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Farewell to the Albuquerque Tribune

9:55 PM, February 24, 2008

Saturday was the Albuquerque Tribune’s last day. E.W. Scripps Co. determined the market could no longer support an afternoon paper and couldn’t find a buyer. The paper’s circulation in January had dwindled to 9,600 from 42,000 in the late ’80s.

The Trib long had a fine reputation as a visual paper. Here’s a slideshow with photos and words from Tribune photographers and editors. Go poke around the Trib’s site and read the remembrances, some of which I’ve linked below.

Incidentally, the guy at right in the 1994 page above is Tribune Managing Editor Neal Pattison, now executive editor at The Herald in Everett, Wash., and a former president of the Society for News Design. (And, full disclosure, the guy on the left is Tribune City Editor Michael Arrieta-Walden, who is now my boss.)

» Mike Davis: We set out to challenge readers and ourselves with the best pictures possible [Albuquerque Tribune]

» Mark Holm: Our photos hold up a mirror to the world and share the responsibility of reporting the news [Albuquerque Tribune]

» Eileen Welsome, Albuquerque Tribune made history with ‘The Plutonium Experiment’ [Albuquerque Tribune]

» Neal Pattison: Take a piece of my heart [Everett Herald]

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Perhaps we could see some actual pages? So typical of editors to consider content as a slide show of, albeit very well excuted, photography and text. As if these elements just floated out there in some 6th mediatized dimension of abstract grandeur. One has to make these elements work on a printed page before they become a newspaper, let alone one that one would describe as 'visual'.

Posted by: Anonynous at February 25, 2008 11:57 AM

Seriously. If this paper was so great, then let's see some examples of RECENT wonder. It sounds like -- to me, at least -- that this paper is like the Boulder Camera: a paper once glorified by photographers that lost to complacency.

Posted by: Howard at February 26, 2008 3:14 PM

Looks like it wide open for the Albuquerque Journal to rule the printed world. It's too bad that someone couldn't keep the online version alive.

Posted by: Scott R at March 16, 2008 10:49 AM

Looks like it wide open for the Albuquerque Journal to rule the printed world. It's too bad that someone couldn't keep the online version alive.

Posted by: Scott R at March 16, 2008 10:56 AM

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