Media titan Si Newhouse is dead at 89, family says

1 October 2017, 5:18 pm

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Media titan Samuel Irving “Si” Newhouse Jr. has died at 89.

His family says Newhouse, together with his brother Donald, owned Advance Publications, which owned properties including Condé Nast, dozens of newspapers across the United States, and a controlling stake in Discovery Communications.

Newhouse, who was Jewish, bought and remade The New Yorker and Details magazines, revived Vanity Fair and bought and sold the Random House book empire.

The family paid tribute to Newhouse on Sunday, describing him as “the first person to come to the office, arriving well before dawn” and a person who brought “visionary creative spirit coupled with no-nonsense business.”

Bob Sauerberg, president and CEO of Condé Nast, says that “today, we lost a giant.”

— AP