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Date: 18 January 1999
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Page 2 of The Daily News in New York, which formerly included brief news articles, has been transformed into column listing happenings around town; it is brainchild of Harold Evans, editorial director of The News, and written by Sharon King; Daily News staff complainsgrumbles about change; photo (S)
Date: 19 January 1999
By Allen R. Myerson and Felicity Barringer
Allen Myerson
Market Place column on A G Belo Corp; says investors have soured on company as ad sales fall at its flagship paper, The Dallas Morning News; stock has fallen to less than $20 a share from $28; total advertising volume dropped 2.3 percent in 1988, and classified advertising--most profitable advertising newspapers sell--led decline; graph (M)
Date: 18 January 1999
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Belarus Govt of Pres Aleksandr G Lukashenko is using ingenious array of methods to muzzle free-speaking journalists, from beatings to financial pressure, to extent that independent press seldom speaks above whisper; watchdog groups charge Govt with systematically suppressing press freedoms that nation's Constitution supposedly guarantee; accuse it of seeking since 1994 to control independent press with clear aim of driving such outlets out of business; map (M)
Date: 18 January 1999
By Dylan Loeb McClain
Dylan McClain
Two professors at Columbia University are working on prototype system that would enable journalists on assignment, and others, to download information from Internet and provide information about their surroundings; gear would include goggles, portable computer and hand-held computer, battery pack, wireless radio network and radio modem, and differential global positioning satellite system; photo of student demonstrating proposed mobile journalist work station (M)
Date: 19 January 1999
By Erik Eckholm
Erik Eckholm
China's powerful Department of Propaganda is engaged in quiet crackdown on liberal intellectuals, journalists and publications; has sent stern warnings to some magazines and newspapers that strayed too far from prescribed line, forced some editors and writers out of jobs and halted distribution of several books that delve into political alternatives or embarrassing episodes in history of Communist rule; campaign reflects leadership's concern for stability as it confronts rising unemployment and protests by workers and farmers; may also reflect concern over dissent related to upcoming 10th anniversary of violent pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and 50th anniversary of founding of People's Republic (M)
Date: 19 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sema Group PLC, Europe's second-largest computer services company, forms alliance with Broadvision Inc, Internet software company in Redwood City, Calif, to offer systems to telecommunications companies that will allow customers to pay bills and buy services through the Internet (S)
Date: 19 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gambro AB will layoff 1,000 employees worldwide, including at least 450 in US, as part of reorganization (S)
Date: 19 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Winsloew Furniture chairman, Earl W Powell, is leading $205 million management buyout of company (S)
Date: 19 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Officemax Inc agrees to run test program in six cities to sell computers and computer-related products made solely by IBM (S)
Date: 19 January 1999
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Merrill Lynch & Co hires Dante Roscini, managing director in European equity capital markets at Goldman, Sachs & Co, to serve in similar role in its own operations (S)