Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston Herald American was dying, it seemed, even before it was born. Founded in June 1972 as the merger of a played-out Hearst tabloid, the Record American, with a once elegant Brahmin broadsheet that had gone broke, the Herald Traveler, the fledgling paper lost more than $35 million in its first decade. Its circulation, 238,000 as of last week, was less than half that of the rival Boston Globe (circ. 510,000), which runs away with four times the advertising linage. Thus almost no one in Boston was surprised when the Hearst Corp. announced that the Herald American...
Page said bargaining with the 11 unions at the 250,000-circulation morning tabloid would "take place in privacy," and gave no other details...
Last weekend, the rival Boston Globe reported that Murdoch wants to make substantial personnel cuts in the tabloid's mechanical departments and eliminate job protection for senior editorial workers. The Globe said Murdoch had given editorial union leaders until Nov. 30 to obtain agreement from rank and file members...
Murdoch also has publishing interests in Great Britain and the United States, including the New York Post, the weekly tabloid Star, San Antonio Express and News, the Village Voice and New York Magazine...
...royal tiff" with his wife Diana, 21. Newspapers, after apparently talking to loose-lipped servants, headlined the news that following two weeks of sodden weather at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Diana was "bored to tears" and insisted that Charles return with her to London. In addition, the racy British tabloid the Sun, citing no reliable source, calculates that since the royal wedding, Diana has added more than 50 ball gowns to her wardrobe (at an average cost of $ 1,700 each) and almost 200 dresses and suits (at over $340 apiece). Repelled by all the tacky reportage, the conservative weekly...