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...BOSTON GLOBE Morning (circ. 293,000), evening (185,000) and Sunday...
...rating?" demanded Dunn's attorney. "They destroyed a man to make money, to sell newspapers." Last week a Maryland circuit-court jury agreed and awarded $356,000 in damages. The Sentinel (circ. 35,000), which has promised an appeal, argued that a verdict for Dunn would end criticism of local officials by newspapers. Ironically, one of the two reporters who wrote the offending story has since taken on national officials with impunity. Bob Woodward joined the Washington Post and, with Carl Bernstein, blazed an investigative trail through Watergate...
...Where might the owner of the British weekly News of the World (circ. 6,000,000), the daily London Sun (circ. 2,600,000) and the Sydney Sunday Telegraph (circ. 622,000) surface next? Why San Antonio, naturally. Later this month Publishing Baron Rupert Murdoch, 42, will complete his $18 million purchase of the San Antonio morning Express (circ. 84,000) and evening News (circ. 63,000), sister dailies owned by Harte-Hanks Newspapers Inc. The choice of locale might seem odd for the ambitious Australian, who has specialized in reviving faltering papers with heavy doses of crime coverage, cheesecake...
...paper prepared to take full advantage of wire-service advances is the Detroit News (circ. 683,452), the nation's largest evening paper. Like many other metropolitans, it has had increasing trouble in distribution as its audience spreads farther into the suburbs. The News' answer: a $42 million modernization program that includes an automated printing plant 23 miles north of Detroit. It is plugged in electronically to editorial headquarters downtown...
...Newspaper Guild representation and is now in arbitration with the typographers' union over details of the changes, but labor problems continue to inhibit automation at many big papers, like the New York Times. Several smaller publishers are trying the changes and liking them. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle (circ. 50,448) and its sister evening Herald (circ. 19,277) began installing CRTS a year ago, now have ten in operation and ten more ordered. Chronicle Managing Editor Robert Brown points out that his CRT gives him instantaneous access to any story in the office...