Editors Concerned on Press Freedom; Annual Report Cited
Date: 21 April 1974
By WAYNE KING
Wayne KING
most concern among editors attending Amer Newspaper Editors Soc annual meeting centers on case of Miami Herald v Tornillo, which was argued before US Sup Ct on Apr 18; case arose when Herald refused to print verbatim replies to eds criticizing Pat L Tornillo Jr, unsuccessful candidate for Fla Legis; Tornillo based demand on '13 Fla law requiring newspapers carrying criticisms of pol candidates to 'upon request of such candidate immediately publish free of cost any reply he makes' (M)
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Nashville Paper Costs Rise
Date: 22 April 1974
Nashville Tennessean announces that price of daily edition will rise from 10c to 15c at newsstand and from 45c to 65c a wk for home delivery; price for Sunday edition will rise to 35c from 25c (S)
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Argentine Paper Bombed
Date: 22 April 1974
bomb damages offices of Buenos Aires newspaper El Mundo on April 21 (S)
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Threats to the Press Cited As Publishers Meet Here; Growth Is Cited PUBLISHERS DECRY THREATS TO PRESS
Date: 22 April 1974
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
Amer Newspaper Publishers Assn rept endorses Miami Herald's current Sup Ct challenge to Fla law requiring that free space be provided for pol candidates to reply to editorials criticizing them (S)
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Washington Post Showing Effects of Strike by Guild; Tenth of Normal Staff
Date: 21 April 1974
By PHILIP SHABECOFF
Philip SHABECOFF
Washington Post is undertaking unusual measures to continue to publish paper; fills its pages with wire service articles and several people in management are writing articles, going out on reptg assignments and answering phones; less that 1/10th of more than 380 people who are employed in news dept are reptg to work; paper's exec asst John V Waits Sr repts that paper is printing about 1 1/2 fewer pages of news every day and that classified ad will be down about 20 pages for wk; says that display and circulation has held steady; Robert Levey, chmn of Post's guild unit asserts that paper had already lost more than $500,000 in ad linage since strike began; illus of publisher Katharine Graham (L)
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New Offer in Paper Strike
Date: 22 April 1974
Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild members, striking against Washington Post, plan on April 22 to meet to consider contract offer (S)
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Impeachment on Radio
Date: 22 April 1974
By Charles S. Steinberg
Charles Steinberg
Prof Charles S Steinberg article discusses pros and cons of televising impeachment proceedings, should they occur; holds compromise would be to cover process by natl radio and allow TV to cover them in regular nightly newscasts or in news specials; cartoon
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Printers' Tactics Disrupt News for 4th Day in Row
Date: 22 April 1974
By EMANUEL PERLMUTTER
Emanuel PERLMUTTER
ITU Local 6 members on April 21 slow production at NY Daily News by calling work slowdown, while mediator Theodore Kheel is holding talks with union and mgt negotiators; News 1st edition was delayed by about 10 mins and some contracted ads could not be set; Kheel repts that full negotiating coms of both News and NY Times will meet on April 22; ITU local pres Bertram Powers notes that next few days will be crucial in dispute; summary of issues in dispute (M)
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Newsday Goes to 15c
Date: 21 April 1974
Newsday increases price of daily paper from 10c to 15c on April 22
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NEWS ADS ARE CUT BY UNION'S TACTICS; Classified Ads Cut
Date: 21 April 1974
By DAMON STETSON
Damon STETSON
publication of April 21 editions of New York Daily News are hampered by 3d successive day of slowdowns by printers, resulting in loss of 62 pages of ad and cutbacks or merging of some sections; ITU Local 6 says that its slowdown tactic is continuing; News indicates that it does not plan any disciplinary measures or counteraction before bargaining talks are resumed on April 22; NY Times spokesman repts that refusal of printers to work overtime hasd forced Times to leave out about 1 page of classified ad; mediator Theodore W Kheel holds separate meetings with key negotiators from each side; Local 6 pres Bertram A Powers says that he expects News to lock printers out; suggests possibility that News, faced with continuation of printers' slowdown, may decide to use new electronic and computerized equipment for setting type; says if this is done printers will consider that they have been locked out (M)
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