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58-677: The Tribune-Review Publishing Company was owned by Richard Mellon Scaife , an heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, until his death in July 2014. Scaife was a major funder of conservative organizations, including the Arkansas Project . Accordingly, the Tribune-Review has maintained a conservative editorial stance, contrasting with the then-more liberal Post-Gazette before that paper's own editorial shift in 2018 and

116-676: A Free Congress), and the Club for Growth Inc. PAC. Scaife also funded the Western Journalism Center , headed by Joseph Farah . He was named to the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Top Political Activists". Scaife gave away an estimated $ 1 billion plus adjusted for inflation from his family fortune on philanthropy. He estimated that $ 620 million of this was "aimed at influencing American public affairs". The Washington Post called him "the leading financial supporter of

174-483: A bachelor's degree in English in 1957. Scaife inherited positions on several corporate boards in 1958 when his father Alan died unexpectedly. However, his family had become estranged from his uncle, R. K. Mellon, who retained control of the companies. His mother encouraged him to get involved in the family's philanthropic foundations, and he did so. (See management of Scaife family foundations .) He inherited much of

232-507: A new school of public policy at Pepperdine University . Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr was named the first dean of this school. Pepperdine has denied any connection between Scaife and the selection of Starr. Starr accepted the post in 1996, but in the ensuing controversy, he gave up the appointment in 1998 before ever having started at Pepperdine. After the investigation, Starr was appointed to head Pepperdine's law school in 2004, and became president of Baylor University in 2010. Scaife

290-548: A single ownership. Both papers continued separate publication until 1955, when they merged to form the Greensburg Tribune-Review . Scaife acquired the Tribune-Review in 1970, a decades after trying to acquire the Post-Gazette . From 1981 to 1982, he managed a short-lived eastern suburban newspaper, The Daily-Sunday Tribune . The Tribune-Review owns several satellite papers that insert or surround

348-487: A single title, the Tribune-Review . Home delivery was reduced in some parts of Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. Trib Total Media laid off 153 full and part-time workers from its staff of approximately 1,100, another 68 had accepted buyouts in October. The Pittsburgh edition of the Tribune-Review went all-digital after publishing its last print edition on November 30, 2016. The Greensburg-based Westmoreland edition and

406-485: A special investigator. Shaheen subpoenaed Scaife, who testified before a federal grand jury in the matter. In the fall of 2007, however, Ruddy published a positive interview with former President Clinton on Newsmax, followed by a positive cover story in the magazine. The New York Times noted with reference to the event that politics had made " strange bedfellows ". Newsweek reported that Ruddy praised Clinton for his Foundation 's global work, and explained that

464-736: A unionized newsroom and contract, was not affected. The company incorporated as Trib Total Media in the summer of 2005 and purchased Gateway Newspapers, a community publication group servicing approximately 22 communities, at the time, in and around Pittsburgh's Allegheny County. The company immediately laid off two managers. The exact number of proposed redundancies was not announced. In September 2005, Harrell announced his retirement as president of Tribune-Review Publishing Company, effective December 31, 2005. He had served as president since 1989. Several staff writers were laid off in December 2005 as two of Gateway's newspapers were discontinued. In May 2008,

522-578: Is water. Tarentum is bordered by East Deer Township to the west, Frazer Township to the northwest, Fawn Township to the north, Harrison Township to the northeast, and Brackenridge to the east. To the southeast, across the Allegheny River in Westmoreland County , are New Kensington (via Tarentum Bridge) and Lower Burrell . As of the 2000 census , there were 4,993 people, 2,170 households, and 1,306 families residing in

580-558: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review . In 2005, Scaife was number 238 on the Forbes 400 , with a personal fortune of $ 1.2 billion. By 2013, Scaife had dropped to number 371 on the listing, with a personal fortune of $ 1.4 billion. During his life, Scaife was known for his financial support of conservative public policy organizations over the past four decades. He provided support for conservative and libertarian causes in

638-545: The Advance Leader . Many of those papers were several decades old. The company also announced major changes to the remaining Gateway publications including a revamp of the Pennysaver in the communities that have Gateway newspapers. Several published reports say the remaining community newspapers would expand coverage to include areas no longer serviced by Gateway publications. Other Gateway newspapers will now serve

