Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. (born Solomon Isadore Neuhaus; May 24, 1895 – August 29, 1979) was an American broadcasting businessman, as well as a magazine and newspaper publisher. He was the founder of Advance Publications.
Early life
Newhouse was born Solomon Isadore Neuhaus in a tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the eldest of eight children born to Jewish immigrants. His father, Meier Neuhaus, was an immigrant from Vitebsk, then Russian Empire (now Belarus); and his mother, Rose (née Arenfeldt), was from Austria-Hungary. Meier Neuhaus later adapted his name to Meyer Newhouse.
- 1939: Syracuse Herald and Syracuse Journal (merged)
- 1941: Syracuse Post-Standard
- 1945: Jersey Journal
- 1947: Harrisburg News, and Harrisburg Patriot (later merged into The Patriot-News).
- 1949: Advance Publications Inc. formed as the primary holding company for all his newspaper assets.
- 1950: Portland Oregonian
- 1955: The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
- 1959: Condé Nast Publications purchased for $5 million at the suggestion of his wife. According to Newhouse, "She asked for a fashion magazine and I went out and got her Vogue." Condé Nast also published Glamour, House & Garden, and Young Bride. He soon purchased another magazine publisher, Street & Smith and merged it with Condé Nast, becoming a major magazine publisher.
Death and legacy
Newhouse died in 1979, aged 84, in New York City of a stroke. and the S.I. Newhouse Center for Law and Justice at Rutgers School of Law – Newark. He was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1989.