What year did the Los Angeles newspaper "Harold Examiner" close down and why?

The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner died in 1989. Afternoon papers have been dying for about 30 years, a victim of the changing media landscape. In other words, its news is pretty dated by the time it comes out in the afternoon -- sometimes more than a day. Afternoon papers just can't compete with television. The H-E had the largest circulation of any afternoon paper in the country at one point, but the circulation costs had to be high too.