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696-544: The Allegheny River . Tarentum was an industrial center where plate glass and bottles were manufactured; bricks, lumber, steel and iron novelties, steel billets and sheets, sack and wrapping paper were also produced. The Pennsylvania Railroad operated a station in Tarentum; its rail line ran through the town. The population was 4,352 at the 2020 census . Two statues of Hebe , the Greek goddess of youth, are displayed by

754-739: The Leader Times of Kittanning and The Valley Independent of Monessen from Thomson Newspapers . In late 1997, Scaife's NewsWorks facility opened in the North Hills . In December 1997, the Tribune-Review company purchased the North Hills News Record , even though four months earlier, then-Trib president Ed Harrell told the Pittsburgh Business Times that the company was not interested in

812-542: The News Record . Nine months after purchasing the North Hills News Record from Gannett Company , Tribune-Review Publishing Co. announced the paper would be merged with the Pittsburgh Trib . The News Record was most successful during the newspaper strike of the early 1990s. At its demise, the North Hills News Record had a daily circulation of more than 16,000, nearly 1,000 less than its circulation before

870-631: The Post-Gazette and the Trib reached a deal for one company to deliver both papers. The Post-Gazette would begin delivering the Trib to most of the area with some exceptions. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. On June 20, 2008, Trib Total Media publicly announced it was closing several weekly newspapers in the Gateway Newspapers chain. The papers affected include: Bridgeville Area News , North Journal , McKnight Journal , Woodland Progress , Penn Hills Progress , Coraopolis-Moon Record and

928-716: The Post-Gazette in the Pittsburgh media market. Twelve years after Scaife's newspaper began publishing, the Post-Gazette reported major financial losses, and the unions representing its employees agreed to wage concessions to keep it afloat. Unlike Scaife, the owners of the Post-Gazette, the Block family, were unwilling to sustain major losses year after year. According to the Scaife divorce papers, Richard Scaife has consistently spent between $ 20 and $ 30 million per year to cover

986-549: The Press late that year. During this time, Scaife expanded operations of his newspaper into Pittsburgh. He essentially created a newspaper from the ground up and named it the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review while maintaining the Greensburg operation separately. He moved the Pittsburgh headquarters to the D. L. Clark building on Martindale Street on Pittsburgh's North Side . The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review continues to challenge

1044-658: The Tribune-Review ' s losses. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulation , the Tribune-Review has a combined 221,000 regional circulation, about 7,000 subscribers fewer than its competitor. In 2005, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review announced that operations of its suburban editions would be consolidated, with "staff reductions" in the newsrooms, business, and circulation departments. Two managers were laid off immediately along with several other staff members later in 2005. With Scaife as publisher,

1102-659: The Tribune-Review . This idea was proposed to Scaife and Ralph Martin by David Horchak, the Circulation Director of The Valley News Dispatch. Taking advantage of ABC rules that allowed declaring newspapers to include all circulation of a newspaper to be declared editions of a main newspaper. This did not keep David Horchak on when the Tribune-Review decided to have just two circulation directors after personnel cuts. According to surveys by International Demographics Inc., an independent media research firm in Houston,

1160-584: The University of Pennsylvania , among others. He was also a major donor to abortion rights advocates , including Planned Parenthood , giving " millions " to the organization, although most of the donations ended in the 1970s, according to The Washington Post. Tarentum, Pennsylvania Tarentum is a borough in Allegheny County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania . It is 22 miles (35 km) northeast of Downtown Pittsburgh , along

1218-654: The Clintons collaborated with the CIA to run a drug smuggling operation out of the town of Mena, Arkansas and that Clinton had arranged for the murder of White House aide Vince Foster as part of a coverup of the Whitewater scandal . The possibility that money from the project had been given to former Clinton associate David Hale , a witness in the Whitewater investigation, led to the appointment of Michael J. Shaheen as

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1276-683: The Greensburg Tribune-Review . Citing a "sagging economy", the Trib laid off more than four percent of its workforce in 2003, including freelance writers . More shakeups continued in 2005 as circulation numbers dropped and a top official left. An online message board featured back and forth fights between Pittsburgh and Greensburg employees. Edward Harrell, then-president of the Tribune-Review Publishing Company, announced in January 2005 that most of

