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...afternoon paper, the World Journal, will replace Hearst's Journal-American and Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram & Sun. Editorial boss will be Frank Conniff, 52, Hearst's national editor, columnist and one-third of the "task force" that has won a Pulitzer Prize for its interviews with world leaders. According to present plans, the World Journal will concentrate on its home town and carry more local news than either of the papers it replaces. It is inheriting far more columnists than it can handle, but after trimming the list it will encourage guest columns from public figures...
...Lack of Skepticism. A new Sunday paper, the World Journal and Tribune, will be a combination of the Sunday edition of the Herald Tribune and the Sun day Journal. Its editor will be Herbert Kamm, 48, now managing editor of the Telegram and a member of its staff since 1943. While the Hearst-Howard weekday mix strikes most observers as workable enough, there is no lack of skepticism about the Sunday lash-up. Jock Whitney and Bill Hearst may not fit comfortably into the same paper. All the publishers will admit is that they plan to keep the Trib...
...York, says Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer, "three papers are losing a great deal of money." He means the Trib, Telegram and Journal. A combination of television, strong suburban dailies and crippling strikes has drained those papers of readers and advertisers. Circulation of the WorldTelegram has dropped from 448,828 in 1960 to 389,291 today; in the same period, Journal-American circulation slipped from 618,802 to 535,310. The Sunday Trib (circ. 360,876), though it has been praised for its sprightliness, has been unable to make much headway against the powerful Sunday Times, with its impressive circulation...
...from the New York Post, which by cutting down on its news coverage has managed to stay in the black. Hearst and Scripps-Howard expect their new paper to maintain the combined circulation of the existing two papers; yet these papers appeal to two distinct sets of readers. The Telegram is aimed at the commuter from the well-to-do suburbs; the more obstreperous Journal-American, with its line-up of combative columnists, is directed primarily at city dwellers. The Sunday Tribune, with its emphasis on arts and fashions, appeals to the city's smart set, and may have...
...staffers at all three papers are trying to be stoics. After ten years of hearing of dire change at their paper, Trib employees are perhaps the least ruffled. "As long as we have Whitney's money, we're all right," says one Trib man. Even at the Telegram, where a reporter was recently bawled out for charging 800 on his expense account for 600 worth of subway trips, some reporters are beginning to roll with the rumors. "I tend to let Zen take care of it," said a young Telegram reporter. "It has so far. When I started...