Different Cycles For News Media Test New Media
Date: 20 March 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Inherent difference in approach to breaking stories by electronic and print media is likely to become more visible as newspapers increasingly link up with television and Internet to extend their brands; issue is particularly acute in business news, where cable television and Web place premium on being fast and first; different approaches can be seen in one instance in which possible merger was highlighted on cable program and given far less prominence in newspaper after more thorough research; photos (M)
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Tribune Company Returns To a Vastly Changed Town
Date: 19 March 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Outlook for Tribune Co to open New York City newspaper discussed in light of planned merger with Times Mirror Co, owner of Long Island newspaper Newsday; city's media industry has changed greatly since Tribune sold Daily News in 1991 (M)
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Russian Chief Sees an End To Resistance By Chechens
Date: 19 March 2000
By Michael R. Gordon
Michael Gordon
Acting Pres Vladimir V Putin assures Russian voters that war in Chechnya is drawing to a close and that some Russian troops will soon be on their way home; Press Ministry demands that rebels leaders in separatist southern region of Chechnya be denied air time on Russian television and radio stations; those commanders' defiant comments in the media would be an unpleasant reminder that a Russian victory is not yet at hand (M)
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San Luis Obispo Journal; Local Newspapers Become the Story
Date: 19 March 2000
By Evelyn Nieves
Evelyn Nieves
Management of San Luis Obispo and Atascadero Gazettes insists that the weeklies are doing fine despite the mass resignation of reporters and editors and the loss of some advertisers in response to papers' policy of not publishing articles that promote gay lifestyle and abortion; the two papers, as well as Pasa Robles Gazette, were started in 1999 by David Weyrich, a local millionaire, who defends policy in front page editorial; photo (M)
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Media Talk; Journalists Among The Online Crowd
Date: 20 March 2000
By Allison Fass
Allison Fass
Middleberg & Associates survey of print journalists finds 73 percent of those responding say they went online at least once a day, up from 48 percent in 1998; finds most popular use was research, displacing e-mail, though both were up from 1998; graph (M)
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Its Voters Have Spoken. Now Meet Iran's Gunmen.
Date: 19 March 2000
By John F. Burns
John Burns
Doctors are wary that Iranian newspaper publisher Saeed Hajjarian, one of reform movement's leaders, will make full recovery after he was critically wounded by would-be assassin in Tehran; photo (M)
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A Bullish Vote On a Media Comeback
Date: 19 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Walt Disney, trying to recover from an extended earnings slump, gets boost when Gordon Crawford, executive and portfolio manager at Capital Research & Management, buys Disney stock; Crawford had sold his company's entire Disney stake in early 1999; he declines comment on purchases (S)
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Siemens-Mannesmann Link Is Set
Date: 20 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Siemens says its auto-parts unit plans partnership with VDO, Mannesmann's auto-parts business; Siemens and Mannesmann's Atecs unit will reportedly hold equal stakes in VDO (S)
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Political Talking Cure
Date: 19 March 2000
William Gayle letter comments on Mike McCurry M
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 19 March 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-21 New President in Taiwan Ends Nationalist Rule Chen Shui-bian, an opposition politician who long advocated Taiwan's independence, was elected its new president, ending more than half a century of Nationalist rule and risking dangerous new tensions with mainland China. 1
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