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...wise publisher who knows his own newspaper. In a BBC-TV interview, Britain's Cecil King candidly explained why his London Daily Mirror is not likely to be displaced as Great Britain's largest daily (circ. 5,000,000). "The success of the Mirror," he said, "was due to the fact that it appealed to people who wanted something simpler than the Daily Express. But there comes a time when each paper has reached a lower level than the previous one, until you get down to bedrock. You can't publish a paper which appeals to people...
Ridiculous. Elected to a six-year term last fall, Judge New has been feeling Editor Neal's needle ever since he took office. The judge demanded publication of the names and addresses of all juvenile offenders and their parents. The Ledger (circ. 7,500) went along at first, then decided the idea was unwise. The judge also decreed that all arrested juveniles be held in the city jail without bond for as long as two weeks pending a hearing. The Ledger called that policy "terrible." Indeed, it led one 17-year-old boy to file a federal writ...
Fold It? The target was the liberal afternoon New York Post (circ. 337,556). Publisher Dorothy ("Dolly") Schiff, 62, who has been increasingly concerned over the paper's financial condition, installed a punch-tape IBM computer that can automatically prepare edited copy at the rate of better than 2,000 lines an hour-theoretically ten times faster than a journeyman Linotypist. After experimenting with it on a dry-run basis, Mrs. Schiff last week ordered the machine into operation. The union balked, and Bertram Powers, single-minded president of the International Typographical Union Local No. 6, laid down...
Akers joined Marshall Field's Chicago Sun in 1941, and when the Sun merged with the Times in 1948, he was named managing editor. "He had a passion for perfection," says a newsman. "He just wanted a great paper in a hurry." The tabloid Sun-Times (circ. 534,000) did not become a great paper under Akers, but it did become a dedicated one; Akers encouraged depth reporting in such areas as education and religion, before most other dailies got around to it. Among his expose triumphs, he uncovered a "flower fund" in the books of a Cook County...
...politics, and they tend to embark simultaneously on the same liberal campaigns: to abolish right-to-work laws, for instance, or to ban lie-detector tests from employment procedure. But the labor press no longer paints issues entirely in black and white, says Gordon Cole, editor of the Machinist (circ. 868,000) who once worked for the Wall Street Journal. "Now they present a lot more grey. In fact, people don't believe you, if your articles aren't grey...