Journalists Ruled Not Professionals
Date: 06 April 1976
By DAVID E. ROSENBAUM Special to The New York Times
David ROSENBAUM
NLRB on Apr 5 rules that newspaper journalists are not 'professional' employees as defined by Fed law; decision means that reporters, columnists and editors cannot be automatically excluded from collective-bargaining units; NLRB prohibits professional employees from being assigned to bargaining unit with nonprofessionals unless majority of professionals vote to join; case decided by NLRB involved Express-News Corp, publisher of San Antonio Express and News, and Local 172 of ITU, which sought to organize editorial employees at 2 newspapers; bd ruled in favor of union; similar cases involving newspapers in Phila, Wilmington and other cities are now pending before bd; bd chmn Betty Southard Murphy filed dissent (S)
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Schorr to Receive Award By National Headliner Club
Date: 06 April 1976
Natl Headliner Club achievement award to CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr for his rept on CIA (S)
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WABC-TV Wins Appeal on Report on Children's Home on S.I.
Date: 06 April 1976
By MORRIS KAPLAN
Morris KAPLAN
NYS Appellate Div affirms Apr 5 WABC-TV right to show videotape depicting conditions in St Michael's Home; says nothing on tape warrants prior restraint on its broadcast; stays broadcast for 5 days to permit home to file appeal; film shows children being questioned in their rooms by TV reporter John Johnson; case revd (M)
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East 42d St. Robbers Flee With $851,000; Three Robbers on East 42d Street Flee With $851,000
Date: 07 April 1976
By BARBARA CAMPBELL
Barbara CAMPBELL
3 masked men escape with $851,000 in cash on Apr 7 after holding up 2 Wells Fargo guards on their way to deliver money to Citibank branch in NY Daily News bldg; illus (M)
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Westinghouse Broadcasting Set To Reduce News Staff Abroad
Date: 07 April 1976
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
Westinghouse Broadcasting Co is preparing to reduce substantially its news-gathering forces abroad, which now consist of iburs in Eur and Middle East, and part-time correspondents in other major capitals; in Nov co cut back its Washington staff from 20 to 4 full-time workers, with 6 or 7 commentators and specialized reporters working part-time; has relied since then chiefly on AP Audio for coverage of hard news from Washington; AP Audio will now serve as prime source of foreign news for WINS and KFWB; Phila station KYW will receive its basic foreign and natl coverage from ABC Radio Information Network; chmn and pres Donald H McGannon comments (M)
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CRIME BILL BACKERS AGREE TO CHANGES
Date: 07 April 1976
Sens John L McClellan and Roman L Hruska have told 3 liberal critics on Judiciary Com that they are willing to leave in their present form laws against espionage and disclosing classified information contained in US Criminal Code (S)
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Times Unifies Its News and Sunday Departments
Date: 06 April 1976
NY Times names Sunday editor Max Frankel editor of editorial page on Jan 1, succeeding John B Oakes, who is named sr editor (S)
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Issues '76: Liberty
Date: 06 April 1976
Ed on proposed new Fed criminal code; holds code requires close scrutiny because of its many questionable sections that are incompatible with 1st Amendment; holds its harsh provisions could abridge freedom of speech, restrict right of peaceful assembly, and clamp down on right to publish information of public interest
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