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The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 was an Act of the United States Congress, signed by President Richard Nixon, that authorized the formation of joint operating agreements among separate competing newspaper operations within the same market area. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. The act was designed to exempt newspaper from antitrust laws to allow the survival of multiple daily newspapers in a given urban market in the face of declining circulation. This exemption stemmed from the fact that the alternative is usually for at least one of the newspapers, generally the one published in the evening, to cease operations altogether.

In practice two daily newspapers published in the same city or geographic area combine business operations while maintaining separate — and competitive — news operations. A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint.

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The first joint operating agreement was between Albuquerque Tribune (then the New Mexico State Tribune) and the Albuquerque Journal in Albuquerque, New Mexico, signed on February 20, 1933. The Albuquerque Tribune was an afternoon Newspaper in Albuquerque New Mexico, founded in 1922 by Carlton Cole Magee as Magee's Independent The Albuquerque Journal is the largest Newspaper in the state of New Mexico. New Mexico ( is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. Their agreement became typical of the type — both papers were printed on the same presses at different times of day. Classified advertising sales were consolidated, as were distribution agents. Classified advertising is a form of Advertising which is particularly common in Newspapers, online and other Periodicals, e A joint entity to perform these functions was created, with equal representation on its board from both papers. Newsgathering and editorial operations remained completely separate, although located under one roof in different portions of the same building.

Arrangements similar to this allowed most medium-sized U.S. cities, and some of the larger ones as well, to have two daily newspapers until fairly recently. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The number of joint operating agreements, as well as the number of evening-published daily newspapers, has declined considerably in recent years, due to the ongoing consolidation of the newspaper industry as a whole, and the decline in readership and interest in evening newspapers in particular, which many observers have attributed to television and the internet, of which the former seems to be magnified by the presence of several 24-hour-a-day news operations on cable television. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks There have been 28 Joint Operating Agreements to date.

Cities with newspaper joint operating agreements

Cities with joint operating agreements that terminated

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