Sandra Smart, a technology and commercialization specialist, shares helpful advice and cautionary tips about the importance of tracking cash flow for new or established businesses. John Oke-Thomas, architect and co-founder of minorities in business, responds to the accusation that minority businesses are only successful because of the priority they have received in lending. He says that if a business uses a loan well, it shows their worth.
Sandra Smart, a technology and commercialization specialist, shares tips for entrepreneurs who are ready to seek funding. Some of her tips apply broadly; some target technology industry businesses. Hollie Elliott discusses common misconceptions about locating your business in a small town.
She says that there are a lot of benefits that people may not consider. Drawing on his own experience dynamically evolving his company and business model, Jim Meinsen discusses when and how you might need to draw on new technology. John Oke-Thomas, longtime Springfield architect, discusses his philosophy on architecture. He says that future historians will be focused on the sustainability of our contemporary architecture.
Erin Hedlun, director of marketing and communications at Evangel University, says compassion is an important job skill. He got many of these ideas from James E. Scripps, an English immigrant who started the Detroit Evening News in At the time the Cleveland Penny Press was founded, most newspapers had a party affiliation.
They also sold for more than a penny, and many contemporaries were skeptical that the Press would succeed. Scripps' formula proved successful, however, and within weeks the Cleveland Penny Press had a circulation of approximately 10, It was not a profitable operation, however, until James E.
Scripps ordered E. As soon as the Penny Press was making money, E. Louis Chronicle. He then spent a year in St. Louis managing the paper.
He subsequently began taking on political corruption and winning circulation. From to James E. Scripps was in Europe receiving medical treatment while E. Although E. In E. Also in E. Scripps entered into a partnership with his business manager, Milton McRae; the two called their newspaper company the Scripps-McRae League. McRae handled day-to-day management of the papers and received one-third of the profits, while Scripps set editorial guidelines and long-term policy.
In , with his business running smoothly, Scripps began building a ranch outside of San Diego, California. This gave the group a controlling interest in the Cleveland Press. As his chain expanded, E. Scripps chose young, growing towns to start new newspapers.
He invested as little in machinery or plants as possible, usually buying old presses and renting run-down buildings. He would then hire young ambitious editors who were given a minority stake in their paper; many of them became rich if their newspapers succeeded. With E. Scripps spending most of his time in California, McRae often exceeded his authority and put editorial pressure on newspaper editors. Scripps would periodically venture out of California, discover what McRae was doing, and reverse it.
In George Scripps died, leaving his stock to E. James E. Scripps contested the will, however, and James E. In Scripps started the Newspaper Enterprise Association NEA , a service for exchanging and distributing illustrations, cartoons, editorials, and articles on such specialized subjects as sports and fashion.
Newspapers in the Scripps chain paid a monthly fee and received information and illustrations none of them could have afforded individually. Although the NEA was originally only for Scripps papers, demand for its services was so great that it soon became available to any newspaper.
A similar service, the Associated Press AP , already existed and was far larger and better financed. Scripps viewed AP as monopolistic and too close to the establishment and deliberately set out to oppose it. AP was also geared toward morning newspapers, while most of Scripps's were evening newspapers.
Scripps therefore had each of his papers send out stories from their area during the day and combined them with information gathered at offices set up in important news producing cities such as Washington, D. Scripps retired from active management, appointing his son James G. Scripps chairman of the board. During World War I, E. Shortly thereafter, a family crisis erupted, during which Scripps's son James detached the five West Coast newspapers and the Dallas Dispatch from the chain. In United Press caused a storm of controversy when it reported the end of World War I four days before it actually ended.
Scripps's health started declining during the war, and by its end he was largely living on his yacht. In he gave direct control of the chain to his son Robert and Roy W.
Howard and in incorporated all of his stock, news services, and newspapers into the E. Scripps Company, based in Cincinnati. The profits went to the Scripps Trust, set up for his heirs. Despite his semiretirement, Scripps had the energy to direct a last burst of expansion in the s. He made Roy Howard chairman and business director in Howard had played an important role in building the United Press. By , he was placed in full charge of both business and editorial by E.
The newspaper chain was renamed the Scripps Howard League. As demand for newspaper wire services grows, E. He views it as an anti-competitive device by conservative capitalists who, if left unchallenged, would stifle a free and open press for their own profit. Instead, in he creates United Press, later known as United Press International or UPI, to serve anyone who could afford a printing press, including his own toughest competitors.
United Press is credited with the first wire delivery of photos, the first wire designed for radio, the first use of computers, the first transmission of news over satellite and the first television news service. Scripps sells UPI in Scripps goes to Washington, D.
He puts his son, Robert P. Scripps, in charge and appoints him editor-in-chief. This is the beginning of the Scripps Washington Bureau, which today is an award-winning newsroom focused on investigative reporting.
This period of innovation also births new titles including the Rocky Mountain News and Knoxville News-Sentinel, formed from mergers of local newspapers. Scripps turns its syndication service into a commercial enterprise with United Feature Syndicate. The expanding Scripps newspaper empire introduces its first logo and motto in the s.
In May , the company adds the lighthouse emblem to its logo. Both the lighthouse and the motto are core to the Scripps identity today. It reaches an estimated 11 million students globally each year, providing them with the words they need for success.
Starting in , his beloved syndicated columns — in the form of letters home — appear in as many as newspapers nationwide.
In the fall of , Pyle travels to London to write about the Nazi bombing of the city and the air war known as the Battle of Britain. He travels with American forces in Africa and crafts his columns to reflect the daily life of ordinary soldiers in the drudgery and terror of war. Pyle endears himself not only to readers but to millions of soldiers, ultimately winning the Pulitzer Prize for his war reporting.
Established by Charles E. Scripps, Jack R. Howard and Edward W. Scripps Company, Scripps employees and retirees, and others. The Foundation supports philanthropic causes important to the company and the communities it serves, with an emphasis on excellence in journalism and childhood literacy. It is well known in journalism education through its generous donations that led to the creation of the E.
As cable grows in popularity with consumers, Scripps and Tele-Communications Inc. Five months later, the company begins distribution of news briefs on cable to 30, Evansville, Indiana, homes. Scripps later moves back to Nasdaq in In , Scripps begins delivering lifestyle content to a growing audience of consumers who are tuning in to cable. After 14 years of continued growth, Scripps spins off its cable networks and online shopping services into a separate publicly traded company, Scripps Networks Interactive.
In , Scripps consolidates its digital operations across its newspaper and broadcast operations into a single organization with a focus on capturing the digital audience and advertiser opportunity on web, mobile and other emerging platforms. Scripps merges its broadcast operations with those of Journal Communications, and the two companies spin off their respective newspapers to form a new public company, Journal Media Group.
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