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...from a 64-year low of 397,000 in September, but the Bulletin's share of the city's newspaper advertising linage was still dropping, from an anemic 28% in November, to 24% in January, compared with the 60% commanded by the morning Inquirer (circ. 424,000). After losing $21.5 million in 1981, the Bulletin was dropping nearly $3 million per month when Charter gave up. Said Publishing Analyst John Morton: "Anyone trying to sell a newspaper in that condition would need a mask...
...York City, the News (circ. 1.5 million) commands 34% of the newspaper advertising, compared with 60.6% for the prosperous Times (circ. 887,000) and 5.6% for the money-losing Post (circ. 764,000). Onerous union contracts, high overhead and the start-up costs of a misguided (and now discontinued) afternoon edition helped push the News's losses to $11 million last year. This year, according to insiders, they are expected to exceed $20 million. To turn the paper around, a buyer would have to invest $50 million in its aging physical plant and win contract concessions from...
...Cleveland a local millionaire named Joseph E. Cole stepped in a year ago to rescue the afternoon Press (circ. 305,000), which had been losing $6 million a year for its previous owner, the Scripps-Howard chain. Cole says a new design and color pictures have boosted circulation. But with the morning Plain Dealer (circ. 401,000) holding a 3-to-l edge in ad linage, the Press is still in danger...
...topics that had been forbidden in the universities, such as Poland's history between the world wars. New publications bloomed like wild flowers. Edited by Catholic Intellectual Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the weekly Solidarnosc quickly reached a nationwide circulation of 500,000, easily outdistancing the once-prestigious party weekly Polityka (circ...
President Reagan was making his way out of the White House press room after concluding his fifth news conference last Tuesday when CBS White House Correspondent Lesley Stahl held up a copy of the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly (circ. 335,800). David Stockman, Director of the President's Office of Management and Budget, was on the cover. Had the President, asked Stahl, seen Stockman's critique of his economic program in the magazine? The President, taken aback, replied that he would ask Stockman what he had said. He did. And the furor that followed (yeeNATION)provided...