Donald Newhouse

Donald Edward Newhouse (born 1929) is an American billionaire heir and media executive who, alongside his late brother Samuel Irving "Si" Newhouse Jr., controls Advance Publications, the privately held conglomerate founded by their father Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. in 1922.

Under the brothers' stewardship, Advance expanded from regional newspapers into a diversified media portfolio that includes ownership stakes in more than two dozen local dailies across the United States—such as the Newark Star-Ledger and Staten Island Advance—and the upscale magazine publisher Condé Nast, which produces titles including Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Wired.

The Newhouse family's paternal lineage traces to Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., originally named Solomon Isadore Neuhaus, was born on May 24, 1895, on Manhattan's Lower East Side to Meier Neuhaus, an immigrant from Vitebsk (now in Belarus, then near the Russian border), and Rose Fett Neuhaus. Meier and Rose, impoverished arrivals in the United States, raised their family amid the tenements, where Samuel began working as a teenager in legal and publishing roles before acquiring his first newspaper, the Staten Island Advance, in 1922 and founding Advance Publications.

Mitzi Epstein Newhouse, born April 30, 1902, in New York City to Nathan Epstein, came from a local Jewish family; she briefly attended Parsons School of Design before her marriage and focused on philanthropy, including theater donations. The couple's union laid the foundation for a media dynasty built on Samuel Sr.'s aggressive acquisitions in the newspaper industry during the early 20th century.