Word: circe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...front-page announcement was brief: "Good morning. You'll be getting a new newspaper Sunday." Thus the Boston Herald American (circ. 209,128 and falling) last week ended speculation that it was about to fold. Despite heavy pressure from the bulging Boston Globe (circ. 502,920), the Herald American is optimistically pushing on. Says Publisher James Dorris: "We're giving the people of Boston and New England something they want, a compact, easy-reading, lively newspaper...
...form has matured, and among the two dozen or so surviving U.S. daily tabloids are some solid journalistic entries. Long Island's Newsday (circ. 503,336) provides a well-rounded package of original reporting and features to a large, densely populated suburban area. In Chicago, the Sun-Times (circ. 661, 531) is known for investigative reporting: last week it broke the Cardinal Cody story. Two recent entries indicate there may be life in the old format yet. In Philadelphia, the Journal (circ. 109,622), founded in 1977, is gaining a foothold with a sprightly mix of sports and gossip...
...oriented, which means pandering to a younger audience with a taste for romantic comedies and slick horror films. At the current rate, senility should hit Hollywood about March of 1990." When he is not reviewing for TIME, Corliss is busy preparing new issues of Film Comment, a bimonthly journal (circ. 30,000) that he has edited since 1970. He has also written two books: Talking Pictures and Greta Garbo. Once a year, Corliss interrupts his hectic schedule to serve on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival, which means screening as many as 200 films over a period...
Dallas is a notable exception to that woeful rule. There, a Texas-style shoot-out is being staged by two local papers: the deeply conservative Morning News (daily circ. 283,700), which used to be dismissed as the Morning Snooze, and the Times Herald (daily circ. 243,500), whose sensational coverage once earned it the sobriquet Crimes Herald. Locked in a struggle to become the best in the booming Southwest, both papers are rapidly piling up prizes as well as profits. At the same time they are proving, as the Times Herald put it in a nationwide help-wanted campaign...
With 4,000 employees, more than triple the number at the Post (circ. 730,000), and an aging plant, the News is saddled with high overhead. Inflation has sent the paper's expenses soaring just when readership began to decline sharply, cutting into circulation and advertising revenues...