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...exhaustive card- catalog searches and high-speed analysis of myriad numbers until the machine kicks out revelatory patterns. In 1979, for instance, the Miami Herald scanned with a computer all 2 million of Dade County's property-tax assessments to dig out inequities. In 1984 Long Island's (N.Y.) Newsday parsed every state- awarded highway contract in the area and all major county sewer contracts over eleven years to discover that five favored firms collected 86% of the boodle...
...before the Sun deal, the company said that it was buying the National Journal (circ. 5,100), a prestigious Washington weekly. Once known mainly for its flagship paper, the Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror now draws about 40% of its revenues from its East Coast operations. One star performer: Newsday (circ. 582,388), a fast-growing Long Island daily that is ambitiously expanding its distribution in New York City...
...paraded the Hindenburg explosion, the end of World War II and other newsworthy events until its operator, the New York Times,pulled the plug in 1962. Resurrected in 1965 by Life and other sponsors, it flickered until 1977. Last week's comeback is a $1 million promotional effort by Newsday, a Long Island newspaper intent on invading the city...
...newspapers that carry the strip, about half a dozen, including the Los Angeles Times, canceled the Sinatra series, despite assurances that Universal's libel lawyers had reviewed the cartoons. A dozen other papers, among them Long Island's Newsday, refused to run the Dellacroce installment on the grounds that the caption failed to point out that Dellacroce had been acquitted of the 1974 killing. Editors at the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune blue- penciled mention of the Calise murder. The Daily News, for example, simply called Dellacroce "underboss of Gambino...
...bought the paper in 1976 (from 500,000 to 900,000), the tabloid still loses about $10 million a year. Potential buyers include the Chicago-based Tribune Co., which publishes the New York Daily News (circ. 1,391,000), and the Times Mirror Co., owner of Long Island's Newsday (circ. 542,000), which is making a strong bid to break into the New York City market. Either company, however, might purchase the Post only to close down a pesky competitor and take over its press plants...