The Paper That Closed
Closed mid-August 1995 · On stands late August 1995
The Front
Index of August
Newsday's circulation at closing, staff layoffs announced, years the paper had run before Times Mirror's decision — and the size of the book advance a laid-off columnist has already signed for a memoir
The Essay
The Paper Nobody Could Save
Times Mirror closes New York Newsday, examined as the latest and starkest case of print journalism's existential crisis in the city
The Foreign File
London's Fleet Street, Emptied
Furniture on a press district long past its printing-press years
The Feature Well
The Newsroom That Was
A profile of Newsday reporters in the weeks after the closing was announced, several of them already fielding calls from book agents before the last edition ran
The City
Subject: A late-August roundup of the city's remaining tabloid newsrooms, briefly
The Back
Books: Review of a new book on the New York newspaper wars · Art: August's quiet regional gallery season, briefly · Film: A paragraph on the late-night ratings race, folded into a wider account of the industry's economics, occasioned by a guest appearance that gave one host his first ratings win over the other