Newspapers: One Down in Houston

For years, the death of the Houston Press has been merely a matter of time. By last week the time had come. For a reported $4,100,000, the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain sold its weakest link to Houston's other afternoon daily, the Chronicle.

The Press had suffered from a double trouble — and either would have been enough to kill it. The first problem was the paper itself. Once the feistiest daily in town, with an insatiable appetite for spirited crusades, the Press seemed to lose heart as rapidly as it lost readers. It lost touch with its community until, in the end,...

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