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The ''Los Angeles Herald Examiner'' was a major Los Angeles daily newspaper, published Monday through Friday in the afternoon and in the morning on Saturdays and Sundays. It was part of the Hearst syndicate. The afternoon ''Herald-Express'' and the morning ''Examiner'', both of which had been publishing in the city since the turn of the 20th century, merged in 1962. For a few years after this merger, the ''Herald Examiner'' claimed the largest afternoon-newspaper circulation in the country. It published its last edition on November 2, 1989.〔(Judy Pasternak and Thomas B. Rosenstiel, "Herald-Examiner Will Halt Publishing Today," ''Los Angeles Times,'' November 2, 1989 )〕 ==Early years== William Randolph Hearst founded the ''Los Angeles Examiner'' in 1903, in order to assist his campaign for the presidential nomination on the Democratic ticket, complement his ''San Francisco Examiner'', and provide a union-friendly answer to the ''Los Angeles Times''. At its peak in 1960, the ''Examiner'' had a circulation of 381,037. It attracted the top newspapermen and women of the day. The ''Examiner'' flourished in the 1940s under the leadership of City Editor James H. Richardson, who led his reporters to emphasize crime and Hollywood scandal coverage. The ''Herald Examiner'' was the result of a merger with the ''Los Angeles Herald-Express'' in 1962. And the ''Herald-Express'' was the result of a merger between the ''Los Angeles Evening Express'' and ''Evening Herald'' in 1931. The ''Herald-Express'' was also Hearst-owned and excelled in tabloid journalism under City Editor Agness Underwood, a veteran crime reporter for the ''Los Angeles Record'' before moving to the ''Herald-Express'' first as a reporter and later its city editor. The ''Examiner'', while founded as a pro-labor newspaper, moved to the far right over the decades. It was pro-law enforcement and was vehemently anti-Japanese during World War II. Its editorials openly praised the mass deportation of Mexicans, including U.S. citizens, in the early 1930s, and was hostile to liberal movements and labor strikes during the Depression. Its coverage of the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles during World War II also was particularly harsh on the Mexican-American community. Much of its conservative rhetoric was minimized when Richardson retired in 1957. Underwood remained on staff following the merger in an upper management position, leaving the day-to-day operations to younger editors.〔 The Hearst Corporation decided to make the new ''Herald Examiner'' an afternoon paper, leaving the morning field to the ''Los Angeles Times''. But readers’ tastes and demographics were changing. Afternoon newspaper readership was declining. Following the merger between the ''Herald-Express'' and ''Examiner'', readership of the morning ''Los Angeles Times'' soared to 757,000 weekday readers and more than 1 million on Sunday. The ''Herald Examiner’s'' circulation dropped from a high of 730,000 in mid-1960s to 350,000 in 1977. By the time the ''Herald Examiner'' folded in 1989 its circulation was 238,000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Los Angeles Herald-Examiner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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