Newspaper Industry Fails To Stem Circulation Drop
Date: 04 May 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Months of effort by nation's newspaper publishers to rein in price increases and to promote their publications aggressively failed to stem industry's long-term circulation decline; latest figures from Audit Bureau of Circulations show average daily circulation down five-tenths of 1 percent, while Sunday circulation dropped by 1 percent, for six months ended March 30; newspapers that showed greatest ability to buck trend were those in competitive markets or those that command national audience, like The New York Times; Times registered 2.2 percent daily circulation increase for total circulation of 1,134,974; Sunday circulation increased 2.3 percent, to 1,687,959; Boston Globe, owned by New York Times, lost 2.4 percent of its Sunday circulation, which declined to 730,420; figures for other newspapers noted (M)
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Media; Why was network television so attracted to the Littleton shootings? In part, it was bafflement.
Date: 03 May 1999
By Lawrie Mifflin
Lawrie Mifflin
Media column explores network television's fascination with shootings in Littleton, Colo; notes three major broadcast networks devoted far more time to massacre, on their regular newscasts and on prime-time news maganzines, than they ever allocated to any similar shooting rampage; photo (M)
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Media Talk; Newspaper Chain to Open Training Center
Date: 03 May 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Thomson Newspapers will open its own journalism school, Reader Inc Editorial Training Center, in Oshkosh, Wis; students, recruited by some of Thomson's 56 newspapers, will be committed to going back to work at those newspapers; aim is to rekindle interest in community journalism (M)
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How Voice of NATO Honed His Delivery
Date: 04 May 1999
By Craig R. Whitney
Craig Whitney
NATO's six-person press information staff, headed by spokesman Jamie Shea, has been bolstered by multinational 'information strategy cell' of about 20 high-powered public officials in effort to hone press briefings, which created confusion at start of NATO's air campaign against Yugoslavia; NATO official says idea is to get message across better (M)
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Washington Memo; A Melding of Extremes at Correspondents Dinner
Date: 03 May 1999
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Annual White House Correspondents Assn Dinner, at which press corps honors President, described; tone of dinner has shifted in recent years from old-style correspondents' affair, when most famous faces belonged to Cabinet members, to one that increasingly displays movie stars and other social glitterati; photo (M)
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After Littleton, Gun Dealers Put On a Low-Profile Show
Date: 03 May 1999
By Paul Zielbauer
Paul Zielbauer
Great Westchester Gun and Knife Show is held in White Plains, NY, with no advertising banners, no promotional brochures and as little media attention as its organizers could manage; photo (M)
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Reporter Chasing Fraudulent Source Finds Methods Under Scrutiny
Date: 03 May 1999
By Benjamin Weiser
Benjamin Weiser
Seymour M Hersh's testimony in criminal trial of Lawrence X Cusack 3d, man accused of fraud in sale of forged documents about Pres John F Kennedy, offers glimpse into how one of nation's most accomplished investigative reporters practices his craft; Hersh admits on cross-examination that he 'romanced' Cusack, even misled him a little, to get exclusive use of purported Kennedy papers for book he was writing; later came to question papers' authenticity and Cusack's credibility, and helped to unravel fraud scheme; photo (M)
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MOLEX TO ACQUIRE CARDELL, A MAKER OF AUTO PARTS
Date: 04 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Molex Inc to buy Cardell Corp for undisclosed price (S)
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FRESH AMERICA TO MERGE WITH FRESHPOINT IN STOCK DEAL
Date: 04 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fresh America Corp to buy Freshpoint Inc for $101 million in stock; will form company called Freshpoint America (S)
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MEDIACOM TO ACQUIRE TRIAX MIDWEST FOR $740 MILLION
Date: 04 May 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mediacom LLC to acquire Triax Midwest Associates LP for $740 million (S)
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