Publisher and former AP board chair Donald Newhouse dies at 96

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Donald E. Newhouse has died at 96.

He was president of one of the largest family-controlled publishing companies in the nation and a former board chairman of The Associated Press.

His family says he died at his home in New Jersey.

During his career, Newhouse served as president of the Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey and head of Advance Publications’ newspaper group.

Newhouse, who lived in New York, spent nearly 50 years overseeing the 35 newspapers of Advance Publications, the media business started by his late father, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., in 1922.

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