Word: circe
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Indeed, few newspapers are read as closely or taken as seriously as Pravda (circ. 11 million), the Soviet Union's leading daily. (Second in importance is Izvestiya, the government daily, circ. 8.6 million.) The paper is published by the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party and toes the party line, hence the government line, on matters great and small. Pravda means truth, but when facts and ideology collide, ideology prevails. Says Thomas Kolesnichenko, Pravda correspondent in New York: "We try to give people a story that is true, but in terms of a historical perspective, in terms...
...profits into non-energy-related investments like hotels and department stores, which are totally unrelated to U.S. energy needs. Oil provided 95% of company profits in 1979, but earlier this year the firm used some of that money to pay a rumored $35 million for the ailing Philadelphia Bulletin (circ...
...editorial staff members of Le Monde (circ. 500,000), the most influential journal in France, last week elected their next director, Claude Julien, 55. After a tutorial two years under present Director Jacques Fauvet, 66, Julien will take over the paper in 1982, serving as chief editor and publisher, a position of major influence in the Fifth Republic. Founded in 1944 by Hubert Beuve-Méry, who was designated its first director by Charles de Gaulle, Le Monde is required daily reading for French government officials and diplomats around the world. Mixing first-rate reporting with a heavy dose...
When Carll Tucker bought the august Saturday Review in 1977, he described its typical reader as "somebody's aunt." Unable to attract a younger audience of nieces and nephews, Tucker, 28, sold the ailing magazine last week to Robert I. Weingarten, 38, owner of Financial World (circ. 59,000), an investment magazine. The purchase price was not revealed. Says Tucker, who will stay on as editor of Saturday Review (circ. 500,000): "Going at the speed we were going at, we weren't going to get from here to there...
...difficult to characterize Gannett journalism. The firm's home office in Rochester approves budgets, buys certain syndicated features and offers design and editorial assistance. Otherwise, Gannett editors are allowed wide latitude. Most would probably agree with Tom Callinan, managing editor of the Little Falls (Minn.) Daily Transcript (circ. 3,800), when he says: "I stay within my budget, put out a good product and they don't bother...