Kiplinger history

In 1947, he and Austin Kiplinger started Kiplinger’s Magazine, which was billed as the first personal financial advice publication for American families.

In 1948, W.M. Kiplinger founded the Kiplinger Foundation, which now has an $11 million endowment.

The family built its Washington headquarters for $1 million in 1949.

Kiplinger worked for the ABC and NBC television affiliates in Chicago before rejoining the family firm in 1956.

Kiplinger joined the 1963 March on Washington as part of a fair-housing delegation from Montgomery County, Md.

1972: Kiplinger’s son, Austin, longtime editor-in-chief of Kiplinger publishing, creates the Kiplinger Program to memorialize his father’s contributions to journalism.

Kiplinger joined the family business in 1983, which by then was a diverse enterprise.

2004: The program moves to the John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public Policy, where it becomes a six-month fellowship.

His wife, the former Mary Louise Cobb, died in 2007.

For several years starting in 2008, Kiplinger lost money for the first time.

2011: Fellowship shifts to an intensive one-week program teaching mid-career journalists to use social media and digital reporting tools.

2012: In a new partnership, the Kiplinger Program begins training at regional Better Watchdog Workshops hosted by Investigative Reporters and Editors.

Knight Kiplinger in 2014 at a meeting for the magazine Kiplinger's Personal Finance. (Getty Images)

2015: Deputy Director Kevin Z. Smith provides journalism ethics and digital training in Pakistan.

2016: Director Doug Haddix is a featured speaker at the Rockit Digital Media conference in Moldova, attended by more than 500 Eastern European journalists and communicators.

2019: After 46 years at Ohio State University, the program finds a new home at Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism in Athens, Ohio.