Roy W. Howard (1883–1964) was an American newspaperman with a long association with E. W. Scripps Company. He was president of E. W. Scripps Company and the

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, and chairman of Scripps Howard Newspapers. He began his newspaper career as a paperboy in

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, but quickly moved up. He was a reporter for the ''

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'', then became New York correspondent for Scripps-McRae Newspapers. He quickly made a name for himself and, in 1912, had worked his way up to president of

. During the

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, he served as a war correspondent in Europe, and accidentally sent a false report of the Armistice four days before it was actually signed.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 ''

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''; published November 3, 2018; retrieved November 4, 2018 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.Scripps Howard News Service Will Close Down After 96 Years
Bloomberg News, November 13, 2013. Accessed April 5, 2015. 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. Despite his management role, he continued to work as a reporter; in 1933 he went to

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to cover the Sino-Japanese war, interviewing the puppet emperor of

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. He also met with Japanese Emperor Hirohito. In 1936 he interviewed

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

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* 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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1883 births 1964 deaths Writers from Indianapolis American male journalists {{US-journalist-stub

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