1334-455: The Mellon fortune when his mother died in 1965. A portion of the fortune was placed in trust funds and the rest in foundations. The trusts expired in 1985 and, per tax law , the foundations must give away 5% of their assets per year. Disbursements from each foundation are done through boards of directors. In 1973, he became estranged from his sister Cordelia and he took control of many of

1392-593: The Tarentum-based Valley News Dispatch edition remained in print. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, through reporter Chris Ruddy was heavily involved in spreading rumors about the death of Vincent Foster , an aid to the Bill Clinton administration. The Clinton White House had commissioned a report entitled the communication stream of conspiracy commerce which was came to light in 2014. Carl Prine , an investigative reporter for

1450-414: The Trib bought it. In early 2000, the Trib announced the "News Record" name would retire after more than two years of a combined "Tribune-Review/North Hills News Record" banner. North Hills coverage would be wrapped into the Trib's neighborhoods section. In 2000, the Trib announced it would convert its Irwin -based paper, the daily (except Sunday) Standard Observer , into a twice-weekly regional section of

1508-673: The United States, mostly through the private, nonprofit foundations he controlled: the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Carthage Foundation, and Allegheny Foundation, and until 2001, the Scaife Family Foundation, now controlled by son David. Scaife was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , to Alan Magee Scaife, the head of an affluent Pittsburgh family, and Sarah Cordelia Mellon , who was a member of

1566-417: The age of 14. He was expelled from Yale University in the aftermath of a drunken party in which he launched an empty beer keg down a flight of stairs, injuring a classmate. Yale gave him the opportunity to repeat his freshman year, but he continued to skip class and flunked out. With the help of his father, who was chairman of the board of trustees, he attended the University of Pittsburgh and graduated with

1624-407: The average family size was 2.92. In the borough the population was spread out, with 22.0% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 31.5% from 25 to 44, 22.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 88.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.8 males. The median income for a household in the borough

1682-482: The borough in Tarentum. Tarentum is located at 40°36′11″N 79°45′20″W  /  40.60306°N 79.75556°W  / 40.60306; -79.75556 (40.603042, −79.755447). According to the United States Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km ), of which 1.2 square miles (3.1 km ) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km ), or 12.06%,

1740-423: The borough. The population density was 4,011.0 inhabitants per square mile (1,548.7/km ). There were 2,556 housing units at an average density of 2,053.3 per square mile (792.8/km ). The racial makeup of the borough was 93.79% White, 3.65% African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.60% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.26% from other races, and 1.38% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.90% of

1798-585: The communities served by those titles. In November 2015, Trib Total Media announced that they would be cutting back on home delivery of printed newspapers and emphasize digital delivery. The restructuring included the sale of two dailies and six weeklies to West Penn Media. Two papers were closed, The Daily News in McKeesport, and The Valley Independent in Monessen. The remaining papers, in Pittsburgh, Greensburg, and Tarentum, became regional editions of

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1856-543: The controversy that followed nearly half the paper's 24 person newsroom staff resigned. In 1992, the two main newspapers in Pittsburgh were embroiled in a lengthy labor dispute that ultimately led the larger paper, the Pittsburgh Press , to cease operations, and for the remaining paper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , to suspend publication for nearly six months until the Post-Gazette acquired

1914-470: The family foundations while Cordelia supported her own charities, including Planned Parenthood and the National Aviary in Pittsburgh. Shortly before her death, the siblings reconciled, and he eulogized her in January 2005, lauding Cordelia for devoting her life and resources to "worthwhile causes". In 1970, Scaife purchased a small market newspaper, then known as the Tribune-Review . The paper

1972-781: The first among these was the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University . Through contacts made at Hoover and elsewhere, Scaife became a major, early supporter of The Heritage Foundation , which has since become one of Washington's most influential conservative public policy research institutes. He served as vice-chairman of the Heritage Foundation board of trustees. Later, he supported such varied conservative and libertarian organizations as: By 1998, his foundations were listed among donors to over 100 such groups, to which he had disbursed some $ 340 million by 2002. Scaife also endowed

2030-668: The influential Mellon family , one of the most powerful families in the country. Sarah was the niece of former United States Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon . She and her brother, financier R.K. Mellon , were heirs to the Mellon fortune that included Mellon Bank and major stakes in Gulf Oil and Alcoa aluminum. Scaife attended high school at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts where he almost didn't graduate after getting caught drinking off campus at

