He is also a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.

Scripps had been a subscriber to an earlier news agency, also named United Press, that existed in the late 1800s, partly in cooperation with management of the original New York-based AP and partly in existential competition with two Chicago-based organizations also using the AP name ( as detailed at Associated Press and in AP's 2007 history, Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else, cited below ).

Scripps also hoped to make a profit from selling that news to papers owned by others.

It also sold UPI's photo library, which included the archives of predecessor Scripps photo agency Acme and the pictures and negatives of International News Photos, the picture component of Hearst's INS to the Bettman Archive.

He also serves as UC San Diego's vice chancellor for marine sciences and dean of the Graduate School of Marine Sciences, and is a professor of oceanography at Scripps.

Scripps also studies the interaction of the oceans with both the atmospheric climate and environmental concerns on terra firma.

The Consolidated Word List, also published by Scripps and available on the National Spelling Bee website, consists of all words used in the National Bee as far back as 1950.

Realizing that young women would also need a place of their own to learn, Booth's wife Ellen Scripps Booth pressured Booth into building a school for girls.

Tribune is also a minority ( 30 percent ) owner of the Food Network, along with majority partner Scripps Networks Interactive.

He is also on the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute, as well as being Professor of Genetics there.

Entropia also helped with research on AIDS with their FightAIDS @ Home project, which was operated in cooperation with The Scripps Research Institute.

He also produced two volumes of memoirs, as well as two volumes of recollections of his friendships and personal encounters with many of the leading figures of his time, including: Pablo Casals, Charlie Chaplin, Eugene Debs, John Dewey, Isadora Duncan, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Hemingway, H. L. Mencken, John Reed, Paul Robeson, Bertrand Russell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Santayana, E. W. Scripps, George Bernard Shaw, Carlo Tresca, Leon Trotsky, Mark Twain and H. G. Wells.

Scripps also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983.

The museum also provides the Smithsonian Ocean Portal, a complementary web site which provides regularly updated, original content from the museum ’ s research, collections, and Sant Ocean Hall as well as content provided by more than 20 collaborating organizations, including ARKive, Census of Marine Life, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Encyclopedia of Life, IUCN, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, National Geographic, NOAA, New England Aquarium, Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, Pew Charitable Trusts, SeaWeb, Save Our Seas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, World Heritage Marine Programme.

He is also a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.

He is also a member of the Scientific Board of Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.

* In 1987 she was received the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award, and was also inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York.

These well-to-do late-19th-century residents also funded the construction of a spate of churches, such as the Cass Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church ( 1883 ), the First Presbyterian Church ( 1889 ), the Trinity Episcopal Church ( 1890 ) ( built by James E. Scripps ), and the First Unitarian Church ( 1890 ).

The series also received the Overseas Press Club award for best business reporting from abroad, and the Scripps Howard Foundation award for business reporting, and the Blethen award for enterprise reporting.

Flick also praised the David Morales remix of the song, calling it " a vibrant, time-sensitive disco ditty ", while Howard Scripps from The Press of Atlantic City called it " an obvious girl-group ditty ", and added that it " is another potential hit ".

The team of Greenberg and Golic has also worked in other ESPN ventures, including a game show ( ESPN Bowling Night ), and coverage of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Scripps University is also named in his honor, since a large part of its endowment derives from his newspaper fortune.

Scripps also previously owned the Shop at Home home-shopping television network, which in turn owned five television stations.

The Dispatch Printing Co. collected advertising and circulation revenue, and paid most operating expenses for both papers, while Scripps owned The Citizen-Journal's circulation lists and independently operated that paper's editorial department.

On May 22, 2006, Scripps announced that it was to cease operations of the network and intended to sell each of Shop at Home's five owned and operated television stations.

The company's combined assets exceeded Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) ownership limits at the time, so CapCities decided to keep its CBS affiliates and change their affiliations to ABC, along with longtime ABC affiliates WPVI-TV ( channel 6 ) in Philadelphia and KTRK-TV ( channel 13 ) in Houston, and sold WFTS and ABC owned-and operated station in Detroit, WXYZ-TV ( channel 7 ), to the E. W. Scripps Company, while selling several other stations to minority-owned firms.

* The Keck Joint Science Department, operated jointly by Claremont McKenna College, Scripps College, and Pitzer College, also in Claremont

Formally named " United Press Associations " for incorporation and legal purposes, but publicly known and identified as United Press or UP, it was created by the 1907 uniting of three smaller news syndicates by the Midwest newspaper publisher E. W. Scripps.

