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Article: The loyal Chicago Daily News alumni. (former employees of the Chicago Daily News)
- Article from:
- American Journalism Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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They say that few things are quite as dead as yesterday's newspaper. So it should follow that a dead newspaper would be even deader. But if the love of many journalists for long-dead but not long-forgotten newspapers is any indication, maybe that's not the case.
It seems that journalists around the country still hold a flame for their former papers that have since moved on to the great newsroom in the sky. The New York Herald-Tribune, for example, shut down in 1966, but veterans of its glory days plan to assemble this month for the last of 30 annual reunions. The Washington Star, whose last issue was published in 1981, inspired similar loyalty among the alumni ...