2088-581: The interview, as well as a private lunch he and Scaife had had with Clinton, which Ruddy says was orchestrated by Ed Koch , were due to his shared view, with Scaife that Clinton was doing important work representing the U.S. globally while America was the target of criticism. He also said that he and Scaife had never suggested Clinton was involved in Foster's death, nor had they spread allegations about Clinton's sex scandals, although their work may have encouraged others. Despite his political opposition to Clinton,

2146-426: The movement that reshaped American politics in the last quarter of the 20th century." At the same time, according to journalist Jane Mayer , he gave almost no interviews or speeches on his motives and aims", and "rarely spoke with those who ran the institutions he funded". When Scaife refocused his political giving away from individuals and toward anti-communist research groups, legal defense funds, and publications,

2204-772: The name "Richard Scaife", he made 23 donations over this period which totaled $ 142,904. Besides donations to the Republican National Committee and various political campaigns such as Santorum 2000 and the Santorum Victory Committee for Rick Santorum , he has also supported political action committees such as the Pro-Growth Action Team, the Free Congress PAC (formerly: Committee For the Survival Of

2262-413: The name chosen because they believed the threat of political progressivism was so dire it could not even be compared to the decline of Rome in the face of barbarians. Rather the situation was closer to Ancient Carthage , which had been totally obliterated by Rome , a defeat Scaife and his fellow conservatives attributed to the passivity of its elites in the face of the enemy. As early as 1968, Scaife

2320-659: The newspaper its only Pulitzer Prize . During a newspaper strike that temporarily shut down the Post-Gazette and ultimately closed the Pittsburgh Press , Scaife launched the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , an edition of the Greensburg-based Tribune-Review covering Allegheny County and Pittsburgh. Over time, it became a stand-alone newspaper headquartered on Pittsburgh's North Side. In 1997, Scaife added to his small collection of newspapers by purchasing The Daily Courier of Connellsville ,

2378-514: The newspaper, conducted a probe with the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes that highlighted the lack of security at the nation's most dangerous chemical plants following the September 11, 2001 attacks . The reporters, and a CBS camera operator, were charged with trespassing at a Neville Island plant during their investigation. They were later acquitted when the judge accepted that the story had been in

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2436-718: The number of Tribune-Review readers jumped 17.8 percent from 2007 to 2012. As part of the Trib Total Media conglomerate, the Tribune-Review has a news exchange partnership with WPXI, Pittsburgh's NBC affiliate. Until 2013, it was a sister publication to Pittsburgh's second-largest news radio station, KQV . Trib Total Media is the Official Newspaper of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pittsburgh Penguins (the latter of which Scaife

2494-407: The population. There were 2,170 households, out of which 26.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.0% were married couples living together, 14.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.8% were non-families. 34.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and

2552-623: The public interest. In 2007, Prine's further investigation into the subject was featured in the PBS documentary series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports , in a two-part episode titled "Think Like A Terrorist." One Tribune-Review flap went national when Colin McNickle , then editor of the newspaper's editorial page, attended a July 26, 2004 speech at the Massachusetts State House given by Teresa Heinz Kerry , who had been

2610-541: The regional editions of the paper would have their newsroom, management, and circulation departments merged, and staff reductions would follow. The merged papers include the Tribune-Review of Greensburg, the Valley News Dispatch of Tarentum , The Leader-Times of Kittanning , The Daily Courier of Connellsville and the Blairsville Dispatch . The Valley Independent , the only paper with

2668-493: The regional publication with neighborhood-specific stories. The Valley News Dispatch , of Pittsburgh suburbs Tarentum and New Kensington is one such satellite. Local journalism student John Filo worked for the publication while attending nearby Kent State University and served as the Valley News Dispatch ' s correspondent of the Kent State shootings . His photography that day has ascended to iconic status and won

2726-533: The small circulation newspaper was the chief packager of editorials and news columns claiming that then United States President Bill Clinton or his wife, then First Lady Hillary Clinton were responsible for the death of Deputy White House counsel Vince Foster . Scaife paid freelancer Christopher Ruddy to write about the Foster case for the Tribune-Review and other right-leaning media. Special Prosecutor Ken Starr , appointed to investigate Clinton, concluded Foster had, in fact, committed suicide. In 2004, Scaife

