News Corp. Plans Hundreds of Layoffs at Web Sites
Date: 05 January 2001
By Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair
News Corporation announces plan to lay off several hundred workers from Web sites; jobs will be cut or lost through attrition at New York and Los Angeles offices of FoxNews.com, FoxSports.com and Fox.com site; object of restructuring is to shift production and news-gathering operations back to operating organzations in hope that new arrangement will improve Internet sites through better coordination with television divisions, streamlining effort and providing substantial savings; photo (M)
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He Told Us the News, but He Tells No Tales
Date: 05 January 2001
By Joyce Wadler
Joyce Wadler
Profile of WABC-TV's Eyewitness News anchor Bill Beutel, who is retiring; photo (M)
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Journalists Really Do Have An Agenda; Reporters Closely Follow A.P.'s Daily List of Events
Date: 06 January 2001
By Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges
Associated Press daybook is schedule of daily events in New York City that often determines what gets covered in city and what does not; daybook is compiled to give members of media an agenda for major events taking place each day in city; events can be news conferences by mayor or wacky promotional events that are used to leaven nightly news; all subscribers to AP metro or broadcast wires receive daybook; photos (M)
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The Battle for Czech TV
Date: 05 January 2001
Editorial says Prague's state television station is site of political struggle that underscores not only media's importance in former Communist nations but also dangers of coziness between politicians and press; notes that Czech Parliament is rushing to pass law that would create new television council free of links to political parties; says this would be valuable reform, one that Czech Republic should carry over into other aspects of society
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Reporter and Philadelphia Paper Settle Libel Suit Filed After Firing
Date: 06 January 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Philadelphia Inquirer settles libel lawsuit brought by Ralph Cipriano, reporter who had conflicts with his editors over his coverage of city's Roman Catholic Church; Cipriano, who was fired soon after filing suit in August 1998, charged that he was libeled when Inquirer's top editor, Robert J Rosenthal, questioned his veracity in comments in Washington Post (S)
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Talk About a Bad Press? Would Hysteria Be Closer?
Date: 06 January 2001
Excerpts, often explicity racist, from newspaper article of 1920's writing about jazz; photo (M)
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PARK PLACE SHARES FALL 16% ON NEWS OF WEAKER PROFIT
Date: 05 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Park Place Entertainment, world's largest casino operator, says that, on operating basis, it will break even in fourth quarter because of lower casino winnings in Las Vegas and poor weather in other markets (S)
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AUTOMAKER DESIGNATES CORPORATE MARKETING CHIEF
Date: 06 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motrors Corp names Christopher J Fraleigh head of corporate marketing and advertising (S)
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SULZER MEDICA OF EUROPE ADDING INTRATHERAPEUTICS
Date: 06 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sulzer Medica AG, Europe's biggest maker of orthopedic devices, agrees to pay $145 million in cash for Intratherapeutics of US to move into fast-growing market for peripheral stents (S)
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WINTER STORMS HURT CIRCUIT CITY'S SALES
Date: 06 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Circuit City Group, second-largest electronics chain in US, reports December sales at stores open at least year fell 1 percent (S)
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