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Poking fun at USA Today, bemoaning a lack of public confidence in the press and worrying about the liability crisis in the newsroom, a panel of distinguished journalists sounded off yesterday on the state of journalism...
...settings of Regrets Only--a major Washington newsroom, high-powered dinner parties--are unmistakably Sally Quinn's turf. Hostesses are grasping, Senators calculating, and just about everybody randy. "It's a novel about Washington," Quinn explains. "There are so many living and breathing cliches walking around this town that you sort of have to put them in." An amorous Arab diplomat gives a blond reporter a Mercedes. Before the Shah fell, it was rumored that Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi had offered Quinn one. "It never happened, but some papers reported that it did," says Quinn...
...entered into a joint operating agreement with the Times, under which it used the larger paper's business and production services while retaining its own editorial staff. In 1977 it decided to back out of the pact and had to seek donations to keep going. By 1979 the newsroom staff numbered eleven people, the daily edition had withered to 16 pages, and circulation was 11,000, in contrast to 46,000 for the Times...
...daily newspapers, the Star (circ. 34,464) is not exactly the nation's best known. Yet within the scope of its own ambitions, % the Star embodies what is sturdy and special about American journalism. Owned by the Rowe family, the paper is adamantly independent of any power outside the newsroom. Though the paper carries foreign and national news, its true value lies in its coverage of the local scene, from city council sessions to school basketball games. Blessedly free of boosterism, the Star often casts a critical eye over its own backyard. It is small newspapers like the Star --independent...
...editorial employees, type was set by hand, and circulation fell shy of 6,500. Today the population is 134,800 and Spotsylvania is one of the fastest-growing counties in Virginia. Meanwhile, the Star has entered the high-tech age, with 23 computer terminals in the cramped newsroom and an offset printing press next door...