The E. W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) is an American media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its corporate motto is "Give light and the people will find their own way."

On October 16, 2007, the company announced that it would separate into two publicly traded companies: The E. W. Scripps Company (newspapers, TV stations, licensing/syndication) and Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE: SNI), (HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Cooking Channel [formerly known as Fine Living], Travel Channel and Great American Country). The transaction was completed on July 1, 2008.

On October 3, 2011 The E.W. Scripps Company announced it was purchasing the television arm of McGraw-Hill for $212 million. This purchase nearly doubles the number Scripps stations to 19 with a combined reach of 13% of U.S. households.

The Company owns and operates newspapers in 14 American markets. Scripps-owned newspapers:

Scripps owns the Scripps Howard News Service and, until 2011, operated United Media (composed of the United Feature Syndicate and the Newspaper Enterprise Association). United Feature Syndicate syndicated many notable comic strips including Peanuts, Garfield, Li'l Abner, Dilbert, Nancy and Marmaduke. NEA, originally established as a secondary news service to the Scripps Howard News Service, later evolved into a general syndicate, and were best known for syndicating Alley Oop, Freckles and His Friends, The Born Loser and Frank and Ernest, in addition to an annual Christmas comic strip. The distribution rights to properties syndicated by United Media was outsourced to Universal Uclick in February of 2011. While United Media effectively ceased to exist, Scripps still maintains copyrights and intellectual property rights.

Edward Willis Scripps (June 18, 1854 – March 12, 1926), was an American newspaper publisher and founder of The E. W. Scripps Company, a diversified media conglomerate, and United Press news service. It became United Press International (UPI) when International News Service merged with United Press in 1958. The E. W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University is named for him.

E. W. Scripps was born and raised in Rushville, Illinois, to James Mogg Scripps from London, and Julia Adeline Osborne (third wife) (1855 - 1937) from New York. E. W. was the youngest of five children born to James and Julia. James had seven children from previous marriages.

E. W., as with many businessmen of his day, went by his initials rather than writing out his first and middle name. His middle name is often incorrectly written as Wyllis.

Both E. W. and his half-sister Ellen worked with his older half-brother, James when he founded The Detroit News in 1873. E. W. started as an office boy at the paper. In 1878, with loans from his half-brothers, E. W. went on to found The Penny Press (later the Cleveland Press) in Cleveland. With financial support from sister Ellen, he went on to begin or acquire some 25 newspapers. This was the beginning of a media empire that is now the E. W. Scripps Company.

Eric Walter Elst is a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, with over 3,000 discovered so far (just 85 of these having been co-discovered).

Notable discoveries include the Apollo asteroid 4486 Mithra, the asteroid/comet 7968 Elst-Pizarro (133P/Elst-Pizarro), the asteroid 8191 Mersenne (1993 OX₉), and more than 25 Trojan asteroids.

The asteroid 3936 Elst was named in his honour.

Julia Keller is an American writer. She won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her account of the deadly April 2004 Utica, Illinois tornado outbreak, which was published in the Chicago Tribune, where Keller works as cultural critic. The newspaper has won many Pulitzer Prizes, but Keller's award was the first—and thus far, the only—time that the Tribune has won a Pulitzer in the feature writing category.

She has taught at Princeton University, Ohio State University and the University of Notre Dame, and has published two books. One is a cultural history of the 19th century, seen through the prism of the Gatling Gun and the life of inventor and businessman Richard Jordan Gatling; and a novel for young adults, narrated by a 13-year-old girl whose father suffers a traumatic brain injury while serving with the United States Armed Forces in Iraq.

Born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, Keller earned bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Marshall University and a doctoral degree in English Literature from Ohio State University. Her master's thesis was an analysis of the Henry Roth novel, "Call It Sleep." Her doctoral dissertation developed a poetics of literary biography by contrasting multiple biographies of Virginia Woolf.