History
Edward Wyllis Scripps started his newspaper career in the 1880s, and owned 22 newspapers by 1910. In 1897, he created two companies, the Scripps-McRae Press Association and the Scripps News Association. In 1907, he combined a number of news providers into United Press Associations as a rival to Associated Press.
On June 2, 1902 the new Newspaper Enterprise Association, based in Cleveland, Ohio, started as a news report service for different Scripps-owned newspapers. It started selling content to non-Scripps owned newspapers in 1907, and by 1909, it became a more general syndicate, offering comics, pictures and features as well. It moved from Cleveland to Chicago in 1915. NEA rapidly grew and delivered content to 400 newspapers in 1920 and about 700 in 1930. At that time, it had some 100 features available. Boyd Lewis became the executive editor of NEA Service in 1945.
From 1936 to 1954, United Features published their own line of comic books, using their comic strip features as characters. After ending the line in 1954, most of their comics would be continued by St. John Publications.
On June 3, 2010, United Media sold their licensing arm, along with the rights to Peanuts, to Iconix Brand Group.
On February 24, 2011, United Media struck a distribution deal with Universal Uclick for syndication of the former company's 150 comic strip and news features, which became effective on June 1.
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