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The Cowles Publishing Company is a diversified media company in Spokane, Washington in the US. The company owns and operates the newspaper ''The Spokesman-Review'' in Spokane founded in 1894. The company operates Inland Empire Paper Company, television stations, and interests in real estate, insurance, marketing and financial services.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cowles Publishing Company Company Profile )〕 William Stacey Cowles, the publisher of ''The Spokesman-Review'', is the great-grandson of the company's founder, William H. Cowles, and the fourth generation of the Cowles family to run the paper. His sister, Elizabeth A. Cowles, is chairwoman of the parent company. Gary Graham is the editor. ==History== William H. Cowles came to Spokane at age 24 to be the business manager of the ''Spokesman'', which was founded less than two years before, and excelled at local news coverage. He had experience as a police reporter for the ''Chicago Tribune'' and was the son of the ''Tribunes treasurer, Alfred Cowles, Sr. He soon bought the ''Spokesman'' from his partners. In 1893, he bought a rival paper, the ''Review'', and merged the two papers into ''The Spokesman-Review.'' He acquired the ''Chronicle'' in 1897. According to ''Time'' in 1952, he was a "determined man" who had an artificial leg yet walked two miles to the office each day. Cowles set the ''Chronicle'' on a course to be independent, and ''The Spokesman-Review'' to support Republican Party causes. ''Time'' magazine related the paper's success gaining lowered rates for freight carried to the Northwest United States and an improved park system and that helped the region. Increasing its reputation for comprehensive local news and by opposing "gambling, liquor and prostitution," ''The Spokesman-Review'' gained popularity. The paper's opposition to building the Grand Coulee Dam was not quite so universally applauded and when it opposed the New Deal and the Fair Deal, it so disturbed President of the United States Harry Truman that he declared the Spokesman-Review to be one of the "two worst" newspapers in the United States. The ''Scripps League's Press'' closed in 1939, making Cowles the only newspaper publisher in Spokane. Cowles created four weeklies, the ''Idaho Farmer'', ''Washington Farmer'', ''Oregon Farmer'' and ''Utah Farmer''.〔 Cowles died in 1946. When William H. Cowles, Jr. succeeded his father as publisher, James Bracken received much more news and editorial control as managing editor.〔 The original Review Building, designed by Seaton & Ferris in 1891 in a style closest to Richardson Romanesque, is ten stories with a tower that reaches . In 1975, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=reviewbuilding-spokane-wa-usa )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cowles Publishing Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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