Harry Truman's triumphant grin as he hoists the "Dewey Defeats Truman" edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune.

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Harry Truman's triumphant grin as he hoists the "Dewey Beats Truman" edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune.

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In publishing, Tribune's leading daily newspapers include the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, Sun Sentinel (South Florida), Orlando Sentinel, Hartford Courant, The Morning Call and Daily Press.

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The Tribune Company owns the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and eight other daily newspapers, as well as the Chicago Cubs and more than 20 television stations.

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The New York Times (-5.5%), Los Angeles Times (-8.7%), Washington Post (-6.4%) New York Daily News (-5.5%), Chicago Tribune (-5.2%) and Houston Chronicle (-10.5%) were among the papers that saw more than 5 percent of their circulations vanish.

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The Los Angeles Times saw average daily circulation fall 4.2% to 815, 723, while the Chicago Tribune slipped 2.1% to 566, 827 and Newsday of Melville, N.

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That's probably an unsettling thought for news junkies who need their daily fix of "serious" newspapers like The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune or The Washington Post.

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