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Lewis began her journalistic career in 1941, and writes for the Washington Post, Newsday, and the New York Times. She in currently based in Paris, and her Morris Lecture will be on "America in 1982: How Does It Look from Here...
...have trooped off to the suburbs. Says Publishing Analyst John Morton: "It's not that newspapers are dead. It's just that readership has been redistributed." Over the past two decades, for example, the News lost more than half a million readers while Long Island's Newsday upped its circulation 59%, to 507,000, and the Bergen County (N.J.) Record registered a 46% increase...
...notice the date. The end of the war meant trouble for the News. Those outer borough families which could moved to the suburbs, where several dailies--particularly Long Island's Newsday--sprung up to serve them. Further, the expatriates were replaced mostly by Blacks and Hispanics, to whom the News did not appeal nearly as much. Or they were not replaced at all; the population of New York has declined by more than a million since its peak after...
...form has matured, and among the two dozen or so surviving U.S. daily tabloids are some solid journalistic entries. Long Island's Newsday (circ. 503,336) provides a well-rounded package of original reporting and features to a large, densely populated suburban area. In Chicago, the Sun-Times (circ. 661, 531) is known for investigative reporting: last week it broke the Cardinal Cody story. Two recent entries indicate there may be life in the old format yet. In Philadelphia, the Journal (circ. 109,622), founded in 1977, is gaining a foothold with a sprightly mix of sports and gossip...
...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...