Newspaper Trend: Stress Local News, Cut National and Foreign Coverage
Date: 08 July 1975
By MARTIN ARNOLD
Martin ARNOLD
Survey of editors of various newspapers throughout US finds that most are concentrating their reptg on local news and people and service articles, while de-emphasizing natl and foreign news; papers are battling rising production costs and find it less expensive to concentrate on local news, saving money by reducing number of reporters outside their home region; editors commenting include Ed Coyle (Missouhan), Ralph Langer (Dayton Journal Herald), Arnold Rosenfeld (Dayton Daily News), Tom Hunter (Wilmington News Journal), Will Jarrett (Dallas Times Herald), Tom J Simmons (Dallas Morning News), J Edward Murray (Detroit Pree Press), Evarts Graham Jr (St Louis Post-Dispatch), George A Killenberg (St Louis Globe-Democrat), Thomas Eastham (San Francisco Examiner), Donald W Gornley (Chicago Daily News), Ralph Otwell (Chicago Sun-Times), and Maxwell McCrohon (Chicago Tribune) (M)