Darrow Tully

Darrow J. "Duke" Tully is a former publisher of the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette newspapers, published in Phoenix, Arizona. Both were owned by Central Newspapers, Inc., headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, at the time. Central Newspapers was founded by Eugene C. Pulliam, grandfather of United States Vice President Dan Quayle.

Tully was born on February 27, 1932 in Charleston, West Virginia. He attended undergraduate school at Purdue University, receiving his BA in journalism and English from Calumet College. He received an honorary PhD from the Calumet College of St. Joseph.

Tully had a forty plus year media management career encompassing newspapers, radio, television, direct mail and marketing and was associated with such media conglomerates as Knight-Ridder Inc., the Chronicle Publishing Company, Central Newspapers Inc. and the Maritz Corporation. In 1956 he was named Vice President and General Manager of Knight-Ridder–owned WDSM-TV-AM-FM in Duluth, Minnesota, becoming the youngest CEO in broadcasting at the time. With Knight-Ridder he went on to become publisher of the Gary Post Tribune (Gary, Indiana), the Pasadena Star-News and the Independent (Pasadena, California), and The Wichita Eagle and Beacon (Wichita, Kansas).