S.I. Newhouse.
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S.I. Newhouse Jr., the longtime chairman of Condé Nast, died Sunday in New York. He was 89.

In a statement, his family said Newhouse was "always the first person to come to the office, arriving well before dawn and bringing to each day a visionary creative spirit coupled with no-nonsense business acumen." Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., also known as Si, was born and raised in New York; in 1959, his father Samuel I. Newhouse purchased Condé Nast, and Si Newhouse became chairman in 1975. Newhouse purchased The New Yorker and Details, bringing them into a company that already published some of the country's most popular magazines, including Vogue, GQ, and Vanity Fair.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.