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...scores of America's locally owned newspapers, death and estate taxes have led to another apparent inevitability: sale to a chain. Last week, however, the 109-year-old Oakland (Calif.) Tribune (circ. 174,000) reversed the trend. Gannett, the nation's biggest newspaper group (86 dailies), sold the money-losing Tribune to Journalist Robert Maynard, 45, who is, like 47% of Oakland's residents, black. Said Gannett Chairman Allen Neuharth: "We had other prospective buyers, but we felt it desirable for the community to have a dedicated local owner...
...Nonetheless, last week Kinsley gave up one of the most visible jobs in magazine journalism for one of the more anonymous: starting in September, he will replace the revered Richard Strout, who retired at 85 after four decades as the pseudonymous TRB columnist for the weekly New Republic (circ. 96,000). Said Kinsley: "Some people think I am crazy, but writing a column is a journalist's dream, and this one seems to come open once every 40 years...
...story had spread for several days, the blood-red banner headline was startling. Proclaimed West Germany's raffish picture magazine Stern: HITLER'S DIARIES DISCOVERED. To trumpet its acquisition of 62 volumes dated from 1932 to 1945, the entire span of Hitler's Third Reich, Stern (circ. 1.87 million) summoned more than 200 print and television reporters from around the world to its art deco headquarters in Hamburg. There, at a self-congratulatory three-hour press conference, Editor in Chief Peter Koch announced: "I am 100% convinced that Hitler wrote every single word in those books...
...photographers jostled each other to get pictures of Irving, who started his own miniconference, Stern security aides led him away while he shouted, "Ink! Ink! Ink!" Irving, a Hitler biographer with professed "ultrarightist" political views, conceded he had been hired as a consultant by another publication, Bild am Sonntag (circ. 2.6 million...
Last year, after Hederman left, the family sold the Clarion-Ledger and its evening sister paper, the Jackson Daily News (circ. 40,000), to the Gannett Co. the nation's biggest (87 dailies) newspaper chain. But Hederman's goal of improvement survived. The paper opened bureaus in three Mississippi cities and began to send reporters to cover stories throughout the South. Says Managing Editor Rober Gordon: "We are a good newspaper trying to get better...