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<text id=89TT2963>
<title>
Nov. 13, 1989: Final Edition
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Nov. 13, 1989 Arsenio Hall
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
PRESS, Page 77
Final Edition
Red ink stops the presses at the L.A. Herald Examiner
</hdr><body>
<p> Reporters at the Herald Examiner, Los Angeles' No. 2 daily,
are used to having doors shut in their faces. After the editors
announced earlier this year that they would publish a series of
tough articles on the city's problems during Mayor Tom
Bradley's campaign for a fifth term, the paper's reporters were
barred from the mayor's office. But that did not stop them from
scooping their powerful rival, the Los Angeles Times, by
printing damaging reports about Bradley's finances just three
weeks before the election. Last week, however, Herald Examiner
staffers faced a far more formidable lockout: the Hearst Corp.,
unable to find a buyer for the unprofitable daily, announced
that it would shut the paper's doors after Thursday's edition.
</p>
<p> Founded by William Randolph Hearst in 1903, the Herald
Examiner was once the country's largest afternoon daily. Since
1967, however, it has seen its circulation slide from 729,000
to a paltry 238,000. The paper switched to morning publication
in 1981, but that attempt to accommodate modern reading habits
did little to stem the continuing losses. Analysts also blamed
intense pressure from the aggressive and highly respected Times
(circ. 1.1 million) and from successful suburban papers, such
as the Daily News of Los Angeles (186,000), based in the San
Fernando Valley, and the Orange County Register (348,000).
</p>
<p> This summer, after scrapping plans to turn the paper into
a tabloid, Hearst put it up for sale. Company executives, who
flew from New York City to announce the shutdown in the paper's
newsroom, said they were unable to find a buyer. Among those
who declined to purchase the operation, which reportedly lost
$2 million a month, were industrialist Marvin Davis and Jose
Lozano, publisher of the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinion.
Now that the Herald Examiner is gone, Los Angeles becomes the
latest and largest addition to the growing list of U.S. cities
with only one major daily.
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</body></article>
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