Wick Communications, Benson

Family-owned community media company with newspapers, websites, magazines and specialty publications in 11 states.

Communications

The Administrator of Wick Communications is LINDA ZIMMERMAN

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Milton I. Wick founded Wick Communications with his brother James in 1926, when he became owner and publisher of the Niles Daily Times in Niles, Ohio.
Mr. Wick was born Feb. 20, 1899, in Bowdle, South Dakota. He attended Irving Grade School and South High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He also attended the University of Iowa and received a B. A. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1922.
While in college, Milton and James Wick organized a business in Lincoln, Nebraska, that employed university students to sell books to farmers during the summer. The enterprise was so successful it was expanded to Iowa, Missouri and Kansas, employing more than 500 students during its three years of operation.
After graduation, Milton Wick worked in the sales department of McQuay-Norris, a manufacturer in St. Louis, Missouri. He married Rosemary Lumas in 1926, and they had two sons, Walter M. Wick and Robert J. Wick.
He turned to the publishing business in 1926, when he bought the Niles Daily Times. He eventually acquired 27 newspapers in several states.
Mr. Wick and his brother, accompanied by their wives, were the first U. S. journalists to tour and report from European and Asiatic Russia; previous reports had come from Moscow only. The Wicks also led the first group of U. S. journalists, as Wick Editors Tours, to Poland and Czechoslovakia. They also reported from Hungary and Romania.
The Wicks were in Hungary in May 1955, 18 months before the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and reported that the Hungarians were outspoken in their hatred of the Russians. The Wicks were the only U. S. journalists to witness and photograph the May Day Parade in Budapest and to report that every tenth marcher in the parade was a Russian soldier in uniform.
Milton I. Wick interviewed many of the world