Rally podcast by Hearst Connecticut Media: Rally

Following careers working in New York City government and law, Steve Isenberg sort of fell into the newspaper business. His first job in the industry was working as assistant to David Laventhol, the publisher of Newsday, then owned by Times Mirror Co. Isenberg eventually became the publisher of Greenwich Time and Stamford Advocate, where he was tasked with improving the papers’ financials. All the while Laventhol, his boss and mentor, was preparing him to help launch a new New York City paper, called New York Newsday. Isenberg worked as its associate publisher when it started and was ultimately named publisher, a position he held through the end of 1995. New York Newsday won three Pulitzer Prizes and gained the nickname “Tabloid in a Tutu.” The newspaper experiment lasted a decade before a new company executive decided to close it, for cost-cutting reasons, in 1995. On the season finale of Rally, Hearst Connecticut Media’s podcast about business leaders facing failure and bouncing back, Isenberg tells the story of the rise and fall of New York Newsday. Business reporter and Rally host Macaela J. Bennett has spent a year collecting these stories of hardship and missteps in people’s careers to share with listeners inspiring examples of overcoming obstacles. Follow Rally_Podcast: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram Email: Rally@CTpost.com Media: “Growing Toward the Sun” by Larry Bryant “Don't Leave Me” by Marcin Gasiewicz A segment of “Room with a view” by Jahzzar is licensed under CC BY 3.0 “Feel Good” by Sergey Chuprina A segment of “Talk to Me” by Jahzzar is licensed under CC BY 3.0 “Absolutely Everything” by Maximiliano Silveira “Aspire” by Ralf Pytlik “Reflecting Emotional Piano and Strings Midtempo” by Jason Garner A segment of “The Oceans Continue to Rise” by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under CC BY 4.0 “Dreams Come True” by Marcin Gasiewicz Links: + “Award-Winning but Unprofitable, New York Newsday to Close Sunday” http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-15/business/fi-24246_1_new-york-newsday + “Taps for N.Y. Newsday Its Final City Edition Set to Roll Tomorrow” http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/taps-n-y-newsday-final-city-edition-set-roll-tomorrow-article-1.701699 + “How New York Newsday Died–And Why It Didn’t Have To” https://fair.org/extra/how-new-york-newsday-died-and-why-it-didnt-have-to/ + “Decade-Old New York Newsday To Cease Publishing Tomorrow” https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/15/nyregion/decade-old-new-york-newsday-to-cease-publishing-tomorrow.html + “Working for Bobby” https://theamericanscholar.org/working-for-bobby/#.WzZsTtJKiUk + “Tribune Agrees to Pay $6.5 Billion In Cash, Stock for Times Mirror” https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB952913445913983801 + “David Laventhol dies at 81; publisher during L.A. Times expansion” http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-david-laventhol-20150409-story.html