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...last year -- advertising is down, as it is generally throughout the newspaper industry. The New York Times Co. newspaper group reported a 52% drop in profits, to $18.6 million, for the first quarter of this year. The Times is also keeping an eye on six-year-old New York Newsday, which is trying to fashion a niche in Manhattan as a thinking person's tabloid. If Newsday can outlast the other tabs, both of which are perennial money losers, it could give the Times a taste of serious competition...
...after suffering from hypothermia, is now in stable condition. When news of his health reached the mother's neighbors, several of them clasped their chests and gave thanks to God. "The baby will never want for someone to look out for him," one of the women told New York Newsday. "He is blessed." It was as though surviving the maw of a trash chute would forever protect him from his own neighborhood...
This combination of controversy and unmeasurable circulation (down from 1.1 million before the strike) drove away advertisers, most of whom increased their exposure in the competing tabloids, the scandal-minded Post and the more pious New York Newsday, a city-oriented version of the dominant paper on suburban Long Island. While many plan to return, now that the News has union blessing, some advertisers have cut budgets in a slumping economy, and others are concerned about when, or if, the News can rebound to pre-strike levels. Its rivals, which raided columnists and the syndicated supplement Parade, have upped their...
...fact, many parents seem relieved to have the issue taken out of their hands. A Gallup poll for the daily New York Newsday found that 54% of parents with children in the New York City public schools approve of the condom plan. There is little opposition from students. "This isn't telling us to be sexually active," argues Mike Hurdle, 17, a senior at Queens' Andrew Jackson High School. "It's just saying, if you are, you should be protected...
News coverage outside the pool arrangement, a common practice in past conflicts, is essentially impossible in the gulf, and the Pentagon proposes that pool members have military escorts "at all times." These pools inevitably will be controlled to some extent by field commanders in Saudi Arabia, where, according to Newsday Washington bureau chief Gaylord Shaw, two reporters have been threatened with exclusion because they asked "rude" questions. Such a ban would violate Pentagon rules, but getting a reversal might require time-consuming appeals back...