Metro Business Briefing; SUNDAY EDITOR NAMED
Date: 16 March 2001
By Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair
New York Daily News appoints Frank Lalli Sunday editor; Lalli is former editor in chief of George magazine and top editor at Money magazine (S)
Replaying Friday, March 16, 2001
The March 16, 2001 was a Friday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 74 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, March 16, 2026, 97 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, March 16, 2027, in 267 days. You have lived for 9,228 days, or about 221,489 hours, or about 13,289,358 minutes, or about 797,361,480 seconds.
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16th of March 2001 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on March 16, 2001
China Backs Away From Initial Denial In School Explosion
Date: 16 March 2001
By Craig S. Smith
Craig Smith
Prime Min Zhu Rongji makes highly unusual nationally televised apology to people of China for deadly schoolhouse explosion in rural Jiangxi Province, and softens earlier denials that children at school were making fireworks; says he has ordered high-level investigation; government's attempts to contain conflicting accounts of blast were undermined by citizens' rapidly spreading access to Internet and other information channels and by increasingly self-assertive press; explosion killed 42 people, 38 of them children aged 9 to 11 years old; local government had announced that deranged suicide bomber was responsible for blast; bereaved parents and surviving students unanimously rejected this, saying children were forced to make fireworks at school; attempted media blackout only fueled speculation that there was coverup reaching into central government; photo (M)
China Struggles to Ride Herd on Ever More Errant Media
Date: 17 March 2001
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
Elisabeth Rosenthal
China is struggling to control its shadow media, growing number of smaller newspapers and semi-independent reporters that operates mostly outside official state media and is becoming far more vexing foe than foreign press; new media has ability to respond far more quickly to lure of good story than to pressure from country's propaganda department, and has grown exponentially along with China's Internet; is viewed with ambivalence by officials in Beijing, who praise it for uncovering local corruption that would otherwise go unpunished, while finding its unruly existence deeply troubling; imprisonment of career journalist Gao Qinrong for exposing fraudulent multimillion-dollar irrigation scheme discussed; photo (M)
The Sting That Has India Writhing
Date: 16 March 2001
By Celia W. Dugger
Celia Dugger
Corruption scandal that has prompted resignation of India's powerful defense minister, George Fernandes, and many others in government was exposed by undercover sting operation of nine-month-old Internet magazine, tehelka.com; 'spy cam' movies shot on shoestring by two journalists at magazine show politicians' hands reaching out for stacks of money; photo (M)
New York Times Among Winners of Polk Awards for Journalism
Date: 16 March 2001
By Edward Wong
Edward Wong
George Polk Awards for reporting for 2000 are awarded in 12 categories; John B Oakes, former New York Times editor, receives career award and series How Race Is Lived in America wins special award (M)
FRUIT OF THE LOOM FILES A PLAN FOR REORGANIZATION
Date: 16 March 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Fruit of the Loom Ltd files reorganization plan to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (S)
BAXTER SAYS IT WILL DOUBLE CAPACITY AT SWISS PLANT
Date: 16 March 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Baxter International says it will double manufacturing capacity at plant in Neuchatel, Switzerland, that makes its hemophilia drug (S)
PRIMEDIA, MAGAZINE PUBLISHER, PLANNING TO CUT 160 JOBS
Date: 17 March 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Primedia Inc will eliminate about 160 jobs to reduce operating expenses (S)
INTUIT SAYS ITS PROFITS WILL FALL SHORT OF FORECASTS
Date: 16 March 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Intuit, maker of personal-finance software, says revenue in its third quarter and 2001 fiscal year will miss forecasts because of sluggish sales of its QuickBooks software and slower Internet advertising; Intuit's shares drop $12.44, or 29 percent, to $29.81 (S)
ZALE PLANS REDUCTION IN ITS STORE-OPENING PROGRAM
Date: 17 March 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Zale Corp will open 40 new stores in 2002, half of previous plan, in face of slower jewelry sales (S)