Donald Newhouse

Donald Edward Newhouse (born 1929) is an American billionaire heir and business magnate. He owns Advance Publications, founded by his father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., in 1922, whose properties include Condé Nast (publisher of such magazines as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker), dozens of newspapers across the US (including The Star-Ledger, The Plain Dealer, and The Oregonian), cable company Bright House Networks and a controlling stake in Discovery Communications. According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of $11.8 billion.[1] He resides in New York City.[2]

Donald Newhouse
Born
Donald Edward Newhouse

1929 (age 90–91)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materSyracuse University
OccupationBusinessman
Net worthUS$13.4 billion (November 2019)[1]
TitlePresident, Advance Publications
Spouse(s)Susan Newhouse (1955–2015)
Children3
Parent(s)Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.
Mitzi Newhouse
RelativesSamuel Irving Newhouse Jr. (brother)

Early life

Newhouse's father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and began the family media business.[3] His mother, Mitzi Epstein, was an arts patron and philanthropist[4] who grew up in an upper middle class family on the Upper West Side, the daughter of a silk tie importer.[5] Donald Newhouse is Jewish, and was listed on the Jerusalem Post's list of the world's 50 richest Jews in 2010[6].

Philanthropy

In January 2020, Newhouse donated $75 million to the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at his Alma mater Syracuse University.[7][8] The communications school is named after his father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr.[9]

Personal life

Newhouse married Susan Marley in 1955, just after she had graduated from Wellesley College.[10][11] The couple had three children, all of whom now have children of their own.

  • Katherine Irene Newhouse - school teacher at the Town School in New York; married Dr. Joseph Patrick Mele in 1991.[12]
  • Michael Andrew Newhouse - assistant publisher of the Times of Trenton;[4] member of Associated Press board of directors since 2017;[13] married Elyse Sue Applebaum in 1988.[14] Elyse's brother, Scott Applebaum, is founder and CEO of Multispark, LLC. Elyse works as the president of global development at Advance's magazine company Conde Nast International.[15]
  • Steven O. Newhouse (b. 1957) - editor of the Jersey Journal;[4] married to Gina Sanders in 1993.[16]

The couple's primary residence was in New York City, but they often spent weekends on their farm in New Jersey. They remained married until her death in 2015 of primary progressive aphasia, the same rare disorder that afflicted his brother, Si Newhouse. [17][18]

References
  1. "Donald Newhouse". Forbes. 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  2. Meeker, Richard H. (1983). Newspaperman: S.I. Newhouse and the Business of News. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0899192009.
  3. Bond, Shannon (1 April 2015). "Newhouse family enters cable's top tier". Financial Times. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  4. CNN Money Magazine: "THE BIGGEST PRIVATE FORTUNE Media magnates Si and Don Newhouse control a $7.5-billion empire. It's a tightly private show, but there's no hiding wealth this big" By Carol J. Loomis August 17, 1987
  5. Carol Felsenthal. New York Times review of Citizen Newhouse: Portrait of a Media Merchant (1998)
  6. "The world's 50 Richest Jews: 41-50". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
  7. "Newhouse Foundation gives SU the school's largest donation ever". syracuse. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
  8. "Newhouse Foundation Announces Intention to Pledge $75 Million to Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications". SU News. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
  9. "SU announces $75 million pledge to Newhouse School". The Daily Orange - The Independent Student Newspaper of Syracuse, New York. 2020-01-13. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
  10. Syracuse.com: "For Susan Newhouse, late wife of publisher Donald Newhouse, Syracuse ties ran deep" by Ken Sturtz August 15, 2015
  11. Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power, & Glory of America's Richest Media Empire & the Secretive Man Behind It by Thomas Maier - May 1997, p.39
  12. New York Times: "Miss Newhouse, A Teacher, Weds" August 12, 1991
  13. "AP announces 4 new directors, 5 incumbents at annual meeting". Associated Press. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  14. New York Times: "Elyse Applebaum Married in Jersey" August 22, 1988
  15. Campden FB: "Advance Publications daughter-in-law promoted at Conde Nast" By Jessica Tasman-Jones 5 September 2014 09:52 AM
  16. New York Times: "WEDDINGS; Gina Sanders, Steven Newhouse" March 1, 1993
  18. "Susan Newhouse, wife of Advance's Donald Newhouse, dies". silive. August 15, 2015.
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