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...tones did Managing Editor Walter Burns make his wishes known to Reporter Hildy Johnson in that 1928 Broadway classic The Front Page. Generations of fire-breathing editors have embraced this persuasive management technique, but one news'executive is flirting with an unusual alternative: democracy. At the Minneapolis Star (circ. 226,828), rank-and-file editorial employees have been given an active role in deciding how to reshape their foundering evening paper...
...words of Publisher Donald R. Dwight, 48, "a warmed-over daily news report that was neither timely nor very interesting." The Star had lost 75,000 subscribers since the 1950s. Last July, for the first time in its 59 years, the paper fell behind the morning Tribune (circ. 226,899). Both are owned by the Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co., publisher of Harper's magazine...
...moving into its 30s. At Denver's Straight Creek Journal and Seattle's Weekly, the average reader's age is 35. "Politics doesn't sell on the front page since Viet Nam," says Bruce Brugmann, 43, editor and publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian (circ. 35,000). "We put politics on the front page, but we have to highlight it with where to find the best sandwich...
...Progressive (circ. 40,000), a respected liberal monthly based in Madison, Wis., had argued that all the material in the article was in the public domain, compiled by a freelance writer who simply read extensively and interviewed numerous experts. Said Progressive Lawyer Earl Munson Jr.: "If Howard Morland can do it, then there is no secret, and the Government is only fooling the public...
...story of some 5,000 words, with the working title "The H-Bomb Secret," was due to appear in the Progressive (circ. 40,000), a left-wing monthly published in Madison, Wis. Two weeks ago, Managing Editor Samuel H. Day Jr. sent a copy to the Department of Energy in Washington and asked for verification of the facts. The article was quickly passed from DOE'S technical experts to its legal staff. "The reaction was pretty amazing and swift," recalls a DOE official. The department informed the Progressive that publication of the material would be "contrary to the United...