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...sudden and unexpected death of Newsday's hard-driving Editor Alicia Patterson in 1963 left her husband, Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, with a tough problem: Who could be brought in to run the suburban afternoon daily he had founded for his wife? To almost everyone's surprise, the job went to the first person who expressed an interest: Captain Harry himself...
Sharp Angles. The basic formula for success remains unchanged from Alicia's day: a skillful mix of local, national and foreign coverage, almost always clearly and concisely written. Newsday's reporting of state politics, for example, is consistently more searching than that of the New York City dailies. "A story for this paper has to be angled sharply," explains Executive Editor Alan Hathway. "The morning papers have had a shot at it, television has had a shot at it. We have to assume one of two things: no one has seen the story or read anything; or they...
...Founded in 1940 by Alicia Patterson, the daughter of New York Daily News Founder Joe Patterson. Captain Joe gave his daughter no help; she started Newsday with a gift of $70,000 from her husband Harry Guggenheim, who thought that "everybody ought to have a job"-even his wife...
...Change. Beginning next month, his byline will appear in the weekend edition of Newsday, the highly successful Long Island tabloid founded in 1940 by the late Alicia Patterson. The new partnership delights both sides. Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, who took charge of Newsday after his wife's death in 1963, has maintained the paper's high rank as one of the largest suburban dailies in the U.S. (present circ. 400,000). Last spring, in an effort to attract new advertisers and reader ship, he attached a Weekly Review to the Saturday paper and began a search for distinguished...
Impatient with such lethargy, the new owner reached for a success similar to that of the late Alicia Patterson's Newsday (circ. 373,587), which caters to Long Island suburbanites. He brought in a task force of bright, energetic newsmen, increased the news staff to 50, and boosted salaries. From Minneapolis came Promotion Manager Robert Weed as publisher and Assistant City Editor Ed Goodpaster as managing editor. "Cowles couldn't be expected to run a schlock operation here," says Weed. "This had to look like something...