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Information Today
December 2000 |
News Industry Group Endorses NewsML Standard The news industry's technical standards body has formally ratified version 1.0 of its NewsML standard for the management of multimedia news and announced that it's ready for production use...   |
Information Today
November 13, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Tasini Case In September 1999, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, in New York, reversed a lower-court decision and ruled that it's copyright infringement for a publisher to put a freelancer's work online or reuse or resell it without explicit permission... |
Information Today
November 6, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Reed Elsevier, Thomson Negotiate Two-Step Deal to Buy Harcourt General Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will buy U.S. rival Harcourt General, Inc. for $4.5 billion, and then will sell the college textbook division and other assets---including a large part of the corporate and professional division---to Canadian publishing rival The Thomson Corp... |
Information Today
November 6, 2000
Barbara Quint |
About.com Acquired by Primedia: Sin or Synergy? The speed of the acquisition surprised both industry followers and staff members at About.com. The merger of a traditional publisher with a dot-com business marks another example of the blending of print and online in the Net economy... |
Salon.com
November 27, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
Is Napster hurting record sales? No, say the numbers. Business is looking good, even if the Backstreet Boys don't reclaim their rightful world supremacy... |
Salon.com
March 20, 2000
Stephen Lemons |
No gays or abortions allowed in my papers! Right-wing Catholic David Weyrich prints all the news that fits his agenda. |
Salon.com
November 21, 2000
Stephen Bender |
Oh God, you devil Black Entertainment Television has put sleazy televangelist Robert Tilton back on the air. Is BET giving people what they want, or taking advantage of the faithful? |
Wired
December 2000
Frank Rose |
Vivendi's High Wireless Act CEO Jean-Marie Messier's deals with Vodafone and Seagram were a star turn on the European stage. As information becomes truly portable, a global media company paired with continent-wide distribution may prove an unbeatable combination.... |
Salon.com
November 15, 2000
Anthony Mariani |
Betting the Farmclub Why is MTV's Matt Pinfield shilling for the shamelessly corporate music show "Farmclub.com"? Can you say "synergy"? |
Salon.com
November 15, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
Fox guarding the henhouse By hiring George Bush's cousin to run a crucial part of its election coverage, the right-wing Fox Network hits a new low in conflict of interest... |
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