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                                                                 Exhibit 24(a)

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
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                  Scripps Howard, Inc., an Ohio company, which proposes to file
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, two registration statements on Form S-8 with respect to
the Class A Common shares, $0.01 par value, reserved for issuance pursuant to
the Company's 1994 Non-Employee Directors' Stock Option Plan and the Company's
1987 Long-Term Incentive Plan, hereby constitutes and appoints Daniel J.
Castellini, M. Denise Kuprionis and William Appleton, and each of them, as the
attorney of the Company, will full power of substitution and resubstitution, for
and in the name, place and stead of the Company, to sign and file the proposed
registration statement and any and all amendments and exhibits thereto, and any
and all applications and other documents to be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission pertaining to such securities or such registration, with
full power and authority to do and perform any and all acts and things
whatsoever requisite to be done in the premises, hereby ratifying and approving
the acts of such attorney or any such substitute.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Scripps Howard, Inc. has caused this power
of attorney to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned in West Palm Beach,
Florida, on May 23, 1996.



                                  SCRIPPS HOWARD, INC.



                                  By: /s/ William R. Burleigh
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                                        President and Chief Executive Officer



                                  And: /s/ M. Denise Kuprionis
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                                         Corporate Secretary