EW Scripps

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As per our current Database, EW Scripps is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).

🎂 EW Scripps - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

Currently, EW Scripps is 170 years, 6 months and 4 days old. EW Scripps will celebrate 171rd birthday on a Wednesday 18th of June 2025. Below we countdown to EW Scripps upcoming birthday.

🌙 Zodiac

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.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

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.

About

Founder of the self-named E.W. Scripps Company, which evolved into United Press International, and founder of the Cleveland Press newspaper.

Before Fame

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.

Trivia

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.

Family Life

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.

Associated With

He employed many renowned journalists, including Walter Jacobson.

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