Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's headline in the Philadelphia Bulletin carried a double meaning: it was jubilant-and it was printed...
Unions help save the Bulletin...
...grim dispatches have come one after another, like casualty reports from the front lines. First the Washington Star announced it was closing. A few days later, the Philadelphia Bulletin gave its unions until this week to accept $5 million in contract concessions; otherwise it, too, would shut down. Now the New York Daily News has announced that its year-old afternoon paper, Tonight, will stop publication on Aug. 28. Thus was written the latest chapter in a two-decade-old story of failure in the afternoon, this time with the loss of 320 jobs on the nation's largest...
Charter, which has interests in oil, insurance and publishing (Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook), agreed to invest up to $30 million in the Bulletin in the next four years "if labor will join hands and help." Some think it may be too late. "In the long run, it's not going to make any difference," says John Morton, a publishing analyst at John Muir...
...There's never been a paper that has turned around after the ad share has sunk as low as the Bulletin's." Perhaps. But the Bulletin is going to try. At week's end the paper's management and unions were discussing ways to cut costs. Says Hayden: "If we didn't think it was a sound plan, we'd just close the doors...