Richard B. Scudder, 99, founder and president of MediaNews Group Inc., the second largest newspaper, which has also helped to invent a process that allows the recycling of paper for newspapers, died Wednesday at home in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey
Scudder was born May 13, 1913, in a newspaper family in Newark, NJ His grandfather founded the Newark Evening News and his father worked.
After receiving a degree in Economics from Princeton University, Scudder worked as a newspaper reporter for the Boston Herald, he joined the Evening News as a reporter in 1938.
He took over his father as director of the Evening News in 1952 and served for 20 years.
In 1983, Scudder and one of its founding in Denver, MediaNews, William Dean Singleton, began to buy newspapers in New Jersey, Ohio and California. Their collaboration became MediaNews Group, a private company with holdings that include newspaper News of Los Angeles, the San Jose Mercury News, the Denver Post and Detroit News newspaper.
Scudder was president of MediaNews 1985-2009. The company owns 57 newspapers in 11 states with combined daily circulation of 2.3 million, making the nation's second largest company MediaNews newspaper after Gannett Co.
Scudder served in the Army during World War II, earning a Bronze Star. He had learned German as a child and put the knowledge to use scripts for the German radio station to fool the Nazis as part of "Operation Annie".
In early 1950, Scudder had a hand in inventing a process for removing ink from newsprint in newspapers can be recycled into newsprint quality.
After being approached by a vendor release that came with the idea, Scudder tried the process in your office and home settings, before going to university research laboratory. He was admitted to the Paper Industry Hall of Fame in 1995.
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