Donald E. Newhouse, the billionaire media mogul who for decades ran the lucrative if low-profile newspaper division of Advance Publications, providing a steady hand and an open wallet for newsrooms that won dozens of Pulitzer Prizes and other awards, died on Tuesday (May 26) at his estate in Lambertville, New Jersey. He was 96.
His son Steven, a co-president of Advance, confirmed the death, from lymphoma.
Donald and his older brother, Samuel I. Newhouse Jr., better known as Si, inherited a media empire from their father, Samuel I. Newhouse, who started with the Staten Island Advance in 1922 and gradually built his company into one of the world’s largest privately held media conglomerates before his death in 1979.
