At its peak, the H-T had 38 newsroom full-time equivalents (FTEs). News that the Herald-Times newspaper building was going on the auction block didn't exactly land here in Bloomington, Indiana. like a blinding left hook. Home to Indiana University, Bloomington is a college town of 85,000 today, and, according to newspaper formulae used in my day there, the H-T essentially saturated the community.