Roy W. Howard

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Roy W. Howard
Scripps Howard Newspapers
FamilyJack R. Howard (son)

Roy W. Howard (January 1, 1883 – November 20, 1964) was an American newspaperman with a long association with

Scripps Howard Newspapers
.

He began his newspaper career as a

United Press
.

During the

First World War, he served as a war correspondent in Europe, and accidentally sent a false report of the Armistice four days before it was actually signed.[1] Howard's reputation survived and in 1917 he became a Scripps partner, whose name appeared in one of the Scripps subsidiary companies, the Scripps Howard News Service.[2]

He moved to Scripps newspapers in 1920, and, by 1922, he was leading the company, E. W. Scripps Company a position he kept for four decades. On November 3, 1922, the Scripps-McRae League was renamed Scripps-Howard Newspapers to recognize Howard.[3]

Despite his management role, he continued to work as a reporter; in 1933 he went to

Joseph Stalin
.

A digitized archive of his personal papers is available via Indiana University.[5]

Two awards presented during the National Journalism Awards/Scripps Howard Awards were named in honor of Howard, including the Public Service Reporting Award (1972–2016) and the Excellence in Innovation Award (est. 2012).

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References

Notes

  1. ^ Days before the end of the First World War, Canadians celebrated in the streets. But it was thanks to fake news, by Katie Daubs, in the Toronto Star; published November 3, 2018; retrieved November 4, 2018
  2. ^ Scripps Howard News Service Will Close Down After 96 Years, Bloomberg News, November 13, 2013. Accessed April 5, 2015.
  3. ^ "Syndicate Changes Name". The New York Times. November 4, 1922. p. 28.
  4. ^ Beard, Patricia (2016). Newsmaker: Roy W. Howard, the Mastermind Behind the Scripps-Howard News Empire From the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 171–173.
  5. ^ "Roy W. Howard Archive". sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-11.

Sources consulted

  • Beard, Patricia. Newsmaker: Roy W. Howard, The Mastermind Behind the Scripps-Howard News Empire from the Gilded Age to the Atomic Age (Lyons Press, 2016), 325 pp.
  • Casey, Ralph D. "Scripps-Howard Newspapers in the 1928 Presidential Campaign." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 7.3 (1930): 209–231.
  • Daniel, Douglass K. "They liked Ike: Pro-Eisenhower publishers and his decision to run for president." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 77.2 (2000): 393–404.

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