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DIED. NANCY WOODHULL, 52, journalistic champion of women; of cancer; in Pittsford, New York. Beginning as a newspaper reporter, she rose through the ranks to become president of Gannett News Service, a founding editor of USA Today and editor in chief of Time Warner's Southern Progress Corp., where she supervised five magazines. While shattering the glass ceiling herself, she never stopped being a forceful advocate of equality for women and minorities in the media...
...from the only case in which major resources and talent are being lavished on cable channels watched by almost no one. espnews, a 24-hour sports-news channel launched in November, is available in only about 1 million cable homes. Its chief competitor, CNN/SI (which is owned by Time Warner, also the parent of TIME), has managed to corral just 4 million. The Fox News Channel and MSNBC, two network-backed news channels launched last year to compete with CNN, have passed the 20 million and 30 million marks, respectively. Yet their average audience, according to preliminary ratings leaked...
...originality, daring and audacity." In November it nabbed five Genies (Canada's Oscar equivalent), including one for director David Cronenberg. It also earned a chilling blast of invective from Ted Turner, boss of bosses of the film's U.S. distributor, Fine Line Features (and vice chairman of Time Warner, parent of TIME). Now Crash--from J.G. Ballard's notorious 1973 novel, and with an NC-17 warning sticker affixed--finally opens in the country that invented car culture...
...book is targeted to "people who are interested in serious non-fiction," said Ida Veltri, a publicity manager at Warner Books, Harbury's publisher...
...book is published by Warner Books and will be sold in bookstores nationwide starting March 27, Veltri said...