Відтворення понеділок, 7 серпня 2000 р.

Giving Online Audiences News They Want

Date: 07 August 2000

By Jim Rutenberg

Jim Rutenberg

New Web sites offer users television-style news reports in digestible bits that can be pieced together into personalized newscasts; are based on assumptions that consumers want information and entertainment on demand and that high-speed Internet connections, offered by broadband services, can finally give it to them; Yahoo, Zatso.com and Jagfn.com offer services, but the most ambitious is FeedRoom, which Jonathan Klein is setting up with $35 million in venture capital; photo (M)

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Compressed Data; A News Service Caters To Nonprofit Groups

Date: 07 August 2000

By Matt Richtel

Matt Richtel

AScribe will disseminate online news releases of universities, nonprofit organizations and foundations for $10 or $20, depending on subscription plan; news release services used by corporate America charge several hundred dollars to distribute a release (S)

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News Is Carefully Timed To Steal G.O.P.'s Thunder

Date: 08 August 2000

By Peter Marks

Peter Marks

Democratic officials say announcement of Vice Pres Al Gore's selection of Sen Joseph I Lieberman as vice presidential runing mate was timed to quash postconvention Republican thunder with pre-emptory saturation of news media, as well as to make big splash before upcoming Democratic National Convention and to draw contrasts between ways in which Gore and Republican rival Gov George W Bush picked running mates (M)

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Lewinsky Interview Did Have Its Costs

Date: 07 August 2000

By Jim Rutenberg

Jim Rutenberg

New Yorker magazine reports that Monica Lewinsky gave her interview to Barbara Walters on ABC in Nov 1998 after network paid Theodore Olson, a Washington lawyer and friend of Kenneth W Starr, whose permission was needed for any Lewinsky interviews under terms of her immunity agreement; David Westin, ABC News president, says arrangement did not violate network's policy against paying for interviews; photo (S)

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ABC to Correct Report That Challenged Benefits of Organic Foods

Date: 08 August 2000

By Jim Rutenberg

Jim Rutenberg

ABC News says a John Stossel report on its 20/20 program challenging assumed benefits of organic food was partly based on research that does not exist; says David Fitzpatrick, the producer of the segment, was responsible for error, not Stossel (S)

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CNN.com Restores Jerusalem to Israel

Date: 07 August 2000

By Jim Rutenberg

Jim Rutenberg

Jerusalem is once again identified as an Israeli city on weather home page of CNN.com; it has stood on its own since February, prompting flood of protests (S)

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A Forum for Media Feedback and Back Talk

Date: 07 August 2000

By Felicity Barringer

Felicity Barringer

Jim Romenesko's MediaNews.org is a Web site where journalists can argue, announce their new jobs, toast their friends and denounce their enemies; Eugene Kennedy gets a lot of supportive comment for an article of his on the site that contends that Mike Barnicle, who lost his job as columnist at Boston Globe in 1998, was victim of shifting standards and deeply mixed messages from the Globe's editor, Matthew V Storin; photos (M)

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Vetoing Press Freedom in Iran

Date: 08 August 2000

Editorial says decision by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme religious leader, to quash Parliament's attempt to revise restrictive press law dims hopes for increased personal and political freedom; says that with less than year remaining in Pres Khatami's four-year term, his efforts to change system appear to be dangerously stalled by a clerical leadership that refuses to respect the will of the Iranian people

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IRAN LEADER BARS A BILL RESTORING FREEDOM OF PRESS

Date: 07 August 2000

By Nazila Fathi

Nazila Fathi

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme religious leader, quashes cherished goal of Pres Mohammad Khatami and reformists by ordering Parliament to scrap bill aimed at restoring free press; takes exceptional action of circumventing normal institutional checks on legislative power; surprise move stuns reformers who had hoped to use newly won strength in Parliament to revive once vigorous liberal press; proposed law to deregulate press was centerpiece of Khatami's package for new Parliament, and was meant to counter conservative crackdown of last six months, when courts closed nearly every reformist newspaper and jailed editors and intellectuals; photo (M)

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DOW CHEMICAL TO EXPAND U.S. MANUFACTURING

Date: 08 August 2000

By Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News

Dow Chemical Co will spend more than $325 million to build a plant on US Gulf Coast and expand plant in La Porte, Tex, to increase its production of polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, a chemical used in a number of industrial products (S)

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