As per our current Database, EW Scripps is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).
Currently, EW Scripps is 169 years, 10 months and 15 days old. EW Scripps will celebrate 170rd birthday on a Tuesday 18th of June 2024. Below we countdown to EW Scripps upcoming birthday.
Popular As | EW Scripps |
Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Age | years old |
Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
Born | June 18, 1854 (Illinois) |
Birthday | June 18 |
Town/City | Illinois |
Nationality | Illinois |
EW Scripps’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
EW Scripps was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Founder of the self-named E.W. Scripps Company, which evolved into United Press International, and founder of the Cleveland Press newspaper.
He went to work for his half-brother in newspapers around the Midwest, eventually founding his own, the Cleveland (Ohio) Penny Press, which was later shortened to just the Cleveland Press.
His business model was to fund promising new journalists and to take controlling interest in any resulting successful publications. He then united them to form the wire service United Press.
He was born in Rushville, Illinois, the youngest of five children by James Mogg Scripps, who also had seven children from his previous two wives.
He employed many renowned journalists, including Walter Jacobson.