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...rambling, richly decorated home outside St. Louis, a ruptured abdominal blood vessel unexpectedly struck down Joseph Pulitzer II, 70, son and namesake of the founder of the crusading St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 387,398) and the former New York World. Twenty-seven hours later, at Wheaton, Ill., in the splendor of his 35-room Georgian mansion, death after a two-year illness came to Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, boss of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 892,058) and nominal boss of its Manhattan cousin, the Daily News (circ...
Superficially, the character of the two papers was as different as dailies can be. The right-wing, isolationist Tribune viewed the New Dealing Post-Dispatch as a political enemy. But actually, the journalistic ingredients they had in common were more important than those that set them apart. Both the Tribune and the P-D-each in its own way-chose to be independent to a fault. The Trib rarely went along with any political party (see below), while the P-D's editorial support swung from Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932) to Alf Landon (1936), back to Roosevelt...
Died. Joseph Pulitzer, 70, editor and publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; of a ruptured abdominal blood vessel; in St. Louis (see PRESS...
Unchained. The Globe-Democrat's Owner Ray wanted a buyer who would not change the pro-Republican paper radically and who would not sell it eventually to the thriving (daily circ. 387,398, Sunday 460,501) evening St. Louis Post-Dispatch, thereby giving the P-D a monopoly. Newhouse filled the bill. The day he took over, Newhouse announced that Ray would stay on as publisher. He also said there would be no major staff changes and that the paper's present editors, executives and 1,200 employees will continue to run the daily. But Newhouse expects...
Publisher Newhouse expects to increase the editorial budget, give his editors a free rein to expand and improve the news coverage, and thus hopes to close the circulation gap on the Post-Dispatch. For Newhouse, the independence of his local editors is the keystone of his publishing theory. He has no use for chain operations that make papers look alike or speak with a common editorial voice. Says he: "Nobody knows better what to print in a local paper than the editors on the spot. The ideal chain is one in which there is no chaining whatsoever...