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...late 1880s, Publishing Dynamo William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner helped to introduce sensationalism, jingoism and human interest into newspaper reporting. But in recent years the once garish Examiner, fading visibly, has resembled nothing so much as a hazy fog rolling in from the Pacific-with the news reporting turning blurred, local color getting soupy and editorials going bland...
That may be changing. Since September 1972, a 25-year-old Hearst grandson and the family's current power broker at the Examiner, "Willie" III, has revived some of the old spirit and innovative kick of grandpa. He has successfully pushed the nondescript Examiner into making its most striking changes in decades, including a new six-column page format (which may make its debut this month), a reduced page size to save money, more minority reporters, and expanded investigative and news coverage...
...accord left the city with a pair of smug, noncompetitive, conservative newspapers. Not until the gradual involvement of Randolph Hearst, father of kidnaped Patty Hearst and the Examiner's president since 1973, did the old family flagship begin to change. Stirred by a tour of the barrios of several cities, including San Francisco, in 1969, and pressured by his daughter Patty and nephew Willie, who told him that the Bay Area's young ignored the Examiner, Randolph Hearst appointed men in their 30s to the city-editor and news-editor slots, put some life into the paper...
Mighty Chain. The greatest pressure for change has come from Willie. Physically akin to his grandfather, with piercing eyes, patrician nose and blond hair, young Hearst says that he has always been fascinated by the once mighty chain of 32 dailies. "As a kid I would go to San Simeon [the vast Hearst estate] and groove on the whole vision. I really admired my grandfather. What a mover! I decided you had to have money to do these things, and I realized the money came from the papers...
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