Scaife Foundations

Richard Scaife Acquires Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Building Conservative Media Infrastructure

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Richard Mellon Scaife, heir to the Mellon banking and aluminum fortune, purchased the Tribune-Review newspaper in Greensburg, Pennsylvania for approximately $5 million in 1970, marking his entry into media ownership as part of a broader strategy to build conservative infrastructure across multiple …

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