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...work for the new corporation until a contract has been signed, the paper's editors have not even been able to run off one dummy issue. "It's going to be like opening a show on Broadway without an out-of-town try-out," says Editor Frank Conniff. "The cast will be getting together for the first time just twelve hours before opening-night curtain...
...Conniff is confident, however, that once his paper gets into print, it will provide a bright commentary on New York. "This is a lively town," he says, "and we're going to reflect it." For foreign coverage, the World Journal will rely on the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. Like both its predecessors, the paper will depend on newsstand sales-which means large eye-catching headlines. But with the Journal and Telegram no longer vying with each other in sensationalism, Conniff hopes to make his combined paper more reflective and responsible...
...World Journal. Except for Murray Kempton and one or two others, most of the two papers' apparently inexhaustible supply of columnists will somehow find elbow room. In editorial command will be the kind of balanced ticket (Irish, Jewish, Italian) that is the delight of city politicians: Editor Frank Conniff, now Hearst national editor; Managing Editor Paul Schoenstein, now Journal-American managing editor; and Assistant Managing Editor Louis Boccardi, now World-Telegram assistant managing editor...
Drawbacks of Seniority. Reporters' bylines will offer few surprises. Guild seniority rules will force the World Journal to hang on to far too many tired oldtimers while cutting loose a batch of promising youngsters. The familiar old crowd will supply what Conniff calls "recognition value"-enough, it is hoped, to attract an initial circulation that approaches...
...afternoon paper, the World Journal, will replace Hearst's Journal-American and Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram & Sun. Editorial boss will be Frank Conniff, 52, Hearst's national editor, columnist and one-third of the "task force" that has won a Pulitzer Prize for its interviews with world leaders. According to present plans, the World Journal will concentrate on its home town and carry more local news than either of the papers it replaces. It is inheriting far more columnists than it can handle, but after trimming the list it will encourage guest columns from public figures...