Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broadly curious, ad-fat Newsday (TIME. Sept. 13, 1954) has scooped 268,626 Long Island readers right out of the pants pockets of New York City's seven major dailies since 1940. Under the guns of Los Angeles' four dailies, 30 suburban and small-town papers share more than 700,000 circulation; in West Covina. only 20 miles from the Los Angeles Times building, the three-year-old San Gabriel Valley Tribune (circ. 30,195) last week published a paper of 78 pages-only two pages smaller than the mighty Times -and crammed with news...
Nibbled to Death. Many fast-growing papers, such as California's San Bernadino Sun and Telegram (combined circ. 58,076), which cover the biggest county in the U.S.. fence metropolitan competitors with networks of string correspondents, special editions for local communities, one of the city-slick Sunday magazines. Says the publisher of a small-city Midwestern chain: "You have to be the plus paper." Through such tactics, Michigan's middlesized dailies have pared more than 100,000 Sunday circulation from Hearst's Detroit Times. Laments a metropolitan newspaper executive in Atlanta: "We're being nibbled...
...coastline. For $8,400, Photographer-Reporter Reddick had become owner, publisher and editor of the weekly Newport Harbor News Press. Far from succumbing to the easygoing ways of Newport's cruise-and-booze set, Newsman Reddick covered the town as if it were just another waterfront, turned his paper into an aggressive, news-packed triweekly (circ. 4,445) that not infrequently pinned back the Examiner's ears on a big story...
...fight the 25-year-old Lima News after crusty old Raymond Cyrus Hoiles and his Freedom Newspapers had turned it into a soapbox for his ultrareactionary views, the Citizen had edged out of the red after only two months. "We were warned," said Publisher Howenstine, "that a new paper couldn't expect to make a profit in less than two years...
Even more important for the Citizen's survival, said Publisher Kamin, is its owners' duty "to see that apathy does not creep into Lima." Said he: "We have sought to build a paper that the community can be proud of. We are here to do a good job of publishing a newspaper, not to carry on a feud...