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...BODY is twitching. There is new life." The voice over the radio is identified as that of Dave O'Brien, a recently hired columnist for the Boston Herald American. He is doing a radio commercial for the Herald about the reasons that led him away from the weekly Boston Phoenix to the daily, slowly transforming Herald. As Joe Pilati, O'Brien's replacement as the Phoenix's media columnist, wrote in a column this summer, it took guts for the Herald to allow that choice quote to go out over the airwaves. But like it or not, O'Brien...
...Herald American, for several years now, has had a reputation as Boston's second-class newspaper. It was seen as the more conservative of the city's two papers, the one that played stories more sensationally, and the one whose reporting was generally of a lower quality. The Globe, partly because of its inclusion a few years ago in Time Magazine's list of the ten best newspapers in the country and partly because of its "Spotlight Team" prize-winning investigative series, has been viewed as the city's most influential newspaper...
...Globe was also seen as the more financially secure of the two, and consequently the one that could invest the most money in gathering the news. The Herald American is the product of a merger of the old morning Boston Herald Traveler and the afternoon Record American/Sunday Advertiser. The Hearst Corporation owned the Record American, and had the available capital to salvage the ailing Herald Traveler. At first, the only change from the Herald Traveler was a new banner across the front page and the inclusion of more writers, among them William Randolph Hearst, Jr., who writes a Sunday front...
WITHIN THE last year, Hearst installed a new editor at the Herald named Robert C. Bergenheim. Bergenheim has started to overhaul the paper, and his first real change was seen on October 18. There had long been reports that the Herald would change over to a new kind of typesetting equipment and printing process, or that it would adopt a new format. The Hearst people had imported a British graphics expert who redesigned the paper's makeup style and chose different typefaces for headlines...
Whether the facelift represents anything more than just that is still an open question. The Herald has long been known for its occasionally inaccurate reporting, and that tendency has apparently not yet changed. Earlier this year, the Herald reported that Yale President Kingman Brewster was about to resign and would be replaced by a current dean, who would become the university's first woman president. Although not the result of a Crimson parody of the Yale Daily News, it sounded like it might have been. Last week, in a story billed as an exclusive from its Washington bureau, the Herald...