Scripps Company controlled United Press until its absorption of William Randolph Hearst's smaller competing agency, INS, in 1958 to form UPI.

Beginning with the Cleveland Press, publisher E. W. Scripps ( 1854 – 1926 ) created the first chain of newspapers in the United States.

Because the then recently reorganized Associated Press refused to sell its services to several of his papers, most of them evening dailies in competition with existing AP franchise holders, in 1907 Scripps merged three smaller syndicates under his ownership or control, the Publishers Press Association, the Scripps-McRae Press Association, and the Scripps News Association, to form United Press Associations, with headquarters in New York City.

Drawing lessons from the battles between the earlier United Press and the various AP's, Scripps required that there be no restrictions on who could buy news from his news service, and he made the new UP service available to anyone, including his competitors.

Scripps ' United Press was considered " a scrappy alternative " news source to the AP.

United Press had no direct wirephoto service until 1952, when it absorbed co-owned Acme Newsphotos, under pressure from parent company Scripps to better compete with AP's news and photo services.

In the United States, these included the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1892, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1930, Virginia Institute of Marine Science in 1938, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, and the School of Oceanography at University of Washington.

According to the American Liberal Arts College Rankings released by U. S. News & World Report in fall 2011, the " 5Cs " were ranked among the top 50 colleges in the United States: Pomona College (# 4 ), Claremont McKenna College (# 9 ), Harvey Mudd College (# 18 ), Scripps College (# 23 ), and Pitzer College (# 42 ).

Scripps combined three smaller syndicates under his control into United Press Associations, INS battled the other major newswires.

In the United States, spelling bees are annually held from local levels up to the level of the Scripps National Spelling Bee which awards a cash prize to the winner.

The bee is affiliated with the United States-based Scripps National Spelling Bee and uses similar rules and word lists, and competes in all 10 Canadian provinces to provide a Canadian National Champion for the penultimate Scripps competition.

Those attending included: Jim Stewart ( Scripps Institution of Oceanography ), Lee Somers ( University of Michigan ), Mark Flahan ( San Diego State University ), Woody Southerland ( Duke University ), John Heine ( Moss Landing Marine Laboratories ), Glen Egstrom ( University of California, Los Angeles ), John Duffy ( California Department of Fish and Game ), and James Corry ( United States Secret Service ).

Many of the first generation of diving safety officers of the top universities, colleges and institutes of technology in the United States were NAUI members and made significant contributions to NAUI's programs, including: Lee Somers University of Michigan, James Stewart Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Richard Bell University of California, Davis, Henry Viex United States Military Academy, Lloyd Austin University of California, Berkeley, Mark Flahan California State University, San Diego, Phillip Sharkey University of Rhode Island, Ronnie D ' Amico California State University, Long Beach, Walt Hendricks, Sr. University of Puerto Rico, Glen Egstrom University of California, Los Angeles, and John Heine Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

The twenty-two equestrian units in the 2011 Rose Parade were the 1st Cavalry Fort Hood, All American Cowgirl Chicks, Benny Martinez Family, California State Firefighters ’ Association, Cowgirls Historical Foundation, Equine Extremist with Tommie Turvey, Giddy Up Gals Drill Team, Kern County Sheriffs Mounted Posse, Long Beach Mounted Police, Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament, New Buffalo Soldiers, Region One Arabians, Saving America's Mustangs Foundation, Scripps Miramar Saddlebreds, Southern California Peruvian Paso Horse Club, Spirit of the West Riders, The Shire Riders, United States Marine Corps Mounted Color Guard, Valley Hunt Club, Victorian Roses Ladies Riding Society, Wells Fargo, and Wild West Willie ( combined with Kern County Sheriffs Mounted Posse ).

In 1990, Scripps received an NEA Grant to research and organize and exhibition titled, " Paul Soldner: A Retrospective '" that traveled throughout the United States.

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Late in 1932, Pearson and Allen secured a contract with the Scripps – Howard syndicate, United Features, to syndicate a column called “ Washington Merry-Go-Round .” It first appeared in Eleanor " Cissy " Patterson ’ s Washington Herald on November 17, 1932.

Some of the first training started in 1952 at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography where Andy Rechnitzer, Bob Dill and Connie Limbaugh taught the first scuba courses in the United States, then in 1953 Trevor Hampton created the first British diving school, the British Underwater Centre and in 1954 when Los Angeles County created an Underwater Instructor Certification Course based on the training that they received from the scientific divers of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.