Closing
The World Journal Tribune never became economically viable, and it ceased publication eight months later, on May 5, 1967. [4] During its short life, the paper never opened a Washington bureau, and did not have any foreign correspondents on its staff, [2] relying instead on the Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service for foreign coverage. [1]
The folding of the WJT left The New York Times , the New York Daily News , and the New York Post as the only daily English-language general circulation newspapers in New York City for many years, when in 1900 there had been fifteen. [5] [6]
One survivor of the demise of the World Journal Tribune was New York magazine, which began as the Sunday supplement for the Herald Tribune and continued after the merger as the supplement for the WJT. After the newspaper folded, the editor of New York, Clay Felker, bought the rights to the title with partners and brought it out as a glossy magazine. [7]
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