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Every salaried newsman, they say, dreams of some day buying his own little newspaper. For New York Times Columnist James Reston, the dream has come true. Last week he announced that he had purchased the Vineyard Gazette (average circ. 5,900), the 122-year-old weekly that serves the resort island of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. If Reston ever gives up his Washington beat to ruminate for the Gazette, it will not be all that much of a comedown. For the Gazette is one of the most colorful and quoted of U.S. weeklies...
Atop its sturdy base, the Los Angeles Times (circ. 861,350), it has added magazines and book-publishing companies, including the New American Library...
...Habit of Losing. By the standards of metropolitan journalism, Loeb's Union Leader (circ. 55,000) is not very big. Nevertheless, it is New Hampshire's largest and only statewide daily. As such, it is read and feared by every politician courting the New Hampshire vote. The candidates supported by Loeb -the late Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Brigadier General Harrison Thyng-have a habit of losing. Richard Nixon doubtless has mixed feelings about Loeb's support in the current presidential primary. But better to be liked than hated by Loeb. In the 1964 primary, he referred...
...Although it will involve a definite conflict of interest," Mayor Sam Yorty once joshed, "the city of Los Angeles has purchased the Los Angeles Times." The gibe against his old foe, the most powerful daily in the West (circ. 861,350), has earned Yorty many a laugh. No longer. By last week, the six-year-old Yorty administration was up to its funny bone in its first major scandal, a real-life conflict-of-interest case exposed, naturally, by the L.A. Times...
...sounder shape than ever before. Though there are some 25 million television sets in Japan-more than in any other country except the U.S.-newspaper circulation has been growing, and no major newspapers have folded in the past decade. Five Tokyo-based national newspapers blanket the country: Asahi (circ. 5.1 million), Yomiuri (4.6 million), Mainichi (4,000,000), Sankei (1.9 million) and Nihon Keizai (930,000). Putting out 42 daily editions, Asahi has 2,000 editorial staffers, 295 domestic bureaus and 24 correspondents overseas. Journalism is a profession with prestige in Japan, and papers are swamped with job applicants. This...