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...addition to fulfilling their duties as Fellows, the six will have an opportunity to pursue independent research. Incoming Fellow Kenneth O. Harnett, managing editor of The Boston Herald-American, said, "I really want to see if I can get someplace on a novel that deals with the interchange between media power and political power...
...state-controlled television called on the government to detain Smith if it could prove that he had actually urged some Western countries to stop supporting Zimbabwe. The English-language Herald posed the question, "Is this not treason?" Even some of Smith's backers among Zimbabwe's more than 200,000 whites disassociated themselves from his comments...
Hopes for its survival were hardly raised when the only prospective buyer, flamboyant Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch, declared the condition of his purchase: the paper's eleven unions would have to give up 180 of the Herald's 800 jobs to save $4 million a year. Nonetheless, the sale went through, five hours after Hearst suspended publication and sent employees home. The settlement, after 30 consecutive hours of bargaining, closed a week of allegations by Hearst executives that the Globe was trying to sabotage union negotiations. Crowed the Herald on its front page Saturday morning...
...sale of the Herald saves Boston, the nation's tenth largest metropolitan area, from the dubious distinction of becoming the biggest city with just one major paper. Instead, the staid, august Globe faces the possibility of a no-holds-barred newspaper war. Murdoch has pledged to invest $15 million in the Herald American. Said a senior Herald editor: "This will cost the Globe millions. They will have to fight." Globe Publisher William O. Taylor, whose family has operated the paper for more than a century, canceled a trip to Seattle this week and said, "I will be right here...
...Forst, Herald editor since 1979, would probably agree. Last year he converted the paper to a zippy, insouciant tabloid that is perhaps more like the Post than any other non-Murdoch daily; it features vivid sports coverage, a populist-conservative editorial page and, emblazoned across the front page, hard-selling headlines sometimes 4 in. high. (Samples: TORTURE MODEL TEEN TO DEATH; POLS TAKE CARE OF SELVES.) The tabloid format boosted circulation by 48,000. Stephen Mindich, publisher of the weekly Boston Phoenix (circ. 140,000), is an admirer: "The Herald may hype stories, but the facts are correct...