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...Boston Herald American was dying, it seemed, even before it was born. Founded in June 1972 as the merger of a played-out Hearst tabloid, the Record American, with a once elegant Brahmin broadsheet that had gone broke, the Herald Traveler, the fledgling paper lost more than $35 million in its first decade. Its circulation, 238,000 as of last week, was less than half that of the rival Boston Globe (circ. 510,000), which runs away with four times the advertising linage. Thus almost no one in Boston was surprised when the Hearst Corp. announced that the Herald American...
...women and many of their supporters were angered at the actions of the board at the hearing, the Brown Daily Herald reported. They said the UCSA chairman repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried to silence defense witnesses, who spoke about rape and the way the university handles sexual assault, instead of speaking about the destruction of property, which is the charge against the students...
...proposal was presented at a faculty committee meeting last month and is supported by Harriet Sheridan, the dean of the college. Sheridan said each department could set its own framework within this rule. The Brown Daily Herald reported recently...
...same complaints, even if they worked for newspapers that took pride in being equal-opportunity employers. Said one veteran New York Times writer: "Editors cannot conceive of you in any other way than as 'a black reporter.' " Guillermo Martinez, a Cuban-born reporter for the Miami Herald, agreed. He contended: "We have to prove ourselves twice, that we are good journalists and that we deal objectively with issues of the Hispanic community." Asserted Robert Newberry, a black who is an assistant news editor of the Houston Post: "I have always felt that blacks had to prove themselves daily...
Most major papers insist that their affirmative-action programs explicitly favor minority applicants. Ed Storin, an assistant managing editor of the Miami Herald, reflects the view of many newspaper executives: "If we had a white person and a black person with the same abilities, we would definitely pick the black." As a result, minority journalists can often short-cut the traditional start in small towns and move quickly to big, well-paying papers. But they remain nonetheless a minority; 60% of the nation's newsrooms are all white, and integration has been stalled by economic hard times...