Word: circe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hearst tabloid, the Record American, with a once elegant Brahmin broadsheet that had gone broke, the Herald Traveler, the fledgling paper lost more than $35 million in its first decade. Its circulation, 238,000 as of last week, was less than half that of the rival Boston Globe (circ. 510,000), which runs away with four times the advertising linage. Thus almost no one in Boston was surprised when the Hearst Corp. announced that the Herald American would be sold or shut down...
...minority journalists have risen into management jobs of even moderate power. Only one, Publisher Robert Maynard of the Oakland Tribune (circ. 179,000), runs a large paper with a predominantly white audience. Claims Maynard: "White males are often promoted on the basis of potential, but minorities and women need proven ability." Minorities hold three editorial management positions at the New York Times and Chicago Tribune, four at the Boston Globe, and four of 123 supervisory positions at the Los Angeles Times. Editors blame the dearth of minority managers on rapid turnover, particularly as promising reporters depart for better...
...University of Chicago in the Midwest; Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth in the Ivy League. The new generation of editors sounds just as embattled and indignant as its liberal forebears who condemned the war in Viet Nam. Michael George, 21, editor in chief of Northwestern's Review (circ. 6,000), sounds the clarion call of revolt against the Establishment: "Liberals are the ruling class...
...student editors feel equally combative. Visually, their papers are often cluttered and oldfashioned, but they argue their cases with blunt headlines and florid, Buckleyesque prose. Most are far more interested in opinion than in news. Says Roger Brooks, editor in chief of Princeton's year-old Madison Report (circ. 2,500): "I believe in saying what I think." Paul Davies, president of the Stanford Review (circ. 1,000), agrees: "We are here to balance student debate." Because many papers begin as personal vehicles, some are short-lived. Those that survive may evolve: the University of Wisconsin's weekly...
...system. Last April, declining profits prompted the company to merge its two home-town newspapers, both ranked among the best of the medium-size dailies in the U.S. The afternoon Star, which had undergone a steady circulation slide to 170,000, was folded into its matutinal sister, the Tribune (circ. 240,000). The merger cost 110 jobs, including 50 from the editorial staffs. Last month Cowles closed the Buffalo Courier-Express, the morning paper it had owned since 1979, after losing $25 million on its operation...