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- Birth nameAllen Harold Neuharth
- Al Neuharth was born on March 22, 1924 in Eureka, South Dakota, USA. He was married to Rachel Fornes, Lori Wilson and Loretta F. Helgeland. He died on April 19, 2013 in Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA.
- SpousesRachel Fornes(1993 - April 19, 2013) (his death, 6 children)Lori Wilson(1973 - 1982) (divorced)Loretta F. Helgeland(June 16, 1946 - 1973) (divorced, 2 children)
- He was known to have fathered a daughter out-of-wedlock, Rosamunda Neuharth-Ozgo, but he never publicly acknowledged her.
- Founder of USA Today in 1982.
- Founder of The Freedom Forum, a charitable foundation. Freedom Forum was founded with the goal of fostering "free press, free speech and free spirit".
- Through the Freedom Forum, he founded the Forum's museum of journalism and media, The Newseum, dedicated to the history of news. The Newseum opened in 1997, first in Rosslyn, Virginia, before its' 2008 reopening in a newly constructed building in Washington, DC.
- The Neuharth founded Freedom Forum also runs the First Amendment Center and Newseum Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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