wiki/Glamour_(magazine)" title="Glamour (magazine)">Glamour</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/House_%26_Garden_(magazine)" title="House & Garden (magazine)">House & Garden</a></i>, and <i>Young Bride</i>. He soon purchased another magazine publisher, <i><a href="/wiki/Street_%26_Smith" title="Street & Smith">Street & Smith</a></i> and merged it with <i>Condé Nast</i>, becoming a major magazine publisher.<sup id="cite_ref-FundingUniverse_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FundingUniverse-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1961: <i><a href="/wiki/Oregon_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Oregon Journal">Oregon Journal</a></i></li> <li>1962: <i><a href="/wiki/Times-Picayune" class="mw-redirect" title="Times-Picayune">Times-Picayune</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/States-Item" class="mw-redirect" title="States-Item">States-Item</a></i>, both in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans,_Louisiana" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans, Louisiana">New Orleans, Louisiana</a> (merged in 1980)</li> <li>1967: <i><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Plain_Dealer" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland Plain Dealer">Cleveland Plain Dealer</a></i></li> <li>1976: he purchased <a href="/wiki/Booth_Newspapers" class="mw-redirect" title="Booth Newspapers">Booth Newspapers</a> for $305 million, a chain of eight dailies in <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ann_Arbor_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Ann Arbor News">Ann Arbor News</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bay_City_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Bay City Times">Bay City Times</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flint_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Flint Journal">Flint Journal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grand_Rapids_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Rapids Press">Grand Rapids Press</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Citizen_Patriot" title="Jackson Citizen Patriot">Jackson Citizen Patriot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalamazoo_Gazette" title="Kalamazoo Gazette">Kalamazoo Gazette</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muskegon_Chronicle" title="Muskegon Chronicle">Muskegon Chronicle</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Saginaw_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Saginaw News">Saginaw News</a>) as well as the Sunday supplement <a href="/wiki/Parade_(magazine)" title="Parade (magazine)">Parade</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr.&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was married to arts patron and philanthropist Mitzi Epstein (April 30, 1902 – June 29, 1989),<sup id="cite_ref-CNNMoneySi&Don_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNNMoneySi&Don-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who grew up in an upper middle class, Jewish family on the <a href="/wiki/Upper_West_Side" title="Upper West Side">Upper West Side</a>, the daughter of a silk tie importer.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizen_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They had two sons, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Jr." title="Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr.">Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr.</a>, known as Si Newhouse, chairman of <i>Advance</i>, and <a href="/wiki/Donald_Newhouse" title="Donald Newhouse">Donald Newhouse</a>, president of Advance. </p><p>Samuel Newhouse resided in Manhattan for much of his life. In 1942, he bought Greenlands, a working farm of 143 acres in Harbourton, <a href="/wiki/Mercer_County,_New_Jersey" title="Mercer County, New Jersey">Mercer County, New Jersey</a>. In his privately published memoir, <i>A Memo to my Children</i>, he documented his often strained relationship with his two sons.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizen_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His great-grandson, S.I. Newhouse IV, is featured in a documentary called <i><a href="/wiki/Born_Rich_(2003_film)" title="Born Rich (2003 film)">Born Rich</a></i> about the experience of growing up as the heir to one of the world's greatest fortunes.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr.&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Newhouse died in 1979, aged 84, in New York City of a stroke.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon his death, he passed his voting common stock in the principal family company, <a href="/wiki/Advance_Publications" title="Advance Publications">Advance Publications</a>, in trust to his six grandchildren and made his two sons the sole trustees.<sup id="cite_ref-CNNMoneySi&Don_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNNMoneySi&Don-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the vessels of the <a href="/wiki/Staten_Island_Ferry" title="Staten Island Ferry">Staten Island Ferry</a> is also named after him, as was the <a href="/wiki/S.I._Newhouse_School_of_Public_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications">S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications</a> at <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice at <a href="/wiki/Rutgers_School_of_Law_%E2%80%93_Newark" class="mw-redirect" title="Rutgers School of Law – Newark">Rutgers School of Law – Newark</a>. He was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Irving_Newhouse_Sr.