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...CARTER: In the East, New York Times, New York Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia Daily News, Long Island (N.Y.) Press. In the South, Atlanta Constitution, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Nashville's Tennessean, Miami News, Louisville Courier-Journal. In the Midwest, Des Moines Register, Minneapolis Tribune, Minneapolis Star, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Daily News. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal. In the West, Denver Post...
Founded in protest and nurtured in militancy, the black press long made a rough and sometimes roisterous contribution to U.S. news reporting. Thirty years ago the Pittsburgh Courier had 23 editions, a circulation of 355,000 and an instinct for the jugular. It once hired a white reporter to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, and conducted a public fund drive to pay Jackie Robinson's travel expenses to Brooklyn after the Dodgers said they were ready to break baseball's color line. The Baltimore-based Afro-American chain told its 154,000 readers what was happening in their...
...white dailies. The decision to turn the Defender, founded in 1905, into a daily was made in 1956 by Editor and Publisher John Sengstacke, 63. Since then, his company has grown into one of the hundred largest black businesses in America. (Included in its holdings is the New Pittsburgh Courier, a healthy five-edition remnant of the old Courier, which was in serious financial difficulty when it was acquired in 1966.) After a bad year in 1975, Defender circulation and revenues are up. One big problem common to black urban newspapers: distribution. Dealers in interracial neighborhoods refuse to carry...
...Flight 712 and led him to a screened-off room for a baggage check. When Muller obeyed her request and opened the bag he was carrying, explosives inside it killed them both and wounded ten other people. After making inquiries in Europe, Israeli authorities concluded that "Muller" was a courier for Palestinian guerrillas. In Beirut, George Hasbash's militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the bombing...
...misread my story," Ray Herman, political reporter for the Courier-Express, explained yesterday...