P.M. BRIEFING : 1 Scranton Paper Buys the Other
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SCRANTON, Pa. — Scranton’s oldest newspaper, the Scrantonian Tribune, was purchased by its longtime rival, the Scranton Times, and ceased publication today.
Employees arriving for work at the newspaper were told that today’s edition would be the last. In the Tribune newsroom, someone scrawled “30”--the symbol traditionally used by reporters at the end of a story--on a locker.
MediaOne Inc., which bought the Scrantonian Publishing Co. from the Goodman family of Scranton in 1987, announced the newspaper’s demise in a brief release.
“The deteriorating economic conditions affecting the Northeast no longer made it economically viable to publish a second newspaper in the Scranton market,” MediaOne said.
The Scranton Times, which published an afternoon newspaper for many years, launched a morning edition, the Morning Times, in 1988 to compete directly with the Tribune.
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