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This summer, after scrapping plans to turn the paper into a tabloid, Hearst put it up for sale. Company executives, who flew from New York City to announce the shutdown in the paper's newsroom, said they were unable to find a buyer. Among those who declined to purchase the operation, which reportedly lost $2 million a month, were industrialist Marvin Davis and Jose Lozano, publisher of the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion. Now that the Herald Examiner is gone, Los Angeles becomes the latest and largest addition to the growing list of U.S. cities with only one major daily...
...early days, the Times often misstepped. Wire copy on Moon's conviction for tax evasion was doctored. The newsroom became a revolving-door workplace, with constant turnover and inexperienced staffers. During last year's presidential race, the Times, pursuing a rumor about Michael Dukakis' receiving psychiatric treatment, twisted a quote from Dukakis' sister-in-law to manufacture a headline: DUKAKIS KIN HINTS AT SESSIONS. Two reporters quit in protest...
...took our pens and our markers and marched from the newsroom into the bathroom. In the newsroom, caricatures of male faces lined the walls--the past presidents of The Crimson, only three of whom have been women over a 116-year history. In the women's room, we could all be rebels against that record, even if we took our rhetoric no further than the door...
...have a team I can love and cherish and call my own. Someone with a dolphin on his head gleefully ran into the newsroom last week yelling, "Woo, Miami! Woo! Woo!" My envy with his joy and affinity for his beloved squad was equalled only by my fashionable disdain for his Howard Johnson-esque orange hat with a blue dolphin jutting...
Since then, several papers, including the Post, have reiterated their policies limiting outside political activity by reporters. Some have even begun holding ethics seminars in the newsroom to underscore the point...