John S. Knight: Quick Facts


Facts

Also Known As John Shively Knight
Born October 26, 1894 • Bluefield • West Virginia
Died June 16, 1981 (aged 86) • Akron • Ohio
Founder Knight Ridder, Inc.

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Joseph Medill, detail of a lithograph by J.O. Ottomann Company, 1893.
Joseph Medill
American publisher
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Roy W. Howard
American journalist
William Allen White
William Allen White
American journalist
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
American editor, writer, and abolitionist
Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.
Joseph Pulitzer
American newspaper publisher
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Ellen Browning Scripps
American publisher and philanthropist
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Alicia Patterson
American journalist and publisher
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Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson
American poet and journalist
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A.S. Abell
American journalist
Fremont Lawson.
Fremont Lawson
American editor
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Frank I. Cobb
American journalist
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Vermont Royster
American journalist
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John Peter Zenger
American printer
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Ralph McGill
American journalist
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Isaiah Thomas
American journalist
George Creel.
George Creel
American journalist
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John Gill
American patriot
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Benjamin Edes
American publisher
Moore, Ely
Ely Moore
American journalist and politician
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John Fenno
American publisher and editor