Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...struggling Herald American will keep going - as a tabloid...
...front-page announcement was brief: "Good morning. You'll be getting a new newspaper Sunday." Thus the Boston Herald American (circ. 209,128 and falling) last week ended speculation that it was about to fold. Despite heavy pressure from the bulging Boston Globe (circ. 502,920), the Herald American is optimistically pushing on. Says Publisher James Dorris: "We're giving the people of Boston and New England something they want, a compact, easy-reading, lively newspaper...
...scrambling to get headlines for a professor proud of some scientific advancement, and in the afternoon be running interference for a scholar who claims his studies cannot be interrupted by chattering journalists. And then Lord might discover that it's Thursday, and her weekly column for the Boston Herald American is due. "I'm just a flack," the lady...
...than merely supervise in-house news releases. Before coming to Harvard in 1953 to write fund-raising copy, she worked for Time, Life, and Madamoiselle. She "still keeps her hand in it" every now and then with a free-lance piece, and then there's her column in the Herald American. Every week, Lord and her daughter, Mary, comment on a current issue, emphasizing the perspectives of different generations and the relationship between mother and daughter. "It's always loads of fun because we both love to write," the elder Lord says...
...roots of the competition in Dallas (pop. 904,000) can be traced back to 1970, when the second-place Times Herald was acquired by the Times Mirror Co., which counts the Los Angeles Times, Long Island's Newsday and the Denver Post among its string of highly rated papers. The new owners started pumping in money and recruiting new blood from top papers across the country. In 1975 Executive Editor Kenneth Johnson, now 47, a tough West Virginian given to chainsmoking and chewing out reporters, was hired from his job as vice president at the Washington Post to revitalize...