NEWSLETTER SET BY NEW REPUBLIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300280015-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 12, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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ITE R'TERS
BY NEW _PTJii1G
(. Biweekly Publication Will
Be Offered: in January
By MARTIN.ARNOLD
The New Republic will start
publish , ing-in January a biweelc-
ly- newsletter by Tristram Cof=
fin called The , Washington
Spectator.
Robert 'J. Myers,:.the maga-
zine's publisher, says the new
newsletter is intended to fill th
gap left when I. F.. Stone retired
his I. F. Stone's Weekly, per-
haps the most` famous political
and investigative newsletter, to
become a contributor to Th
Mr. Myers said the new nes
wsletter already. had 200 sub-
scribers and, would become pro-
The weekly, New Republic
will drop its syndication of co--
iumnists, except. for- the one
signed for about. 317. years by
-R.B,,. who is Richard L.
Strout,:.. a Washington corre-
spondent for"The .. Christian
Science Monitor. : ..
About 50 newspapers buy
T.R.B. from The New. Republic.
In 1970, The. New. Republic
syndicated a weekly column by
Ralph Nader, the consumer ad-
vocate, which. gained 80 news-
papers..Mr. Nader has switched
to syndication --by"" The Des
Moines Register.:
Mr. Myers; said he-had found
that for the('magazine. "syndi-
cating columnists was more
trouble than it was worth."
cated. by the.'magazine were
Stari