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...form of a new weekly newspaper called Education Week. The 24-page tabloid is published in Washington, D.C., by Editorial Projects in Education Inc., a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that founded and later sold the sprightly, respected Chronicle of Higher Education. At a yearly subscription rate of $39.94 (charter subscribers pay $19.97), Education Week claims to report the ABC's of primary and secondary education, the two areas where American pedagogy is most in need of dramatic improvement. Says Editor Ronald Wolk, a former magazine editor and educational administrator: "Our objective is to become American education's newspaper...
...provides a weekly summary of education news in short takes, plus clear but comprehensive studies of major issues. One notable example: a detailed and trenchant analysis of the status and achievements of busing just as the policy is about to be abandoned. The paper's 19,000 charter subscribers are mostly educational policymakers-state officials, school superintendents and principals. So far. Education Week seems to deserve...
...discouraged by the demise of two other afternoon dailies, the Washington Star and the Tonight edition of New York's Daily News, predicts that his paper will turn a profit by 1984. "Philadelphia is big enough and vibrant enough to support two viable metropolitan newspapers," he says. The Charter Co., the oil, insurance and publishing conglomerate that owns the Bulletin, plans to pump in up to $30 million over the next four years. Meanwhile, Philadelphia Phillies Batting Star Pete Rose is doing some pitching for the Bulletin in radio spots. "I don't care whether...
Three years ago, trying to halt its decline, the Bulletin introduced morning editions. Then, under the Florida-based Charter Co., which bought the Bulletin last year for $31 million, the daily was redesigned and suburban editions were sharpened. The staff of 2,100 was trimmed by 125, and a wage freeze was imposed on nonunion employees. Advertisers and readers continued to defect, and losses grew...
...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...