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Pulitzer planned to increase Lerner's combined circulation of about 300,000 to compete in the
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Sunstates, an investment firm led by Clyde Engle, was in the business of buying moribund companies for tricky financial operations. Under
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Pulitzer's stable, Lerner was left to founder. Pulitzer closed and merged many of its editions, until only 15 were left. Circulation had plummeted from 300,000 in 1985 to 100,000 by 1992. In 1992, Pulitzer was on the brink of shutting down the Lerner papers but, at the last
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Publishing Co., the Lincoln Belmont Publishing Co., the Times Home Newspapers (J. L. Johnson Publishing Co.) and the Neighbor Press of Chicago.
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Newspapers and an account executive for Times Home Newspapers from 1959 to 1962. He became executive vice president of Lerner Home Newspapers in 1962 and publisher in 1969.
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1978:"Ava Ehrlich is news-planning manager for KSDK-Channel 5. She was previously ... a reporter and news editor for KMOX Radio and a reporter and editor for Lerner Newspapers."
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Washington University in St. Louis journalism faculty
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1885:Lerner and Labor: A Decomposing Relationship
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1897:Progress Illinois, 2010 Terkel Award Winner
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2259:Carolyn Walkup profile
1962:June 18, 2016, at the
1957:Chicago Jewish History
1944:July 12, 2009, at the
1807:Richard Battin profile
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1614:. SEC Info. 1994-12-31
1593:. SEC Info. 1998-07-21
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808:Times Home Newspapers,
667:Beginning as separate
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1278:"Chicago Ed" Schwartz
1172:James Clifford Hughes
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681:News and Star Budget
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2237:About Will Sullivan
1702:"Saved by the Sell"
1375:"Lerner Newspapers"
1202:Richard C. Lindberg
1128:Ruth Duskin Feldman
562:Ravenswood Citizen,
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1164:Sheldon Hoffenberg
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1452:The Cleburne News
1424:Forgotten Chicago
1268:Rosemary Sazanoff
1212:Valerie Anne Long
1187:Robert C. Koehler
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951:, DuPage County,
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