As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 27, 2005

Registration No. 333-          

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

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FORM S-8

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THE E. W. SCRIPPS COMPANY

THE E. W. SCRIPPS COMPANY
AMENDED AND RESTATED 1997 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
(Full title of the plan)

M. Denise Kuprionis
Vice President, Corporate Secretary, and Director of Legal Affairs
The E. W. Scripps Company
312 Walnut Street, Suite 2800
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(Name and address of agent for service)

(513) 977-3835
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SECURITIES UNDER LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN

     This Registration Statement on Form S-8 is being filed solely to register, pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, 6,000,000 additional Class A Common Shares of The E. W. Scripps Company (the “Company”) issuable pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated 1997 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

     The Company has previously filed a registration statement on Form S-8 (File No. 333-89824) (the “Prior Form S-8”) covering 18,317,400 of its Class A Common Shares (as adjusted for a subsequent two for one stock split) authorized for issuance under the Plan. The Prior Form S-8 is incorporated herein by reference in this Registration Statement and made a part hereof.

PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the undersigned Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Cincinnati, State of Ohio, on May 26, 2005.

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant in the capacities indicated, on May 26, 2005.

*Joseph G. NeCastro, by signing his name hereto, does sign this Registration Statement on behalf of the persons indicated above pursuant to the powers of attorney duly executed by such persons and filed as Exhibit 24 to this Registration Statement.

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit 5

May 26, 2005

The E. W. Scripps Company
312 Walnut Street
28th Floor
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202

Ladies and Gentlemen:

     We have acted as counsel to The E. W. Scripps Company, an Ohio corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) being filed on the date hereof by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, to register 6,000,000 additional Class A Common Shares, $.01 par value, of the Company (the “Shares”) for issuance under and pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated 1997 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).

     In connection with the foregoing, we have examined the Plan and such records of the corporate proceedings of the Company and such other documents as we have deemed necessary to render this opinion.

     Based on such examination, we are of the opinion that the Shares, when issued, delivered and paid for in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan, will be legally and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

     We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5 to the Registration Statement.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Baker & Hostetler LLP

Baker & Hostetler LLP

Exhibit 23.2

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of our reports dated March 11, 2005, relating to the financial statements and financial statement schedule of The E. W. Scripps Company and subsidiary companies, and management’s report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting dated March 11, 2005, appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of The E. W. Scripps Company and subsidiary companies for the year ended December 31, 2004.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

Cincinnati, Ohio
May 23, 2005

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

     We, the undersigned officers and directors of The E. W. Scripps Company, an Ohio corporation (the “Company”), hereby constitute and appoint Kenneth W. Lowe, Richard A. Boehne, Joseph G. NeCastro, E. John Wolfzorn, Anatolio B. Cruz III, M. Denise Kuprionis, William Appleton and Eric J. Geppert as our true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each of whom may act, with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for us and in our stead, in any and all capacities to execute and file a Registration Statement on Form S-8 pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in order to register Class A Common Shares of the Company for issuance to officers and employees of the Company under the Company’s Amended and Restated 1997 Long-Term Incentive Plan, and all amendments to such Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing necessary or advisable to be done in connection therewith, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent or substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Power of Attorney (alone or in multiple counterparts all of which together shall constitute a single document) has been signed in the capacities indicated below on April 28, 2005.