Word: readership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite in character for a paper that once moved Charles de Gaulle to jest: "Each morning when its readers pick it up, they murmur: 'St. Figaro, reassure us.' " Pride in Speculation. Over the years, the paper has proved consistently reas suring to its affluent, conservative readership. Figaro prides itself on being no ordinary paper that merely dispenses the news. It has always had literary ambitions, and part of the front page every day is devoted to a column of philosophical or literary speculation...
Such fare sometimes turns out to be heavy going, but no paper boasts a more loyal readership. Figaro's circulation has now reached 400,000 - third largest of all French papers. And since almost a quarter of its readers live out side Paris, Figaro comes close to being a national newspaper. For its rural readers, it also produces a weekly 84-page magazine, Figaro Agricole; for city dwellers, it publishes a weekly review of the arts, Figaro Litteraire, which is so packed with classified advertising that it has been dubbed Figaro Immobilier (Real Estate Figaro...
...literary editor, and talk about "The Art of the Film" on TV. "It's not so much letting Mr. Kauffmann go as asking Mr. Kerr to come in," said Executive Editor Turner Catledge, who admits to having approached Kerr twice before. "Kerr seems to suit the New York readership better...
...study of a magazine. For example, you have to assume that the people who advertise have some expectation based on previously known facts of selling their products, so they must make surveys as to whether or not this is a good bet among a given magazine's readership...
...year, 500 copies of as amateurish-looking T5-page literary magazine with the vegusly menacing name of scorpion appeared in the Square. It sold for a dollar a copy, which was 20 coast more than it cost to print, and Robert Justice '66, its creator, lost 300 dollars. Whatever readership the first issue acquired had deserted both Cambridge and scorpion by the time the second came out is June...