Word: journal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall Street Journal had an unusual problem for a newspaper: too many people wanted to read it. Circulation rose 154,588 last year, which is about as many copies as the San Francisco Examiner sells every day. When circulation spurted another 136,604 in the first three months of this year-surpassing the New York News, then the nation's largest daily-the Journal (circ. 1.8 million) eased up on radio and television promotion and raised its newsstand price from 30? to 35?. Warren H. Phillips, 54, chairman of the parent Dow Jones & Co.,* said the paper simply could...
Morgan notes that the eight miners were smokers or ex-smokers and suggests that tobacco, not coal dust, was the real culprit. In an editorial accompanying the report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Editor William Barclay is even blunter: "The taxpayer will be penalized twice; first in subsidizing those who grow tobacco and then in compensating coal miners who smoke tobacco...
Soviet TV is the government's loudspeaker to the people. "Television serves and will serve as a mighty weapon of the propaganda of the beautiful," says the party journal, Kommunist. Americans will not be surprised to learn that the propaganda programs are relentlessly boring. They may be somewhat startled, however, to discover that many of the others are astonishingly good...
There are speciality magazines everywhere--for lapidarists, and model trainists and aviationists and autoeroticists. But there is only one publication designed solely for those brave men who make a career of fighting other people's battles. Soldier of Fortune--The Journal of Professional Adventurers...
...editorial staff members of Le Monde (circ. 500,000), the most influential journal in France, last week elected their next director, Claude Julien, 55. After a tutorial two years under present Director Jacques Fauvet, 66, Julien will take over the paper in 1982, serving as chief editor and publisher, a position of major influence in the Fifth Republic. Founded in 1944 by Hubert Beuve-Méry, who was designated its first director by Charles de Gaulle, Le Monde is required daily reading for French government officials and diplomats around the world. Mixing first-rate reporting with a heavy dose...