New York Times "The arc of this paper was one of expanding ambitions all the way up to 1995, and shrinking ever since then," former Newsday editor
Howard Schneider tells
Richard Perez-Pena. "When the Tribune Company came [in 2000], there was hope that the ambition could return, that they would invest and we could start a new chapter and do new things with TV and the Web. But their philosophy, the changing times, the circulation scandal -- it all conspired against that." ||
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