Guild Vice President Thomas J. Murphy indicated that the Daily News had been singled out as the union's first target "because there we have had more aggravation, more agitation, more issues, more disputes and more anti-unionism from management".
The Brooklyn Eagle saw circulation grow from 50,000 to 390,000 before shrinking to 154,000 before it was hit with a separate deliverers' strike on June 27, 1963.
[10] Leonard Andrews, employed by a credit card company, the Uni-Serv Corporation, approached the company's customers about advertising in a publication he created called The New York Standard, the largest of several alternative papers published during the strike, reaching a peak circulation of more than 400,000 and appearing for 67 issues.
The New York Post was able to resume printing on March 4, 1963, by withdrawing from the Publishers Association: they would be bound by whatever settlement the other papers made, and would have no further voice in negotiating it.
[8][13] New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr., and labor negotiator Theodore W. Kheel were eventually able to forge an agreement to end the strike after several attempts.
Kheel noted that the contracts for all ten newspaper unions would expire on the same date in 1965, emphasizing the importance of addressing the festering labor issues.
[8] After the strike was ended, both the Times and Herald Tribune doubled their price to 10 cents, one of the factors that had cut readership.
The Mirror's management blamed the closure on the effects of the strike aggravating existing problems at the paper.