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...PAPER: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE by Richard Kluger. Horace Greeley, Karl Marx and Tom Wolfe all worked for the Trib; another former employee recalls more than a century of colorful news and newsmakers...
...over its own vast strength. Consistently profitable and increasingly dominant in the nation's third largest city, the paper employs 530 full-time editorial staffers, including 16 correspondents in Washington, eight in other U.S. cities outside Illinois, and four abroad. Yet for a paper of its visibility, the Trib has too little impact outside its region. The staff shares the industry's enthusiasm for blockbuster features, which tend to be deftly written and slickly packaged rather than penetrating. Says Journalism Director Neale Copple of the University of Nebraska: "The paper is solid but not very exciting...
...Tribune has shed almost completely a tradition of Midwestern Republican dogmatism, and it covers Chicago's tumultuous Democratic machine fairly. Among the paper's stars are Columnists Bob Greene, who specializes in offbeat portraits of ordinary people, and Mike Royko, a Chicago institution who jumped to the Trib along with about a dozen others when Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch took over its tabloid rival, the Sun-Times...
Editor James Squires, 41, a former Washington bureau chief who returned to the Trib in July 1981 after a five-year stint as top editor of the company-owned Orlando Sentinel, sees himself as the paper's "biggest fan and most severe critic." He has brought verve and consistency to layouts, unified the scattershot staffs, and pressured editors to ensure communication between reporters covering related stories-a problem at other dailies. Vows Squires: "We are coming into our own as an investigative paper...
Second City, natural home of one-term Jane and Al Capone Donahue (Phil) and Banks (Ernie) Clarence Darrow, big attorney Mayor Daley, William Paley The Trib's McCormick, Ebony's Johnson Kup and Hef and Gloria Swanson City that works! No social strife! And at least one man who danced with his wife...