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...Yorker ever so quietly celebrated its 40th birthday. Wolfe uncorked a two-part profile of the magazine that sent its editors and friends off muttering about hatchet jobs and "parajournalism." Wolfe's article ran in New York magazine, then the Sunday supplement of The New York Herald-Tribune. His first installment was headlined "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of The Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of The Walking Dead!" It was a great piece, nasty and accurate. "The Ruler of 43rd Street" was William Shawn. The New Yorker's editor, whom Wolfe called "the museum curator, the mummifier...
Delivery Boy. As a boy, Jackson was a poor athlete, an avid Boy Scout and a skillful debater. At 13, he won a prize from the Everett Herald for diligence as a newspaper delivery boy. Its comic page chronicled the adventures of a newspaper reporter named Scoop, who was the inspiration for Jackson's nickname. His newspaper route included Everett's red-light district, where Jackson was appalled to find prominent men patronizing whorehouses, gambling dens and speakeasies. Indeed, in his commencement speech at his high school graduation in 1930, Jackson primly lectured his audience about the evils...
...news industry's new recession is still relatively mild. Advertising revenues generally were up about 5% last year. But costs soared, newspaper circulation dropped slightly, and classified-ad linage fell by as much as 25% at the Miami Herald, Boston Globe and other metropolitan dailies-largely because of the slump in hiring, home building and car sales. The price of newsprint, about $175 a ton in late 1973, hit $260 a ton last month. Magazine advertising pages were down 2% last year overall, and many executives fear that 1975 will be worse. Says Esquire Publishing Group President Jerry Jontry...
...squeeze shows, literally. The Los Angeles Times has reduced page size by a fraction of an inch to conserve costly paper, and the Miami Herald will follow suit next month. The Herald and others are switching from an eight-column to a six-column format, at least partly to save on wasted white space between columns. Papers like the Minneapolis Tribune, Houston Chronicle and Boston Globe are now cramming ten columns onto their classified pages instead of the usual eight...
...Reporters who would not hesitate to ferret out Watergate wrongdoing can be slow to investigate industry pricing policies, question whether suspiciously large price hikes are fully justified by rising costs or merely constitute price gouging, or examine the inflationary effects of monopolistic or Government regulatory policies. A recent Boston Herald-American story, for example, simplistically concluded that local retailers were raising their prices because "inflation is killing them...