publisher

1. A firm in the publishing business (synset 108079459)
   is a type of: business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
   subtypes:

   • newspaper, newspaper publisher, paper - a business firm that publishes newspapers
   • magazine, magazine publisher - a business firm that publishes magazines
   same as: publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house
2. A person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music (synset 110510894)
   is a type of: professional, professional person - a person engaged in one of the learned professions
   specific instances:

   • baedeker, karl baedeker - German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859)
   • bartlett, john bartlett - United States publisher and editor who compiled a book of familiar quotations (1820-1905)
   • henry oscar houghton, houghton - United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)
   • henry luce, henry robinson luce, luce - United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967)
   • keith rupert murdoch, murdoch, rupert murdoch - United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931)
   • adolph simon ochs, ochs - United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935)
3. The proprietor of a newspaper (synset 110511160)
   is a type of: owner, proprietor - (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business
   subtypes: press lord - a powerful newspaper proprietor
   specific instances:

   • 1st baron beaverbrook, beaverbrook, william maxwell aitken - British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
   • alfred charles william harmsworth, harmsworth, viscount northcliffe - British newspaper publisher (1865-1922)
   • benjamin harris, harris - publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713)
   • hearst, william randolph hearst - United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951)
   • joseph pulitzer, pulitzer - United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911)
   • james edmund scripps, scripps - United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908)
   • edward wyllis scripps, scripps - United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926)
   same as: newspaper publisher

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