P.M. BRIEFING : Bridgeport Papers to Merge
The morning Bridgeport Telegram and afternoon Bridgeport Post will merge into a single morning paper later this year.
The new paper will be called the Bridgeport Post, the newspapers’ publisher, Dudley B. Thomas, announced. “The national trend is to morning newspapers, and our market is following suit,” he said.
Thomas said there will be no reduction in editorial staff when the papers are merged. The newspapers have a combined daily circulation of about 80,000 and a Sunday circulation of more than 90,000. They are the largest owned by Thompson Newspapers Inc., which purchased them in 1988.
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