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American Newspaper Publishers Association, Published 1967. Wraps, xi, 82 pp.; 23 cm. Foreword by Stanford Smith.
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In Acceptable condition. Ex-library. Staple bound in glossy cream wraps; front cover printed in black with a facsimile of the World Journal Tribune's final front page of May 5, 1967. Clear library tape reinforcing spine and extending onto both covers, with scuffing and color loss to black band along lower front spine edge and a small brown spot on tape at rear. Library call number label on front cover. Mild shelf wear with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, and light soiling and toning to covers. Binding tight. University of California, Berkeley, Department of Journalism stamp on title page, short ink mark beneath author's name, and call number in ink on foreword page. Pages lightly toned, otherwise unmarked. Report commissioned by the American Newspaper Publishers Association on the World Journal Tribune (the "Widget"), the evening paper formed in 1966 by the merger of the Herald Tribune, the Journal-American and the World-Telegram and Sun. It published 233 issues between September 12, 1966 and May 5, 1967 and closed as what Sage calls "a $40 million disaster." Sage covers the shrinking New York newspaper field, the 114-day strike of 1962-63, Bertram Powers and ITU Local 6 ("Big Six") and the fight over composing-room automation, the long strike that delayed the paper's debut, and the death of the Herald Tribune. A chronology lists events from 1958 to 1967. Sage was an editorial writer for the World Journal Tribune and formerly chief editorial writer for the World-Telegram. The foreword states the report is printed exactly as submitted, without editing by ANPA or its members. New York magazine, which began as the Herald Tribune's Sunday supplement, outlived the paper. Contents: Chronological Highlights; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Prologue to Disaster; Part Two: Birth on a Battlefield; Part Three: Peace at High Prices; Part Four: 233 Days to Disaster; Part Five: The Post-Mortems, the Survivors and the Outlook.