It's an interesting comment on the fall of formerly overpowering newspaper empires that neither of the most-common Hearst names, Examiner and American, makes the list.
And Hearst is one of the few family dynasties, together with the Sulzbergers, still very much alive, after printer's ink in the blood of the third, fourth and fifth generations of the Bancrofts (Dow Jones/WSJ), Chandlers (L.A. Times-Mirror), Whitneys (N.Y. Herald-Tribune), DeYoungs (S.F. Chronicle), Taylors (Boston Globe), Metcalfs (Providence Journal), Pulliams (Indianapolis Star & Ariz. Republic) and many other newspaper families had diluted so much, or the heirs feuded so deeply, that they sold out or closed their empires. |