NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING TO LAY OFF 600 WORKERS
Date: 16 April 1998
By Dow Jones
Dow Jones
Newport News Shipbuilding Inc will lay off 600 workes in its commercial and military shipbuilding units; about half the employees are being laid off in connection with discontinuance of commercial shipbuilding operations; rest of layoffs result from nearly simultaneous completion of work on aircraft carriers USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Harry S Truman (S)
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News Corporation Creates a New Unit
Date: 15 April 1998
By Elaine Underwood
Elaine Underwood
News Corp forms worldwide integrated media and marketing division, News Corp One, to offer marketers new ways to affiliate with company's more than 35 advertising-supported businesses; Kayne Lanahan is named to head News Corp One in New York as senior vice president and director (S)
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Bronx to Get TV Coverage All the Time
Date: 15 April 1998
By Lynette Holloway
Lynette Holloway
News 12, which is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings Inc, subsidiary of Cablevision, in about two months will begin broadcasting news reports from Bronx 24 hours a day; photo (M)
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Nigeria's Persecuted Press Fights Back Underground
Date: 15 April 1998
By Howard W. French
Howard French
Nigerian publisher Kola Ilori maneuvers to continue publishing his news magazine, Tell, in face of continual harassemnt and intimidation by military regime; photo; other efforts by persecuted news media also related (S)
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Gershwin (Posthumously), Graham and Roth Are Among Winners of 22 Pulitzer Prizes
Date: 15 April 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
1998 Pulitzer Prizes are announced; Philip Roth wins prize for his novel American Pastoral; Katharine Graham is awarded prize for biography for her book Personal History; special citation is given posthumously to composer George Gershwin on centennial of his birth; New York Times wins three awards; award for foreign reporting is given to Times staff for its coverage of drug corruption in Mexico; Linda Greenhouse wins beat reporting prize for her coverage of Supreme Court; senior book critic Michiko Kakutani wins award for criticism; other winners are Paula Vogel (drama), Charles Wright (poetry), Jared Diamond (general nonfiction), Edward J Larson (history), Stephen P Breen of Asbury Park Press (editorial cartooning), Aaron Jay Kernis (music), Grand Forks Herald (public service), Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of Dayton Daily News (national reporting), Los Angeles Times staff (breaking news reporting), Bernard L Stein of Riverdale Press (editorial writing), Martha Rial of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (spot news photography), Clarence Williams of Los Angeles Times (feature photography), Paul Salopek of Chicago Tribune (explanatory journalism), Thomas French of St Petersburg Times (feature writing), Gary Cohn and Will Englund of Baltimore Sun (investigative reporting) and Mike McAlary of Daily News (commentary); photos (L)
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Publisher Moving To Geocities
Date: 16 April 1998
By Claudia H. Deutsch
Claudia Deutsch
Thomas R Evans, who has held top publishing titles at three magazines owned by Mortimer B Zuckerman, says he will leave to join Internet company Geocities as chief executive; he will succeed David Bohnet, founder, who will continue as chairman; Evans has been president and publisher of US News and World Report and Fast Company magazines as well as president of Atlantic Monthly (S)
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The Pulitzer Prizes
Date: 15 April 1998
Pulitzer Prizes are announced; list includes Philip Roth for novel American Pastoral, Paula Vogel for play How I Learned to Drive and Katharine Graham for autobiography Personal History; The New York Times wins for reports on drug corruption in Mexico, for Linda Greenhouse's reporting on Supreme Court and for Michiko Kakutani's literary criticism; Los Angeles Times wins reporting and feature photography award; Grand Forks Herald wins for public service to North Dakota community ravaged by flooding, blizzard and fire; Mike McAlary of New York Daily News wins for commentary, Bernard L Stein of Riverdale Press for editorial writing and Stephen P Breen of Asbury Park Press for editorial cartooning
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At 82, Still Fighting the Battle of the Sexes
Date: 15 April 1998
By Joyce Wadler
Joyce Wadler
Evelyn Cunningham, 82, will be among five former Pittsburgh Courier reporters who will accept George Polk Career Award for newspaper on April 15; she was reporter for Courier in 1940's and 50's when it was most influential newspaper in black America; it is first time in its 49-year history that award, which is administered by Long Island University, will go to newspaper rather than individual; Cunningham photo (M)
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Acclaim for Outspoken Voice of Riverdale
Date: 16 April 1998
By Jan Hoffman
Jan Hoffman
Article on Riverdale Press co-publisher and editor Bernard L Stein in view of him winning Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing; photo (M)
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CIBER, A COMPUTER CONSULTANT, IN $151 MILLION DEAL
Date: 16 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ciber Inc will acquire Summit Group Inc for stock valued at up to $151 million (S)
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