| Roy W. Howard | |
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| Born | Roy Wilson Howard January 1, 1883 (1883-01) Gano, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | November 20, 1964(1964-11-20) (aged 81) New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | newspaperman |
| Employer | E. W. Scripps Company |
| Known for | President of E. W. Scripps Company and United Press; Chairman of Scripps Howard Newspapers |
| Family | Jack R. Howard (son) |
Roy Wilson Howard (January 1, 1883 – November 20, 1964) was an American newspaperman with a long association with E. W. Scripps Company. He was president of E. W. Scripps Company and the United Press, and chairman of Scripps Howard Newspapers.
He began his newspaper career as a paperboy in Indianapolis, Indiana, but quickly moved up. He was a reporter for the Indianapolis Star and became New York correspondent for Scripps-McRae Newspapers. He quickly made a name for himself and in 1912 worked his way up to president of United Press.
During the First World War, he served as a war correspondent in Europe and accidentally sent a false report of the Armistice of 11 November 1918|Armistice]] four days before it was actually signed. 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.
He moved to Scripps newspapers in 1920, and by 1922, he was leading 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.
Despite his management role, he continued to work as a reporter. In 1933, he went to Manchuria to cover the Sino-Japanese War and interviewed Puyi, the puppet emperor of Manchukuo. He also met with Japanese Emperor Hirohito. In 1936, he interviewed Joseph Stalin.
A digitized archive of his personal papers is available via Indiana University.
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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Notes
- 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
- Scripps Howard News Service Will Close Down After 96 Years, Bloomberg News, November 13, 2013. Accessed April 5, 2015.
- "Syndicate Changes Name". The New York Times. November 4, 1922. p. 28.
- 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.
- "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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