Private company

Advance Publications

Logo: Advance Publications, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons4

American media company

Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-related companies including American City Business Journals, MLive Media Group, and Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in Charter Communications (13% ownership), Reddit (30% ownership), and Skydance Corporations (3.97% ownership).2 It was founded by Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

May 12, 1924Founded1
  • Industrymass media1
  • HeadquartersNew York City1
  • Founded inNew York City1
  • Websitewww.advance.com
  • Legal formprivately held company1
  • LEI549300KRO8HML2LO48603
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered addressC/O COGENCY GLOBAL INC., 10168 New York,, United States3
  • Registered withCorporation and Business Entity Database (Division of Corporations, State Records and UCC, Department of State), 196453

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Advance Publications, Inc. is a privately held American media company owned by the families of Donald Newhouse and Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., the sons of company founder Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. It owns publishing-related companies including American City Business Journals, MLive Media Group, and Condé Nast, and is a major shareholder in Charter Communications (13% ownership), Reddit (30% ownership), and Skydance Corporations (3.97% ownership).2

Corporate structure

Advance Publications sits at the top of its group. 17 entities, 3 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Advance Publications Albany, New York, United States
    • Advance Internet Subsidiary · Jersey City
    • Alabama Media Group Subsidiary · Birmingham, United States
    • American City Business Journals Subsidiary · Charlotte
    • Condé Nast Subsidiary · One World Trade Center
    • Condé Nast International Subsidiary · London
    • Fairchild Fashion Media Subsidiary · New York City
    • ADVANCE MAGAZINE PUBLISHERS INC. Subsidiary · New York, New York, United States
      • CONDE NAST (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED Subsidiary · Mumbai, India
    • Advance/Newhouse Partnership Subsidiary · New York, New York, United States
    • Advance/Newhouse Programming Partnership Subsidiary · New York, New York, United States
    • AnnArbor.com Owned · United States
    • Daily News Record Owned
    • Forest Grove Leader Owned · United States
    • Gloucester County Times Owned
    • Hillsboro Argus Owned · Hillsboro, United States
    • Hudson Dispatch Owned
    • OregonLive.com Owned · United States
    • Press-Register Owned · Mobile, United States
    • South Jersey Times Owned · United States
    • St. Louis Globe-Democrat Owned
    • Staten Island Advance Owned · Staten Island, United States
    • The Birmingham News Owned · Birmingham, United States
    • The Express-Times Owned · United States
    • The Huntsville Times Owned · Huntsville, United States
    • The Jersey Journal Owned · Jersey City, United States
    • The News of Cumberland County Owned
    • and 7 more

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Advance Publications reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

All 28 holdings
  • The Post-Standard
  • The Star-Ledger
  • The Times-Picayune
  • Today's Sunbeam

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Founded by Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr. on May 12, 1924, in New York City.1

The company is named after the Staten Island Advance, the first newspaper owned by the Newhouse family, in which Sam Newhouse bought a controlling interest in 1922.

On August 25, 2018, Advance/Newhouse ("A/N") notified Charter Communications that it intended to establish a credit facility collateralized by a portion of Advance/Newhouse Common Units in Charter Communications Holdings, LLC. That same month, Condé Nast CEO Robert A. Sauerberg Jr. announced his five-year strategy to generate $600 million in new revenue from new revenue streams while driving costs out of the business.

In March 2020, the company acquired The Ironman Group, a mass participation sports platform including the Ironman Triathlons and Absa Cape Epic mountain bike race, from the Wanda Sports Group.

From Wikipedia’s article on Advance Publications, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Leadership

Who has led Advance Publications, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

  • newspaper

Listed on Wikidata.1

As of August 2021, the group owns Condé Nast (which includes the magazines Vogue, The New Yorker, and Wired), The Ironman Group, Turnitin, Advance Local, American City Business Journals, Stage Entertainment, Leaders Group, and the Seattle-based digital agency Pop, Inc., and is a large shareholder in Reddit.

The company holds an 3.97% ownership in media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery, carried over from its 31% stake in predecessor Discovery, Inc. Advance also owns a 13% stake (as of 2016) in Charter Communications, which it received when Bright House Networks merged with Charter.

From Wikipedia’s article on Advance Publications, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

Subsidiaries

Also owns

  • Advance Internet
  • AnnArbor.com
  • Daily News Record
  • Forest Grove Leader
  • Gloucester County Times
  • Hillsboro Argus
  • Hudson Dispatch
  • OregonLive.com
  • Press-Register
  • South Jersey Times
  • St. Louis Globe-Democrat
  • Staten Island Advance
  • The Birmingham News
  • The Express-Times
  • The Huntsville Times
  • The Jersey Journal
  • The News of Cumberland County
  • The Oregonian
  • The Patriot-News
  • The Plain Dealer
  • The Post-Standard
  • The Star-Ledger
  • The Times-Picayune
  • Today's Sunbeam

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. 1959Acquired Condé Nast1

Timeline

  1. May 12, 1924Founded Founded in New York City1

Sources

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