2784-667: The subject of two negative articles in the Tribune-Review's opinion pages. After the speech, there was a dispute between McNickle and Heinz Kerry over her use of the term "un-American activity." The daily Tribune-Review is published in three geographic editions: Pittsburgh, Westmoreland, and Valley News Dispatch. The Tribune-Review claimed to show the highest gains in readership over the past five years of any newspaper in America's top 48 markets, which were dominated by sinking readership. The growth can be attributed to purchases of other newspapers, which were then reclassified as editions of

2842-414: The two men forged a friendship after Clinton left office. They became so close that Clinton spoke at a private memorial service for Scaife on August 2, 2014. According to campaignmoney.com, from 1999 through 2006, Scaife, under the name "R. Scaife", made ten contributions of over $ 200 to political campaigns, for a total of $ 19,000. Under the name "R.M. Scaife", he made four donations totaling $ 22,000. Under

2900-463: Was $ 26,895, and the median income for a family was $ 32,042. Males had a median income of $ 28,578 versus $ 21,891 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $ 14,671. About 12.1% of families and 15.6% of the population were below the poverty line , including 24.1% of those under age 18 and 7.3% of those age 65 or over. In 1900, 5,472 people lived here; in 1910, 7,414 people lived here; and in 1940, 9,846 people lived in Tarentum. The population

2958-401: Was a co-founder in 1967 ). It has strong partnerships with many nonprofit and community businesses and organizations throughout Western Pennsylvania. Richard Mellon Scaife Richard Mellon Scaife ( / s k eɪ f / ; July 3, 1932 – July 4, 2014) was an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, and the owner and publisher of

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3016-616: Was actively involved at the highest levels of the Nixon campaign. He was appointed to lead the United Citizens for Nixon-Agnew during the fall of 1968. Scaife gained notoriety for evading weak campaign finance laws to donate US$ 990,000 to the 1972 re-election campaign of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon . Scaife was not charged with a crime, but about $ 45,000 went to a fund linked to the Watergate scandal . Scaife later said he

3074-626: Was based in Greensburg , the county seat and center of Westmoreland County , located about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. For a number of years, the paper was published and distributed only in the Westmoreland area. Scaife made headlines in the fall of 1973 when a Tribune-Review reporter was fired for making the remark "one down and one to go" during the Watergate era when Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned over corruption charges dating back to his days as governor of Maryland . In

3132-679: Was identified with his contributions to conservative and libertarian causes. The Washington Post in 1999 dubbed him "funding father of the Right." However, Scaife supported certain policy research groups which are not explicitly conservative, such as the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), at

3190-746: Was known for spreading false rumors. In addition to its flagship paper, the company publishes 17 weekly community newspapers, the Pittsburgh Pennysaver , TribLive.com, and TribTotalMedia.com. The paper began as the Gazette on August 22, 1811. After a series of name changes and mergers it became the Greensburg Daily Tribune in 1889. In 1924, it and the Greensburg Morning Review , launched by David J. Berry in 1903, consolidated their interests under

3248-413: Was motivated by concerns that the general trend towards liberalism in America would lead not just to inferior public policy but to the annihilation of American civilization. While Scaife was not known for describing to others the motives or aims of his many contributions, in his book he tells of how he and a network of other influential conservatives called themselves "The League to Save Carthage",

3306-724: Was reported to own 7.2 percent of Newsmax Media , a news-based Web site with conservative political content founded by Ruddy in 1998. In 2009, Scaife reportedly controlled 42% of NewsMax, with Ruddy the 58% majority owner, CEO and editor. Scaife owned a majority interest in Pittsburgh-based all-news radio station KQV . From 1977 to 1989 Scaife owned the Sacramento Union newspaper in the state capital of Sacramento , California . Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other According to his unpublished memoir, Scaife

3364-738: Was repulsed by the scandal and refused to speak with Nixon after 1973. Following Robert Duggan 's suicide and then Watergate, he shifted his political giving from politicians' campaigns to anti-communist research groups, legal defense funds, and publications. During the scandal, John Ehrlichman suggested having Scaife buy out The Washington Post in a hostile takeover from Katharine Graham in order to halt Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein 's reporting. Scaife's publications were substantially involved in coverage against then-President Bill Clinton : The project not only accused Clinton of financial and sexual indiscretions (some later verified, others not), but also gave root to conspiracist notions that

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