MediaTalk; News Channel's New Look Works, in a Way
Date: 13 August 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Audience for CNN Headline News does not increase much in its first week with supposedly hipper look and younger editorial emphasis, but ratings do show some modest improvement; critics complain of information-filled screen, moving graphics and pop-infused back ground music; photo (S)
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BOLDFACE NAMES
Date: 14 August 2001
By James Barron With Glenn Collins
James With
All-star performance of Chekhov's The Seagull in Central Park is delayed and finally cancelled because of heavy rain; Kurt Vonnegut and his wife Jill Krementz are treated to screening of new movie In the Bedroom, adapted from short story by Andre Dubus, who was student of Vonnegut's in 1960's; Lynne Russell comments on her departure from CNN after 19-year career as anchor of Headline News; photos (M)
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Black Journalists' Group Faces Financial Shortfalls
Date: 13 August 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
National Association of Black Journalists faces financial shortfall because of declining convention turnouts, management missteps and stock market declines; lost between $200,000 and $500,000 in 2000, during which it spent $2 million; financial reversal comes at time when newspaper and broadcast industries and media foundations are forming their own initiatives to broaden diversity in profession and cutting back on their sponsorships of annual conventions of groups representing minority journalists (M)
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Be My Spy -- or Else
Date: 14 August 2001
By Irving R. Levine
Irving Levine
Op-Ed article by Irving R Levine on experience of John E Tobin Jr, American Fulbright scholar jailed for six months in Russia on charges of being spy and for drug possession, who says Russians tried to recruit him as spy; describes efforts of Russians to recruit him while working in Russia as foreign correspondent (M)
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The Case of a Jailed Journalist
Date: 14 August 2001
Editorial holds that jailing of 33-year-old journalist Vanessa Leggett by federal judge in Texas for failure to hand over research notes to grand jury related to high-profile murder case about which she planned to write book is 'brazen assault' on First Amendment and free press (M)
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TRINITY INDUSTRIES AGREES TO ACQUIRE THRALL CAR
Date: 14 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Trinity Industries, nation's leading maker of railroad cars, acquires Thrall Car Manufacturing Co for at least $364.1 million in cash and stock (S)
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TOM JAMES OFFERS TO BUY OUT HARTMARX SHAREHOLDERS
Date: 14 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hartmarx Corp receives $4.50-a-share cash offer from Tom James Co for shares it does not already own; offer is worth about $128 million (S)
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BE AEROSPACE AGREES TO BUY M&M, A FASTENER CONCERN
Date: 14 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
BE Aerospace Inc acquires M&M Aerospace Hardware Inc for at least $177 million in cash and stock to add aerospace fasteners to its line of products (S)
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Existing-Home Prices Increase 6.4%
Date: 14 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Prices of single-family homes rose 6.4 percent in the second quarter of the year
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Farm Income Expected to Be Most in 5 Years
Date: 14 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Net farm income will be the highest in five years in 2001, as livestock and dairy prices strengthen and federal aid continues, the government said
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