Word: herald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conniff handled his callers with the good humor, occasional exasperation and unflagging optimism of a man delighted to be back on the job. The new paper, he conceded, would combine most of the features of the three papers it absorbed: the Herald Tribune, the World-Telegram, the Journal-American. "We're not going to emulate any one of them," said Conniff, as he planned for an eight-column layout with abundant white space on weekdays, a six-column page on Sundays. "This paper will look like itself...
...journalists thrown on the job market when the New York Herald Tribune was closed down for good during the city's newspaper strike, Drama Critic Walter Kerr, 53, who had held his post for 15 years, was surely the least worried about the future. While spending the summer lecturing at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, he was besieged with offers. Frank Conniff, editor of the still unpublished World Journal Tribune, even flew over to try to recruit him. But when the critic finally made up his mind last week, his decision was not surprising: Kerr chose...
Last week the New York Herald Tribune was mercifully killed after a 20-year illness for which there was no longer any cure. Cursed by a second 114-day strike in three years, the Trib's owners examined its future. The pre-strike circulation of 303,000 seemed likely to slip to 200,000, half their break-even point. Advertising would certainly decline; editorial staffers had already deserted in droves. There was little of tangible value left, except the paper's past great reputation...
Marx & Livingstone. The Herald Tribune was only 42 years old, but it traced its ancestry back more than 130 years to the founding in 1835 of the New York Herald by James Gordon Bennett Sr. and the founding in 1841 of the New York Tribune by Horace Greeley. Bennett's Herald was a lively penny paper that taught U.S. journalism to hunger for fresh news. The Herald sent boatloads of reporters to meet arriving ships at sea; by the time a ship landed they had already interviewed the passengers for European news. And it was the Herald that sent...
When Greeley died in 1872, Whitelaw Reid, an ace Civil War reporter, took over as owner and editor of the Tribune. His son, Ogden, succeeded him in 1912, and twelve years later bought the Herald. Almost immediately, the new Herald Tribune glowed with a circulation that nearly surpassed the combined total of its two predecessors. Without stopping to start, the Trib had reached the top: a great paper serving a great city-and the world...