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Date: 28 February 2000
By Barnaby J. Feder
Barnaby Feder
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and Yahoo Inc are discussing alliance that could include stock investments in each other's operations; are interested in joining forces to counter merger of America Online and Time Warner (M)
Date: 28 February 2000
By Christian Berthelsen
Christian Berthelsen
World-beating scoop by TheSmokingGun.com revealed that Rick Rockwell, groom on television program Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire? was once the subject of a restraining order; this says something about fledgling Internet's place in new order of American journalism, but it is also classic tale of basic gumshoe reporting (M)
Date: 28 February 2000
By Mark Landler With Andrew Ross Sorkin
Mark With
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation agrees to make $1 billion investment in Singapore Telecommunications, enabling it to sweeten offer for Hong Kong's dominant telephone company, Cable & Wireless HKT Ltd (M)
Date: 29 February 2000
By Deborah Sontag
Deborah Sontag
Stormy debate erupts in Israel after newspaper Haaretz reports late pop diva Ofra Haza, popular among Israeli elite and working class as well as internationally, had died of complications from AIDS; centers on whether paper crudely violated her privacy and journalistic ethics, or whether it had done public service by refusing to treat AIDS as illness whose name cannot be spoken (M)
Date: 28 February 2000
By Felicity Barringer and Alex Kuczynski
Felicity Barringer
Newspapers and magazines are losing many seasoned journalists to Internet; journalists from trade publications and recent journalism school graduates are also being lured to dot-coms; even journalists familiar with unproven financial strategies of many sites are taking the leap; they are attracted by prospect of making great deal of money and excitement of being part of Internet revolution; Peter Gumbel, departing Los Angeles bureau chief of Dow Jones newspaper, is preparing to be editor of Business.com, enterprise whose journalists are mostly yet to be hired and whose editorial product is yet to be shaped; in some cases, people have joined sites after writing about them; some defectors do return; Danny O'Neil has returned to Seattle Times, saying people on Internet are not interested in long articles; photos (M)
Date: 29 February 2000
By Marjorie Connelly
Marjorie Connelly
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds battle for Republican presidential nomination remains tight in New York State and that most voters might still change their minds; finds 46 percent of voters support Gov George W Bush and 36 percent Sen John McCain, with Alan Keyes preferred by 3 percent; 15 percent remains undecided (S)
Date: 29 February 2000
By Marjorie Connelly
Marjorie Connelly
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds that half of all adults in New York State disagree with verdict acquitting four New York City police officers in shooting death of Amadou Diallo (M)
Date: 28 February 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Four leading Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, with limited resources and staggering media challenge to get messages out in 17 states holding primaries in nine days, are engaged in feverish hopscotch of nation--targeting television markets in certain states, bypassing others and relying on 'free media' supplied by press to make cases to larger extent than before; sheer volume of races has caused fundamental shift in way campaigns are communicating with voters; photo (M)
Date: 28 February 2000
By Milt Freudenheim
Milt Freudenheim
Healtheon/WebMD hopes to transform nation's unruly, fragmented health system into digitally disciplined online universe; vision is to link patients, doctors and insurers online, promoting self-help for patients while saving time and money by eliminating paperwork and insurance company phone centers; Jeffrey T Arnold, chief executive, says company now has assets in place to execute its vision, after dizzying array of mergers and alliances announced in last year; analysts say it may take years for Healtheon to accomplish daunting task it has undertaken; company's major stakeholders include Microsoft, DuPont and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp; photos; chart; graph (M)
Date: 29 February 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sonic Foundry Inc plans to buy STV Communications Inc for $66 million in stock (S)