Growing Audience Is Turning to Established News Media Online
Date: 27 August 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Audience for online news continues to grow as readers, particularly younger ones, increasingly look to Internet for quick dose of news; beneficiaries of growth continue to be largest and best-known national news organizations, especially those with focus on national and international events; largest news audience on Web still gravitates to Yahoo, which is portal to material from other news organizations; graph of top five news sites (M)
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A Reality Check for College Rankings
Date: 27 August 2001
Editorial says criticisms of US News & World's college rankings by Amy Graham, woman who once supervised them, should give some pause to institutions that have been taking cues from rankings for over decade; says fundamental problem with rankings is that they substitute slew of proxies for what really matters, namely, students' own reflections on their experiences and their prospects for rewarding life after graduation (M)
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Iraqi Opposition Ready to Broadcast Satellite TV Program Financed by U.S.
Date: 28 August 2001
By Thom Shanker
Thom Shanker
Iraqi opposition groups will open new front in battle to topple Saddam Hussein by beaming satellite television program financed by US throughout region; program will include news, political profiles, call-in shows and music videos; channel, under logo Liberty TV, will operate from London; official Baghdad news media reports US spy plane was shot down over southern Iraq; Pentagon confirms loss of unmanned drone, which it says could have crashed because of mechanical failure (M)
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Black Journalists' Organization Seeks Solid Financial Footing
Date: 27 August 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Financially ailing National Association of Black Journalists approves compromise plan to create advisory committee dominated by professionals with expertise in finance and management; votes to end all curbs on seeking financing from alcoholic beverage makers, decision made while most of members at business meeting, Orlando, are out to lunch; Tangie Newborn, new executive director, says media-company support for group is dwindling (M)
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Beleaguered Belarus Leader Steps Up Press Crackdown
Date: 28 August 2001
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Belarus government, facing new charges of complicity in killing of leading pro-democracy politician, steps up crackdown on nation's independent press and threatens to have its principal opponent in September presidential election; opposition figures say effort shows Pres Aleksandr Luksshenkjo, in office since 1994, is trying to head off more surprises in what polls suggest is increasingly close election; Lukashenko government has been shaken by accusations that in 1999 government-run death squad kidnapped and killed at least two democratic politicians, Viktor Gonchar and Yuri Zakharenko and one of Gonchar's business associates, Anatoly Krasovsky (M)
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SHAREHOLDERS APPROVE BUYBACK OF STAPLES.COM STOCK
Date: 28 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Staples Inc's shareholders approve plan to buy back shares of Staples.com held by venture capitalists and employees, ignoring opponents who complained that price is too high; investors and employees will receive equivalent of $7 worth of Staples stock for each Staples.com share they own (S)
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RYDER SYSTEM WINS A NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTION CONTRACT
Date: 28 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ryder System receives multiyear contract to manage delivery of Los Angeles Times from printing plants to distribution centers (S)
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CHRYSLER TO INTRODUCE FOUR LOWER-PRICED MINIVANS
Date: 28 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Chrysler unit of DaimlerChrysler will add four lower-priced minivan models by October (S)
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AUSTRALIAN COMPANY ADDS TO ITS U.S. MALL HOLDINGS
Date: 28 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Australia's Westfield Holdings acquires quarter of Rodamco North America for $490 million from Stichting Pensioenfonds, Dutch pension fund, increasing its ownership of shopping malls in US (S)
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PRICE-CUTTING AT BARNEYS NEW YORK LEADS TO WIDER LOSS
Date: 28 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Barneys New York reports loss of $3.86 million in quarter ended Aug 4, compared with loss of $3.59 million year earlier; sales rose 1.1 percent, to $85.1 million (S)
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