Word: circe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both editors, the competition in question was the Daily News, Gotham's immense (circ. 1.6 million) but laboring morning tabloid. Last week the News launched a fat and handsome-looking new evening paper called Tonight (projected circulation...
...circulation. Largely because many of the News's traditional blue-collar readers have moved o the suburbs, daily circulation has slid by 500,000 since 1970. This year the paper lost its vaunted position as the nation's largest circulation daily to the Wall Street Journal (circ. 1.8 million). While the News is still profitable, it is especially vulnerable to a readership decline since it depends on newsstands for 80% of its circulation and now commands just 36% of the city's newspaper advertising, compared with the Times...
...accent that sounds like marbles rolling around in a pail of Delta mud. A drooping mustache and gray-streaked hair that tumbles over his collar contribute to an aspect somewhere between a Confederate cavalry officer and Catfish Hunter. He began his career with the Clarksdale (Miss.) Press Register (circ. 7,325), got his first taste of national politics-and a highly flattering portrayal in The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Grouse's book about the 1972 campaign-at the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal (circ. 133,000) and hired on at the Globe (490,000) in 1975. After chronicling Jimmy...
Many of the magazine's most touted coups, such as the Pinto and dangerous-exports stories, were written by Publisher Mark Dowie, 41, who will depart next month to take a trip around the world. His replacement is Jacques Marchand, 42, publisher of Marxist Perspectives (circ. 6,000), a scholarly quarterly based in New York City. Marchand, who will be paid $37,500 a year, aims to boost advertising but admits, "Nobody is ever going to get rich from this magazine...
...August issue, featuring a cover story on a TV evangelist, was to have been its last. Instead it will be the first for a born-again Harper's (circ. 325,000), the nation's oldest monthly, at age 130. Just three weeks after the announcement that it would fold came word of its rescue by a pair of private foundations...