On the Block
Newspaper headquarters have been prominent landmarks in American cities. But as publishers struggle with losses of readers and advertising, a number of papers have abandoned their historic homes. Sam Zell, the new owner of the Tribune Co., says he is considering the sale of the Tribune Tower in Chicago and Times Mirror Square in Los Angeles.
Power of a Tower
The neo-Gothic Tribune Tower is one of the landmarks of North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Completed in 1925, the building is known for its flying buttresses and for the historic stones embedded in its street-level facade, including fragments from the Great Wall of China and the Dublin post office.
L.A. Story
The home of the Los Angeles Times is a complex of five structures in downtown Los Angeles, including a 1935 building with an Art Deco lobby.
Newspaper Row
Once New York newspapers had their own block: Park Row in lower Manhattan, known as Newspaper Row. From left, the skyscrapers are the New York World Building , the New York Tribune Building, the New York Times Building, and the Potter Building.
Squared
The New York Times was the first paper to abandon Newspaper Row and venture into the northern expansion of Manhattan in the early 20th century. Here is a wide-shot view of Times Square looking south on Broadway in the early 1900's, The Times Tower, now One Times Square, is at center.
Gray Lady
While other newspapers cut back, the New York Times Co. has erected a new tower just a couple of blocks south of this building, its old home on 43rd Street.
Daily Planet
The News Building, built in 1929, was designed by Raymond Hood, one of the architests of the Tribune Tower. Since 1995, it is no longer the home of the Daily News of New York, but it will always be seen as where Superman worked as reporter Clark Kent.
The Midtown Journal?
The Wall Street Journal will leave its home in the financial district next year and move to to News Corp.'s headquarters in midtown Manhattan.
