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...tune when big-city newspapers across the country are in trouble (latest fatality: the Cowles-owned Buffalo Courier-Express, which last week was announced as scheduled to close Sept. 19), newspaper executives are inclined to applaud any new venture in the industry. But as Los Angeles Times Publisher Tom Johnson points out, "USA Today's success will be determined by a very tough public and by advertisers looking for the best possible increase in sales." Business Analyst R. Joseph Fuchs of Kidder, Peabody and Co. Inc. rates USA Today's chances as "better than even." John Morton...
William A. Henry III was sitting on the sidelines covering a schoolboy football game for his North Plainfield, N.J., high school newspaper when his journalism career began. A reporter from the Plainfield Courier-News showed up late and asked Henry what had happened. Impressed with Henry's colorful recounting of the game, the old pro soon thereafter helped the 16-year-old land a part-time job at the paper. Henry's career continued at Yale, where he was executive editor of both the Yale Daily News and the Yale Banner yearbook and co-author of three published...
...decline to reveal their news budgets, but industry sources say each spends about $150 million a year. A single installment of the weekday evening news costs at minimum about $200,000 and can range far higher; one report from Lebanon consumes about $4,000, not counting travel, editing and courier costs...
America's sprawling geography has not lent itself to the development of national newspapers, except the specialized Wall Street Journal. Yet there has been a vigorous tradition of dominant statewide papers: the Louisville Courier-Journal in Kentucky, the Des Moines Register in Iowa, the Minneapolis Tribune in Minnesota. In the past that list would have featured the Miami Herald, which offered home delivery through most of Florida. But in the years since 1973, as the Herald became even better and Florida grew substantially more populous, circulation of the "state" paper rose a modest...
...often elegant prose went to Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss. "For every Kissinger word we used, we had to discard 19," laments Kriss. "Kissinger's themes are so tightly interwoven that separating material by subject, as we chose to do, is particularly difficult." Completed excerpts were sent by courier to Kissinger, who would then telephone Kriss with comments and clarifications. "He is an excellent text editor," says Kriss. "He is also an absolute workhorse. With help from TIME'S switchboard, he was able to find me just about anywhere, at any hour, even in the shower...