It Often Happens: Bad News Does Beat Out the Rest
Date: 16 July 2000
By Vicki Goldberg
Vicki Goldberg
Vicki Goldberg reviews Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment, on view at Newseum/NY in New York City; photos (M)
Toistetaan sunnuntaina 16. heinäkuuta 2000
16. heinäkuuta 2000 oli sunnuntaina tähtimerkin ♋ alla. Se oli 197 päivä vuodesta. Yhdysvaltain presidentti oli William J. (Bill) Clinton.
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16th of July 2000 News
Uutiset sellaisena kuin ne ilmestyivät New York Timesin etusivulle 16. heinäkuuta 2000
Two New Web Sites Cover Political Races
Date: 17 July 2000
By Rebecca Fairley Raney
Rebecca Raney
SpeakOut.com and Voter.com, two commercial Web sites, are covering the elections and political conventions while maintaining partnerships under contract with the political parties; maintain that their news operations are entirely separate from their political divisions (S)
MEDIA: The Strike That Ate Circulation; In Detroit, Profits Are Up But Readers Have Left
Date: 17 July 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Circulation has fallen by a third at Detroit News and Detroit Free Press as result of strike that is now five years old; Gannett's News and Knight Ridder's Free Press have operated with replacement workers and, eventually, many returning strikers, but a union-led boycott takes its toll; management knows that winning back lost readers will require ending the boycott by settling with the six striking unions and by finding ways to manage newsrooms and mailrooms and printing presses with workers who once cursed each other across picket lines; photo (M)
Editorial Observer; Russia's New President Eyes an Unruly Press
Date: 16 July 2000
By Eleanor Randolph
Eleanor Randolph
Eleanor Randolph Editorial Observer column questions Russian Pres Vladimir Putin's commitment to free press as cornerstone of democracy; concedes owners of Russia's biggest media outlets have not always used their power wisely, but insists that to drive them out of business or into submission is not the answer
Mexican Party Reported to Quash Polls Predicting Its Defeat
Date: 17 July 2000
By Sam Dillon
Sam Dillon
Officials of Mexico's governing Institutional Revolutionary Party reportedly pressured newspaper editors and television producers not to publish results of surveys which showed opposition presidential candidate Vicente Fox winning election over party's candidate Francisco Labastida; some editors were sidelined by newspapers after producing such polls, and others received phone threats; most published polls published by final deadline two weeks ahead of vote showed Labastida ahead; Fox's victory by seven percentage points stunned everyone and has led to debate over whether many respected pollsters erred or whether millions of voters changed minds at last minute (M)
Vodafone to Issue Stock for Airtel Stake
Date: 17 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Vodafone AirTouch will issue as many as 3.2 billion new shares to acquire an additional 43.5 percent of Airtel Movil, mobile-phone company in Spain; already owns 21.7 percent of Airtel (S)
Icann Votes To Add More Domain Names
Date: 17 July 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers votes to increase the number of suffixes at the end of every e-mail address and Web page; one of its working groups has already proposed domain names ranging from '.banc,' '.museum,' '.union,' '.travel,' to '.sex' (S)
Community Newspaper Values Its Web Site
Date: 16 July 2000
White Plains Watch publisher Susan Arterian Chang letter on July 2 article about Westchester news Web sites notes White Plains Watch is proud of its own site (S)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 17 July 2000
Antonio Alejo and more than 1,000 mostly poor Peruvians who were unfairly imprisoned and tortured on charges of terrorism or treason from 1992 to 1995 have been pardoned or absolved of any wrongdoing in past three years, and they are trying to restore tattered lives; their fate was product of chaos that gripped Peru in early 1990's, when Shining Path terrorist group, bent on creating radical Maoist state, was in final throes of bombings and massacres and were threatening or paying off prosecutors and judges to avert imprisonment of their own; they were tried in special antiterrorism courts on trumped-up charges by masked judges and prosecutors after Pres Alberto K Fujimori disbanded Congress and Supreme Court in draconian crackdown in 1992; photos; map (L)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 16 July 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-10 Russian Military Seeks To Increase Arms Sales Russia's military industrial establishment is engaged in a major effort to increase arms sales to Asia, the Middle East and Africa and is expanding its share of the lucrative global arms market. 1