Jonathan Marshall

Jonathan Marshall (January 20, 1924 – December 13, 2008) was an American newspaper publisher and philanthropist.

Life Jonathan was the son of New York City attorney James Marshall and poet Lenore Guinzberg Marshall. His grandfather Louis Marshall was a prominent lawyer and Jewish leader. Jonathan had one sister, Ellen Marshall Scholl.

Marshall was dyslexic, but earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and political science from the University of Colorado in 1946.

Marshall married Maxine Sue Besser of St Louis in April 1955. He earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon in 1962.

Maxine Marshall died in 2015. She was 89.

Publishing and writing Marshall bought a bankrupt fine art magazine called Art Digest in 1953 in partnership with James N. Rosenberg. After changing the format and changing the name to ARTS, Marshall sold the magazine in 1958 to join the Ford Foundation's Humanities and Arts program. ARTS would later become Arts Magazine.

In 1963, Marshall purchased the Scottsdale Daily Progress newspaper, and published it for 24 years. He took a brief hiatus in 1974 to run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate against Barry Goldwater.

According to the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, Marshall,

Marshall was inducted into the Arizona Newspapers Association Hall of Fame in 1996, the same year as Don Bolles and Charles E. Thornton. Induction was previously a posthumous honor; Marshall was among the first journalists to be inducted during his lifetime.

Civic activities Marshall was one of the founders of Temple Solel reform synagogue in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Marshall spoke out against the KKK, supported gun control, and was a frequent target of threats against his life.

Through the Progress, Marshall supported the creation of a greenbelt instead of concrete flood-control ditch, which the United States Army Corps of Engineers had planned for Scottsdale's Indian Bend Wash. The "Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt" exists today as "...an oasis of parks, lakes, paths and golf courses traversing 11 miles through the heart of Scottsdale."

The East Valley Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning Ryan Gabrielson wrote of Marshall,