The April 14, 1998 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 103 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 28 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 86 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, April 14, 2027, in 278 days. You have lived for 10,313 days, or about 247,522 hours, or about 14,851,372 minutes, or about 891,082,320 seconds.
Date: 15 April 1998
By Elaine Underwood
Elaine Underwood
News Corp forms worldwide integrated media and marketing division, News Corp One, to offer marketers new ways to affiliate with company's more than 35 advertising-supported businesses; Kayne Lanahan is named to head News Corp One in New York as senior vice president and director (S)
Date: 15 April 1998
By Lynette Holloway
Lynette Holloway
News 12, which is owned by Rainbow Media Holdings Inc, subsidiary of Cablevision, in about two months will begin broadcasting news reports from Bronx 24 hours a day; photo (M)
Date: 15 April 1998
By Howard W. French
Howard French
Nigerian publisher Kola Ilori maneuvers to continue publishing his news magazine, Tell, in face of continual harassemnt and intimidation by military regime; photo; other efforts by persecuted news media also related (S)
Date: 15 April 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
1998 Pulitzer Prizes are announced; Philip Roth wins prize for his novel American Pastoral; Katharine Graham is awarded prize for biography for her book Personal History; special citation is given posthumously to composer George Gershwin on centennial of his birth; New York Times wins three awards; award for foreign reporting is given to Times staff for its coverage of drug corruption in Mexico; Linda Greenhouse wins beat reporting prize for her coverage of Supreme Court; senior book critic Michiko Kakutani wins award for criticism; other winners are Paula Vogel (drama), Charles Wright (poetry), Jared Diamond (general nonfiction), Edward J Larson (history), Stephen P Breen of Asbury Park Press (editorial cartooning), Aaron Jay Kernis (music), Grand Forks Herald (public service), Russell Carollo and Jeff Nesmith of Dayton Daily News (national reporting), Los Angeles Times staff (breaking news reporting), Bernard L Stein of Riverdale Press (editorial writing), Martha Rial of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (spot news photography), Clarence Williams of Los Angeles Times (feature photography), Paul Salopek of Chicago Tribune (explanatory journalism), Thomas French of St Petersburg Times (feature writing), Gary Cohn and Will Englund of Baltimore Sun (investigative reporting) and Mike McAlary of Daily News (commentary); photos (L)
Date: 15 April 1998
Pulitzer Prizes are announced; list includes Philip Roth for novel American Pastoral, Paula Vogel for play How I Learned to Drive and Katharine Graham for autobiography Personal History; The New York Times wins for reports on drug corruption in Mexico, for Linda Greenhouse's reporting on Supreme Court and for Michiko Kakutani's literary criticism; Los Angeles Times wins reporting and feature photography award; Grand Forks Herald wins for public service to North Dakota community ravaged by flooding, blizzard and fire; Mike McAlary of New York Daily News wins for commentary, Bernard L Stein of Riverdale Press for editorial writing and Stephen P Breen of Asbury Park Press for editorial cartooning
Date: 15 April 1998
By Joyce Wadler
Joyce Wadler
Evelyn Cunningham, 82, will be among five former Pittsburgh Courier reporters who will accept George Polk Career Award for newspaper on April 15; she was reporter for Courier in 1940's and 50's when it was most influential newspaper in black America; it is first time in its 49-year history that award, which is administered by Long Island University, will go to newspaper rather than individual; Cunningham photo (M)
Date: 14 April 1998
By Michael R. Gordon
Michael Gordon
Human rights activists, Russian press and some of Moscow's leading politicians accuse Government of Pres Boris Yeltsin of engaging in clumsy power play by annulling victory of populist Andrei Klimentyev, who won race for Mayor of Nizhny Novogorod in election that was embarrassment for advocates of market reform; Klimentyev has since been dragged to jail to face corruption charges; town is highly touted bastion of reform and hometown of Sergei Kiriyenko, designated Prime Minister, and of Boris Nemtsov, top Kremlin aide; map; photo (M)
Date: 14 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
John J McLaine resigns as president and chief executive operating officer of Excel Communications Inc; Kenny A Troutt, chairman and chief executive, will reassume president's position (S)
Date: 14 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Paragon Health Network Inc will acquire Mariner Health Group Inc for about $581 million in stock, plus some assumed debt (S)
Date: 14 April 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bowater Inc agrees to buy South Korean newsprint mill from Halla Pulp & Paper Co for $175 million (S)