NEW PAPER FOR NEW YORK READY IN 'ABOUT 6 WEEKS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300310020-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 18, 1970
• Content Type: NSPR

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EDITOR & PUBLISHER
18 April 1970
New paper for New York
ready in `about 6 weeks'
The projected "breakfast tab- by old New Yorkers-who are
loid," Weekday New York, cov- not ready to throw in the towel."
ering local news in New York "We are not coverinl~ the
City, is still six to 10 weeks beautiful people, we are cover-
away from its initial press run ing people in the Bronx, etc.,
of a quarter-million copies, ac- people who haven't been cov-
cording to James A. Smith, pub- Bred for years," he added in a
fisher. .. second run-through of his open-
At a press conference Wed- ing statement for late arriving
nesday at the Overseas Press television people.
Club, smith estimated the The paper is to be printed
"curiosity factor will boost the offset by Rabin Printing Co.,
initial press run to about a 'and distributed by Metropolitan
quarter million; then Weekday News. A dummy issue shows
will settle down to 150,000- "ragged right" typeset in four-
with breakeven around 100,000." column format with a center
"We are prepared to go two fold magazine' 'section, "City
years," Smith said. He indi- Life." It will be -priced at 10c.
cated city editor Allan Wolper There will be no editorial
and associate editor E. Peter page,. and the paper plans a
Reich, seated nearby, as the "suburban approach to the
"principals in the operation- city," with offices in the five
plus my father," who have borourrhs of New York and a
money in the venture. A seed cents". city desk in Manhattan..
money figure of "under a mil- Wolper, the city editor, left
lion" was given. the New York educational tv
The 22-year-old publisher is station, where he was an asso-
the ion of Abbott Smith of ciate producer. His newspaper
Abbott Smith Associates, New background includes the AP in
York City, specialists in re- New York, the Providence (R.
cruitment of training personnel. I.) Journal and the Passaic-
Smith, a journalism intern at Clifton (N.J.) Herold-News.
the Washington Post in 1968, Reich, who opened the press
left the Massachusetts Institute conference as a co-founder, at-
of Technology last November tended Bates College in Maine
after four and a half years. His and the University of Grenoble
publishing experience is that of in France before Army service
starting a weekly newspaper during which he did public in-
and a monthly while at MIT, formation work. He was a Tine
and a community newspaper, stringer in Europe, and his last
Capital East. (,'o ette, in Wash- job was assistant night city
ington, all offset operations. editor of the Staten Island
The median age of the staff (N.Y.) Advance.
recruited .to date Smith put at Robert Laird of Mayor John
"about 28, with some as old as Lindsay's press oflice , read a
3ri." He added, "Age is a state letter of congratulations from
of mind. We expect to be read the Mayor.
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