"I learned how easy it was for any man to do what he wanted to do, provided he really wanted to do it badly enough."
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E. W. Scripps
Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926) was an American newspaper publisher. He and his sister Ellen Browning Scripps founded the E. W. Scripps Company, today a diversified media conglomerate, as well as the United Press news service (which became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service (INS) merged with United Press in 1958). The E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University is named for him.
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