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2nd of October 1994 News
Notícies tal com van aparèixer a la portada del New York Times el 2 d’octubre de 1994
A New Press Role: Solving Problems
Date: 03 October 1994
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
At more than a dozen news organizations across the country, journalists are experimenting with coverage aimed not only at providing accounts of events but also at provoking people to get involved in public issues. Often called public or civic journalism, the movement is so young that some of its proponents say they are still defining it. But some editors who are experimenting with public journalism say that instead of emphasizing conflict, they want news coverage to spur people to find solutions to political and community problems.
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The Dawn of SimNews
Date: 02 October 1994
By Max Frankel
Max Frankel
All was not lost on that dark summer day when baseball stopped, because overnight the strike gave birth to a novel journalism. At a dozen imaginative newspapers across America, the editors sent computers onto the field and let them pretend to play a full slate of major-league games each day. They overcame dull reality with a new, fantastic kind of news: fiction. Well, Virginia, almost new.
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Journal; Judge Ito's All-Star Vaudeville
Date: 02 October 1994
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
The verdict is already in on week one of the alleged trial of the century: It was a bomb. Jury selection, untelevised and unremarkable, yielded no news, and desperate tabloid investigations into the private life and new hairdo of the prosecutor, Marcia Clark, failed to find a pulse. So the media circus (that is, reporters reporting on reporters) became the story, a video hall of mirrors leading nowhere.
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French Dailies Struggling in an Uncertain Market
Date: 03 October 1994
By Alan Riding
Alan Riding
Having the first issue of his redesigned morning newspaper distributed at 2 P.M. last Monday was not what Serge July, the editor of Liberation, had in mind when he set out to overhaul the left-of-center tabloid. But a day later, with the technical problems ironed out, Mr. July was able to turn his attention to his main goal: capturing more readers and advertising.
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TRIBECA MILESTONES: HOW IT GREW
Date: 02 October 1994
1776-1830: Residential community; landfills move shoreline from Greenwich Street to West Street. 1830-1880: Conversion to warehouses and lofts around Washington Market, the city's main food market. MID-1960'S: Market moves to Hunts Point; Robert Moses demolishes some warehouses for renewal plans. 1974-75: Opening of Independence Plaza, three apartment towers. 1976: Zoning change permits residential loft conversions; artists arrive. 1979: Riverrun Cafe opens in a revamped warehouse, followed by a parade of upscale restaurants. 1983: Borough of Manhattan Community College and Washington Market Park open. 1988: Public School 234 opens. 1991-92: Four historic districts named, covering most of TriBeCa. NOW: City Planning considering altering zoning from residential/manufacturing to residential/commercial.
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Electronic Newspaper
Date: 03 October 1994
The Gainesville Sun, a Florida newspaper owned by The New York Times Company, has agreed to publish an electronic edition in cooperation with the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. Students will prepare the electronic paper, which will offer versions of articles to be published in The Sun the next day. The service, known as SUN.ONE, will have advertising and will be offered at no charge for 30 minutes a day. Unlimited usage can be purchased for flat fees starting at $6.66 a month. Customers must have a personal computer and modem.
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The Simpson Case by the Numbers
Date: 02 October 1994
Ronald L. Goldman was stabbed more than 20 times, and Nicole Brown Simpson had one wound that was five and a half inches deep. Ninety five million households watched the car chase live. There were 14 sites where blood was found on the Ford Bronco. Statistics swirl around the O.J. Simpson case like cameras around Mr. Simpson's lawyer, Robert L. Shapiro. Everthing about the case is big, including the jury selection process that began last week - 304 people were given a 75-page questionnaire to fill out. Judge Lance A. Ito and the attorneys will pore over the answers, looking for disqualifying biases.
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'Small Town' Gets Its Own Paper
Date: 02 October 1994
By Marvine Howe
Marvine Howe
Growing up in Oklahoma, Carl Glassman always dreamed of creating a small-town newspaper. "Then last March, it suddenly dawned on me that I'm living in a little town," he said, "and my dream became an obsession." His small town is TriBeCa, a chunk of lower Manhattan that in 1970 had a resident population of 370. Now a fashionable, family-oriented enclave of about 9,000, the Triangle Below Canal has its own schools, a little league, a gazebo for summer concerts, bookstores, dry cleaners, florists and real-estate offices.
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Court Blocks Newspapers' Suit Against Rockland Prosecutors
Date: 02 October 1994
By Ronald Sullivan
Ronald Sullivan
A Federal appeals court ruled Friday that two newspapers could not sue the Rockland County District Attorney for First Amendment damages over an investigation into charges that they let an advertiser influence what articles they published. The ruling helped rekindle a long-simmering feud between the newspapers and the prosecutors. The charges against the newspaper were made by Linda Winikow, a former State Senator who was dismissed last year as a vice president of Orange and Rockland Utilities after pleading guilty to fraud and embezzlement charges.
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Heinz's India Deal
Date: 03 October 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The H. J. Heinz Company said last week that it had completed the acquisition of the family product division of Bombay-based Glaxo India Ltd. for about $70 million. The division has annual sales of about $50 million, with products like Complan adult nutrition drinks, Glucon beverage mixes, Farex baby foods, Glacto infant formula and Nycil talcum powders.
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