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...publishers tend to do," he recalls, "told her I was in town and would like to have a look at her plant." It was love at first sight. "I lusted after the Post," he says. So had many others. The oldest continuously published daily in the U.S., the Post (circ. 500,000) has been the only afternoon paper in the nation's largest city since 1967-but Dolly Schiff had failed to make the most of it, editorially or financially. Last week Murdoch plucked the unripened plum. He waltzed Dolly into an agreement in principle to sell...
...Charlotte Observer (circ. 169,968), owned by the Knight-Ridder chain, sends four editions across the Carolinas every morning, and more than 60% of its readers live outside Charlotte. Editor C.A. McKnight covers a lot of ground with only 38 reporters, but does not slight long-term investigative projects. One example: Observer reporters spent 21 months digging through expense vouchers at the Southern Bell Telephone Co.; so far, eleven executives have been indicted for cheating the utility. The paper's support of school busing has not pleased many readers, but Editor Reese Cleghorn's sensitive editorials rarely offend...
...circ. 204,747) loaded its presses onto a railroad car in 1862, and then gave the advancing Yankees hell from all over the South. The hell-raising persists, but the enemy has changed. The paper's 1975 expose of racial discrimination in local apartment complexes led to one of the largest cash settlements in the history of open-housing litigation. This year the Commercial Appeal revealed how Memphis' biggest department store was spying on customers in its dressing rooms, and endorsed a black candidate with a white wife over 15 white opponents for the office of county legislator...
Miss Lillian became a reporter herself for Georgia's Columbus Ledger (circ. 30,000). She recorded her impressions on tape, which were then phoned to the paper and put in print. On meeting Jane Fonda, she reported saying: "Jane, maybe the reason we're getting along so beautifully is that we're both so controversial." She described her reaction to the convention: "You know I felt it was a sacred thing I was looking...
...three sons who were Samsung managers. "They were not fit to hold executive positions," he explains. "The life of a man is short, but that of a corporation must never be." To keep his companies healthy, Lee keeps them lean. When he started the afternoon newspaper Joongang Ilbo (current circ. 680,000) in 1965, he built up a talented staff of 1,400. Today Joongang has expanded into radio and TV, but still employs only 1,400 people...