Judge Affirms Raise for Daily News Drivers
Date: 13 July 1999
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Federal Judge Thomas P Griesa upholds labor arbitrator's decision to award retroactive wages to members of drivers' union at Daily News, move that could eventually cost newspaper tens of millions of dollars; arbitrator's ruling determined that members of Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union should receive 16.9 percent wage increase retroactive to Jan 1, 1997, to bring their pay in line with wages of drivers at New York Times (M)
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Media Talk; News Media's Eye Turns More to Children
Date: 12 July 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Study conducted by Prof Dale Kunkel for child advocacy group finds coverage of children has become more of priority at major national newspapers and television news networks; also finds that when children appear in news reports, it is less often as victims or perpetrators of crimes than was case five years ago, and more often in articles related to health, safety and cultural issues; Kunkel found that in 1998, there was 37 percent increase in number of newspaper articles about children and no change in amount of television time devoted to children by major television networks (M)
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Big Turnout for Minority Journalists
Date: 12 July 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
More than 5,000 minority journalists attend second national convention of Unity: Journalists of Color Inc, to debate what news organizations must do to put world in focus; assumption is that major news organizations will have continuing trouble keeping their audiences; convention includes job fair at which scores of news organizations interview minority candidates; number of Hispanic, Native American, Asian and black newspaper journalists has risen to only 11.55 percent from 10.49 percent five years ago; Census Bureau estimates that 28 percent of country's population belongs to one of those four minority groups; photo (M)
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Media Talk; Time Editor Is Critical of Brill's Content
Date: 12 July 1999
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Norman Pearlstine, editor in chief of Time Inc, writes blistering letter to Steven Brill, whose magazine, Brill's Content, featured article which dismantled Time article on corporate welfare; Pearlstine notes that Brill has professional relationship with corporate executive criticized in Time's article; Brill says he is undisturbed by Pearlstine's accusation; photo (M)
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The Quill Holds the Power: Moscow's Media Wars
Date: 13 July 1999
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Russian media is expected to play crucial role in choosing who will be likely successor to Pres Boris Yeltsin; as national election campaigns begin everyone with power is jockeying for control of newspapers; feuds between oligarchs and officials that are frequently played out in press discussed (M)
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Iran Protests Spread to 18 Cities; Police Crack Down at University
Date: 13 July 1999
By Elaine Sciolino
Elaine Sciolino
Most widespread and sustained protests since Iran's Islamic revolution two decades ago spreads throughout country; security police and vigilante supporters move to crush pro-democracy student demonstrators outside Teheran University; demonstrations reported in 18 cities and towns, including major cosmopolitan cities of Tabriz, Shiraz and Isfahan, and more traditional cities like Meshed and Yazd; reflect deep struggle over course of Islamic revolution; students are impatient with slow pace of reforms promised by Pres Mohammad Khatami; are not calling for change in Islamic system of government, but for quickening of movement toward democracy and rule of law; diehard Islamic revolutionaries, some in positions of power, believe country's moves toward democracy are betrayal of revolutionary purism; demonstrations follow passage by Parliament of tough new press law and closure of Salam, popular left-leaning Islamic newspaper; map; photos (M)
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INVESTORS PROPOSE $119.3 MILLION BUYOUT OF HAPPY KIDS
Date: 13 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Happy Kids Inc, designer of children's apparel, receives $11.50-a-share buyout offer from HIG Capital LLC proposing to take company private; deal is valued at $119.3 million (S)
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GLOBAL INDUSTRIAL ACCEPTS $300 MILLION BUYOUT OFFER
Date: 13 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Austria's RHI AG acquires Global Industrial Technologies Inc for $300 million, topping bid by WHX Corp, which already holds 10 percent stake in Global Industrial; RHI agrees to pay $13 a share and assume $200 million of debt; Global rejected WHX's unsolicited bid of $11.50 a share in May (S)
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FIFTH THIRD BANCORP OF OHIO ACQUIRES A BANK IN INDIANA
Date: 13 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fifth Third Bancorp of Ohio agrees to buy Peoples Bank Corp of Indianapolis for $228 million in stock (S)
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Magic Names Davis As an Assistant
Date: 12 July 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Orlando Magic names Johnny Davis as assistant coach (S)
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