At CBS, the Lines Between News and Entertainment Grow Fuzzier
Date: 26 June 2000
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Julie Chen, newscaster on CBS News program The Early Show, will host weekly prime-time interview show based on developments in new reality series Big Brother, further blurring lines between entertainment and news; will also provide voice of Big Brother on that show; Early Show is at center of CBS strategy to exploit success of Survivor series and hoped-for success of Big Brother; CBS officials defend link between shows; photo (M)
Full Article
Changes at Fox Studio End Pax Hollywood
Date: 26 June 2000
By Rick Lyman
Rick Lyman
Bill Mechanic's unexpected resignation as head of 20th Century Fox movie studio ends period of relative calm in revolving-door world of top studio executives; Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp owns Fox, reportedly is upset with dark tone and poor performance of studio's recent films; photos (M)
Full Article
Maps of Anything a Journalist Could Want
Date: 26 June 2000
By Dylan Loeb McClain
Dylan McClain
Associated Press plans to market to journalists a Web-based program designed to let them create in minutes sophisticated, data-rich maps; program was developed by Environmental Systems Research Institute; photo (M)
Full Article
An Electronic Newsletter Rattles And Amuses Chicago's Start-Ups
Date: 26 June 2000
By David Barboza
David Barboza
Ron May's May Report, newsletter on Chicago-area dot.coms, has become one of most influential high-tech publications in Midwest; newsletter, e-mailed free to some 15,000 subscribers and posted on Web site, is odd mixture of news, gossip, job listings and e-mail from readers and personal and philosophical musings from May; many executives charge May with shoddy journalism, holding he publishing rumors that then filter into mainstream media; May defends practices; photos (M)
Full Article
The Perfect Celebrity Interview
Date: 25 June 2000
By John B. Kenney
John
Satirical article offers boilerplate celebrity interview, in light of a German newspaper's recent dismissal of a journalist for fabricating intimate interviews with Hollywood stars (M)
Full Article
Iran Closes Another Paper Of Reform
Date: 26 June 2000
By Susan Sachs
Susan Sachs
Iranian clerical court closes Bayan, another of country's dwindling stock of liberal newspapers in new challenge to reformers who promised to use dominance in Parliament to repeal restrictive press laws; newspaper was run by left-wing cleric, who recently denounced judiciary (M)
Full Article
Havas in Talks To Acquire Eidos
Date: 26 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Vivendi's Havas Interactive unit and other companies reportedly are in talks to acquire British video game maker Eidos (M)
Full Article
Intel Introduces Faster Celeron Processors for Low-Cost PC's
Date: 26 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Intel Corp offers faster versions of its Celeron processor for low-cost computers; again plays catch-up with new Duron process from Advanced Micro Devices (S)
Full Article
Kodak to Buy Stake in Online Photofinisher
Date: 26 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Eastman-Kodak will buy stake in Snapfish.com, which provides free film developing and printing, storing and sharing of pictures on line; reaches accords with nine online photofinishers, including Snapfish, to use Kodak's laboratories and technicians to print photos; photofinishers will have links to Kodak's Web site to put thumbnail photos on Internet for customers to use when ordering prints (M)
Full Article
Dick Tracy's Cellular Swatch Watch
Date: 26 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Swatch Group plans to make Dick Tray's two-way wrist radio a reality when it introduces Swatch phone watch in 2001; Samsung Electronics has already begun selling phone watch on Internet in South Korea; Motorola has developed version with Timex; analysts are skeptical about consumer demand; photo (M)
Full Article