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Time Warner has also promised analysts it will save $300 million by consolidating the two companies and exploiting other "revenue opportunities." Almost all the initial pain will be suffered by Turner's gang in Atlanta, where 1,000 layoffs are expected. The company plans to apply a sharper pencil to its capital expenditures in all divisions, demanding higher returns...
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is chairman of the Carter Center in Atlanta, which promotes peace, democracy and health around the world...
...great worry, according to Bill Kovach, a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor who heads the Nieman Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is that "newspapers are trying to save money in the newsrooms, but they are undercutting the quality of their news reports. It's taking the life right out of them." The San Francisco Examiner, for instance, still runs foreign news, but without a single overseas correspondent on staff. Under instructions from parent company Knight-Ridder to boost its margins from 16% to 18%, the Miami Herald will cut 300 jobs by the end of this year. Once considered a competitor...
...quality has improved dramatically over the years, with recent investigative reports on air bags, for instance--as its publisher, Thomas Curley, puts it, "we've had breadth; now we're trying to add depth"--USA Today is also seen as a bad influence on many big-city newsrooms. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, for example, now bans front-page stories that jump to another page, which means major news events must be covered in a paltry 150 words or so. Many papers have shifted to civic, or public, journalism, an increasingly popular but controversial editorial policy in which newspapers attempt...
DIED. MARJORIE SHOSTAK, 51, anthropologist who wrote about the !Kung San tribe in Africa's Kalahari Desert; of breast cancer; in Atlanta. Shostak lived with the tribe and mastered its difficult clicking language...