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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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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Eschmeyer Signs Mavericks Contract
Date: 27 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Center Evan Eschmeyer, who spent past two seasons with New Jersey Nets, signs as free agent with Dallas Mavericks (S)
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 26 August 2001
Correction of listing in Aug 26 Television section
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NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 27 August 2001
INTERNATIONAL A2-9 U.S. May Lift Sanctions To Bolster Ties With India The Bush administration is moving on a broad front to strengthen relations with India, a nation it views as a neglected and potentially important strategic ally and trading partner in Asia. The most dramatic step the administration will take, officials say, is the almost certain lifting of American economic and military sanctions imposed on India in 1998 for its test of a nuclear weapon. A1 Wobbly Flaw for Missile Shield The missile defense planned by the Bush administration may be least able to destroy warheads from countries that are thought to pose the biggest threat, federal and private experts say. The trouble is that so-called rogue nations, like North Korea, Iran and Iraq, would fire wobbling, rudimentary warheads during an attack, and those turn out to be among the hardest to hit. A1
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The News Isn't So Hot Here, So Let's Try (North) Dakota
Date: 26 August 2001
By Tom Kuntz
Tom Kuntz
Excerpts from debate over changing state's name to Dakota from North Dakota; photo (M)
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MediaTalk; Journalist Who Bridged Print and TV Chooses TV
Date: 27 August 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
ABC News is hiring Tamala Edwards, Time writer and CNN broadcast journalist, as Washington correspondent; photo (M)
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Its Last Client Gone, Agency Is in Limbo
Date: 27 August 2001
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Its Last Client Gone, Agency Is in Limbo The fate of the Focus Agency in Irving, Tex., is being determined after the loss of its last remaining client, Shell Energy Services in Houston
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Executive Changes at Media Firms
Date: 27 August 2001
By Allison Fass
Allison Fass
Deutsch, New York, part of the Partnership unit of the Interpublic Group of Companies, promoted three executives
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