POWER OF ATTORNEY

BE IT KNOWN, that Douglas F. Lyons, Vice President and Controller, does hereby
make and appoint Mary Denise Kuprionis, Vice President, Secretary and Chief
Compliance & Ethics Officer of The E. W. Scripps Company, as his true and lawful
attorney for him and in his name, place and stead, giving and granting to said
attorney the power and authority to sign and file reports required under Section
16(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 with full power of substitution
and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming such act(s) that said attorney
shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand as of the 1st day of July, 2008.


/s/ Douglas F. Lyons