Article: TWO STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT: THE DEMISE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE.

In 1966, John Hay Whitney, the financier and former ambassador to Great Britain, finally gave up and closed the New York Herald Tribune after spending eight years and nearly 40 million dollars trying to keep one of the great American newspapers afloat. The Herald Tribune, like all seven metropolitan papers in New York City, faced a difficult market during the late 1950s and early 1960s--made all the worse by the geographical pressure of suburbanization and accelerating competition from television newscasts. In the end, two devastating strikes by the Herald Tribune's typesetters' union during 1962-63 and 1966 finally cost the newspaper its few remaining readers. As the New ...

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