Theodore (Ted) Newhouse, publisher; born July 19, 1903, died November 28,1998
Theodore Newhouse, an expert in newspaper management and production who helped build one of the world's largest news organisations, died on Saturday after a long illness. He was 95.
Newhouse was associate publisher of the Newhouse newspaper group and with his brothers, Norman and Samuel I Newhouse, built and operated the family-owned enterprise.
Today, the Newhouse holdings include 26 newspapers in 22 cities; the Conde Nast magazine group; Parade, the Sunday newspaper supplement; American City Business Journals, a group of business newspapers published in more than 30 major cities in America; and interests in cable television programming and cable systems serving one million homes.
The Newhouse brothers helped develop and institute such innovative newspaper management policies as local autonomy for publishers and editors of group-owned newspapers. Samuel I Newhouse died in 1979, and Norman Newhouse died in 1988.
The company is now run by
S I Newhouse's sons, Samuel I Jr, the chairman, and Donald, the president, who is also chairman of the board of directors of the Associated Press.
Donald Newhouse said on Saturday his uncle had a ''great love of life'', including a passion for wine and classical dance.
Donald Newhouse also said of his uncle: ''He had a complete knowledge of newspapers and was very direct and forthright. He called it like he saw it.''
He donated to a variety of cultural groups, including the New York City Opera and Jacob's Pillow in the Berkshires, where he studied dance for two summers in the 1920s with its founder, Ted Shawn. A lover of the arts, he travelled widely and collected paintings and sculptures.
He was born on in Bayonne, New Jersey. As a child, he hawked newspapers and scrounged for coal and firewood.
In 1956, several years after the death of his first wife, Beatrice, Ted Newhouse married Caroline Herz, an artist, sculptor and designer. They lived in Manhattan and Roxbury, Connecticut.
In addition to his wife and a sister, Estelle, he leaves two grand-daughters, Julie Lobel and Amy Bermant Adler; and six great-grandchildren. A daughter, Jane Berman, predeceased him.
