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Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970

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was less about protecting editorial diversity within community newspaper markets than about inflating the profit margins of national newspaper chains. Large newspaper chains were able to sustain high profits while driving independent newspapers out of business, or forcing them to sell their stake to a chain. In fact, President
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consolidation of the newspaper industry as a whole, and the decline in readership and interest in evening newspapers in particular, which many observers have attributed to television and the internet, of which the former seems to be magnified by the presence of several 24-hour-a-day news operations on
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The Newspaper Preservation Act was touted as a relief measure to allow multiple newspapers competing in the same market to cut costs, thus ensuring that no one paper could have supremacy in the market by driving the other(s) out of business. However, mounting evidence suggests the passage of the Act
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Arrangements similar to this allowed most medium-sized United States cities to have two daily newspapers until fairly recently. The number of joint operating agreements, as well as the number of evening-published daily newspapers, has declined considerably in recent years, due to the ongoing
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laws. Its drafters argued that this would allow the survival of multiple daily newspapers in a given urban market where circulation was declining. This exemption stemmed from the observation that the alternative is usually for at least one of the newspapers, generally the one published in the
83:. A joint entity to perform these functions was created, with equal representation on its board from both papers. Newsgathering and editorial operations remained completely separate, although located under one roof in different portions of the same building. 132:
chain of newspapers and magazines. In the 1969 letter, Berlin intimated that failure of the law to pass would carry political consequences and hinted that support from Nixon would conversely help the President and his allies. The
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In practice two daily newspapers published in the same city or geographic area combine business operations while maintaining separate—and competitive—news operations.
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papers dissolved JOA in 1966, restored JOA in 1980; subsequently merged in 1999. Surviving paper named
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s joint operating agreement became the first to be terminated on August 27, 1966.
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He reversed himself upon receiving a letter from Richard E. Berlin, CEO of the
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Joint Operating Agreements: The Newspaper Preservation Act and Its Application
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and its conversion to a website only publication on December 31, 2007)
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initially opposed the passage of the act (as had his predecessor,
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Cities with terminated newspaper joint operating agreements
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area. It exempted newspapers from certain provisions of
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United States Congress
Richard Nixon
newspaper
media market
antitrust
Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Classified advertising
agents
cable television
Chattanooga Times
Chattanooga News-Free Press
Richard M. Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson
free market
capitalism
Hearst
Nixon Administration
1972 Presidential Campaign
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit Free Press
Gannett
Knight-Ridder
Detroit News
Media News Group
Gannett
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Las Vegas Sun

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