Media Talk; 'World News Tonight' Gets New Producer
Date: 24 April 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Paul A Slavin, newly named executive producer of ABC News's World News Tonight, comments on plans to expand audience; photo (M)
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Deciding Which Image Best Captured Day's Events
Date: 24 April 2000
By Melody Petersen
Melody Petersen
Newspaper editors around country are faced with decision about which photographs best capture events of day regarding Elan Gonzalez's removal from home in Miami and reunion with father; one photo shows federal agent with assault rifle, seemingly pointed toward frightened Elian, in closet in house of Miami relatives; second photo, taken hours later, shows smiling Elian reunited with father; most major papers give more prominent display to photo of armed federal agent (M)
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: A Firm Grip on Mexico's Dial; New-Generation Executive Controls Top Broadcaster
Date: 25 April 2000
By Julia Preston
Julia Preston
Article on Mexico's Grupo Televisa, world's biggest Spanish-language broadcast conglomerate; profiles on Emilio Azcarraga Jean, who is chairman, president and undisputed leader of Televisa, three years after his father, Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, who died in 1997; says Azcarraga has declared political independence for network's news shows, which under his father had been pro-government; graphs; photos (M)
Newspaper in Sea of Outrage Over Coverage of Elian Case
Date: 24 April 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Miami Herald is wrestling with biggest and most emotional local news event since Mariel boatlift from Cuba in 1980; photos (M)
Republicans Take Raid Rage To TV, and Turn Up Volume
Date: 24 April 2000
By Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer
Republican politicians flock to Sunday interview programs to keep up their attacks on Justice Dept's predawn seizure of Elian Gonzalez in Miami; relatively few elected Democrats speak up, and those who do offer some regrets at tactics used to get boy; overnight poll by CNN and Gallup shows 57 percent of public approves federal action, and 37 percent disapproves; only 40 percent feel government 'used too much force' (M)
Iran Reformers Feeling Pressed By Hard-Liners
Date: 25 April 2000
By Susan Sachs
Susan Sachs
Reformers in Iran, two months after their triumph in parliamentary elections, have come under fierce pressure from powerful Islamic conservatives; hard-liners have jailed writers and annulled some election results; Tehran courts have ordered eight daily and four weekly newspapers to stop publishing; banned newspapers that supported Pres Mohammad Khatami, whose calls for reform of judiciary and for open political debate have won him broad public support, but also fierce enemies in clerical establishment; photo (M)
LOSS FOR TOKYO PHONE COMPANY
Date: 25 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tokyo-based cellular phone company Hikari Tsushin Inc reports operating loss of 12.9 billion yen ($123.6 million) in six months ended Feb 29; graph (S)
PHILIPPINE AIR STAKE ON BLOCK
Date: 25 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lufthansa of Germany is in talks to buy controlling stake held by Filipino-Chinese investor Lucio Tan in Philippines Airlines Inc; Tan says he will seek about $800 million for stake, which is at least 70 percent; photo (S)
CANADIAN ENERGY COMPANY TO BE SOLD
Date: 25 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Buffalo-based Natural Fuel Gas Co acquires Tri Link Resources Inc for about 340 million Canadian dollars ($230 million) in cash and assumed debt (S)
American Histories: Chasing Dreams And Nightmares; QUALCOMM PURCHASES A 10% HOLDING IN NETZERO
Date: 25 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Qualcomm Inc acquires 10 percent stake in free Internet service NetZero Inc worth about $143.8 million (S)