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...face, the Herald Tribune wouldn't seem worth the heartburn. It sells just 264,000 copies, spread thinly over 180 countries. Investors were happy to see Graham shed the money loser; the Washington Post Co.'s shares rose on the news. "Who cares about it except some guy in a bar in France?" said Ed Atorino, newspaper analyst at Blaylock & Partners...
That paper, the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, is little known in the U.S. but prized by Americans who live and travel abroad. The tug-of-war over it won outsize attention for the glimpse it offered into the leading families of America's media royalty--and into the divergent growth strategies pursued by their companies...
...Times had offered to buy the Post's 50% stake in the Herald Tribune, but the Post didn't want to sell. Then the Times made like Don Corleone: it threatened to start a competing international edition and choke off any further subsidy of the Herald Tribune, which lost about $5 million last year. Graham responded with an indignant internal memo accusing the Times of "threatening the future of the newspaper and its staff." Graham concluded, however, that continued joint ownership of the Herald Tribune was "untenable." The talks ended with the Times's signing a letter of intent...
...recent statewide poll by the Boston Herald found that 63 percent of voters support the measure. But Cambridge has been a center of the opposition...
...recent poll by the Boston Herald, 66 percent of voters now oppose Question 3—a non-binding measure that would advise the legislature to continue public funding for political candidates...