&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMarcusDaniels1993" class="citation book cs1">Marcus, Jacob Rader; Daniels, Judith M. (1993). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://media.americanjewisharchives.org/docs/concise/conciseDictionary.pdf"><i>The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_Union_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Hebrew Union College">Hebrew Union College</a>. p. 464.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Concise+Dictionary+of+American+Jewish+Biography&rft.pages=464&rft.pub=Hebrew+Union+College&rft.date=1993&rft.aulast=Marcus&rft.aufirst=Jacob+Rader&rft.au=Daniels%2C+Judith+M.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.americanjewisharchives.org%2Fdocs%2Fconcise%2FconciseDictionary.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASamuel+Irving+Newhouse+Sr." class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-CNNMoneySi&Don-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-CNNMoneySi&Don_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CNNMoneySi&Don_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-CNNMoneySi&Don_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLoomis1987" class="citation news cs1">Loomis, Carol J. (August 17, 1987). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1987/08/17/69427/index.htm">"The Biggest Private Fortune – Media magnates Si and Don Newhouse control a $7.5-billion empire. It's a tightly private show, but there's no hiding wealth this big"</a>. <i>Money Magazine</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 22,</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Money+Magazine&rft.atitle=The+Biggest+Private+Fortune+%E2%80%93+Media+magnates+Si+and+Don+Newhouse+control+a+%247.5-billion+empire.+It%27s+a+tightly+private+show%2C+but+there%27s+no+hiding+wealth+this+big&rft.date=1987-08-17&rft.aulast=Loomis&rft.aufirst=Carol+J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2Fmagazines%2Ffortune%2Ffortune_archive%2F1987%2F08%2F17%2F69427%2Findex.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASamuel+Irving+Newhouse+Sr." class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Citizen-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Citizen_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Citizen_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Citizen_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Citizen_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Citizen_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Citizen_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Citizen_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Citizen_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Citizen_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Citizen_3-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Carol Felsenthal. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/felsenthal-newhouse.html"><i>New York Times</i> review of <i>Citizen Newhouse: Portrait of a Media Merchant</i> (1998)</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Staff. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/30/archives/samuel-i-newhouse-publisher-dies-at-84-samuel-i-newhouse-builder-of.html">"Samuel I. Newhouse, Publisher, Dies at 84; Samuel I. Newhouse, Builder of an Empire in Newspapers and Broadcasting, Is Dead at 84 Relatives on the Payroll Some Takeover Bids Resisted Newhouse Beneficiaries Payment on a Bad Debt Newhouse Publications and Broadcast Stations"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, August 30, 1979.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nj.com/sussex-county/index.ssf/2013/06/star-ledger.html">New Jersey.Com: "Star-Ledger publisher says newspaper will close if unions don't give concessions" by Ted Sherman</a>, June 26, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FundingUniverse-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FundingUniverse_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FundingUniverse_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Advance-Publications-Inc-company-History.html">Funding Universe: Advance Publications Inc</a>; retrieved April 6, 2012</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://observer.com/2003/10/born-rich-rag">"Born Rich Rag"</a>, <i>New York Observer</i>, October 6, 2003</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Samuel I. Newhouse, Publisher, Dies at 84". <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. August 30, 1979. p. 1.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Samuel+I.+Newhouse%2C+Publisher%2C+Dies+at+84&rft.pages=1&rft.date=1979-08-30&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASamuel+Irving+Newhouse+Sr." class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://newhouse.syr.edu/about/history">"History"</a>. <a href="/wiki/S.I._Newhouse_School_of_Public_Communications" class="mw-redirect" title="S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications">S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-04-17</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=History&rft.pub=S.I.+Newhouse+School+of+Public+Communications&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnewhouse.syr.edu%2Fabout%2Fhistory&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASamuel+Irving+Newhouse+Sr." class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/03/11/74760/index.htm">"Fortune article on 1991 inductees to National Business Hall of Fame, listing Newhouse as a past inductee"</a>.</cite><span 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