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Last week the New York Herald Tribune was mercifully killed after a 20-year illness for which there was no longer any cure. Cursed by a second 114-day strike in three years, the Trib's owners examined its future. The pre-strike circulation of 303,000 seemed likely to slip to 200,000, half their break-even point. Advertising would certainly decline; editorial staffers had already deserted in droves. There was little of tangible value left, except the paper's past great reputation...
...recent years, rumors that the New York Herald Tribune would fold have appeared with more regularity than the paper. Last week the stories seemed closer to being true than ever before. As a result of the 16-week strike that has silenced the Trib since it became part of the merged World Journal Tribune Inc., an estimated three-quarters of the Trib's key staffers have drifted away to other jobs; the rest have now been quietly advised to start looking elsewhere. At week's end, W.J.T.. President Matt Meyer said that the Trib's fate...
...League Draft. The resulting roster, however, left the New York Herald Tribune perilously short of staffers. To replace them, Trib editors had to fill the ranks with reporters from the afternoon paper. "It was the greatest draft since the big-league baseball teams were raided for men to make up the Mets," said World Journal Editor Frank Conniff, who sat down with Trib editors to parcel out the players. Hardly recognizing the names of some of the staffers they were acquiring, Trib editors simply had to take their chances...
Shoveling Flakes. After painting that encouraging overall picture, Fairlie next turns to a more detailed examination of "the great, internationally known newspapers"- specifically the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. The Trib,* as he read it, was entirely unworthy of its once lofty position." In its editorials (as in almost every other important part of the paper, except its sport pages, Eugenia Sheppard and its team of columnists) the Herald Tribune has to all intents and purposes abdicated. It has ceased to be a newspaper in anything but name...
...sounded thinner. The publishers knew all too well how quickly the public gets out of the habit of reading a newspaper that is not available, and how hard it is to woo them back. It was one thing for a lone and idealistic publisher, Jock Whitney, to keep the Trib going despite its losses. A corporation of which he owned only a third could not be expected to be so kindhearted...