Word: paper
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...from ridiculous to troubling: last year reporters were told they could not dial directory assistance, and at one brief point all long-distance calls were banned, as was travel to New York City, all of two hours away. "Morale has been low, there's no denying that," says the paper's executive editor, Robert Rosenthal...
...first year on the job, Willes slashed a grand total of 3,000 jobs, including almost 800 that died along with the New York edition of Newsday--which hemorrhaged some $100 million in its 10 years of life--and 140 newsgathering positions at the once fabulously profitable L.A. paper...
...editor Maxwell King insists that the Inquirer has "managed to stay whole in all the important ways." This fall, for instance, the paper ran a series, "America: Who Stole the Dream?," for which two reporters spent more than two years, beginning before the 1995 cutbacks, researching the loss of decent jobs for blue-collar workers. King does not object to the demand for double-digit profitability, but he does wonder what further compromises may be necessary to achieve it. "We have stuck stubbornly to substance, and we've lost a lot of circulation," he says. "What makes a newspaper successful...
...Many papers are deciding it does not. While cutting their investigative or foreign staffs, they are beefing up entertainment and sports coverage. Many journalists are worried that USA Today and its children will take over the world. Derided as "McPaper" when it was founded in 1982 by Gannett chairman Al Neuharth, USA Today pioneered the delivery of news in light, bright, four-color bites. The paper now has a national circulation of 1.6 million, second only to the Wall Street Journal, and has announced a jump in ad pages and revenue over last year...
While the paper's quality has improved dramatically over the years, with recent investigative reports on air bags, for instance--as its publisher, Thomas Curley, puts it, "we've had breadth; now we're trying to add depth"--USA Today is also seen as a bad influence on many big-city newsrooms. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for example, now bans front-page stories that jump to another page, which means major news events must be covered in a paltry 150 words or so. Many papers have shifted to civic, or public, journalism, an increasingly popular but controversial editorial policy...