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Date: 06 November 2002
By Seth Schiesel
Seth Schiesel
News Corporation reports third-quarter revenue increased 11.8 percent, to $3.8 billion; earnings soared to $162 million, or 12 cents an American depository receipt, about double profit in same quarter 2001 (M)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Alessandra Stanley and David D. Kirkpatrick
Alessandra Stanley
Exit surveys that have for three decades guided live television predictions, declaring candidates' fates before polls even close, fall victim to computer problems, forcing media and public to wait for old-fashioned vote counting; networks had braced for problems with upgraded Voter News Service, consortium of news organizations that conducts surveys, and were already wary of projections in wake of 2000 presidential debacle; CNN and Fox call some races by relying on own polling in certain precincts in ten major states, but many races are too close to call; Voter News Service reports problem in elaborate computer programs intended to weigh and analyze polling data from randomly chosen precincts; system also breaks down as field workers feed in local data (M)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Caryn James
Caryn James
Television networks deliver election results at unaccustomed deliberate pace, because of computer problems at Voter News Service, and also to avoid errors of 2000 (S)
Date: 05 November 2002
By David D. Kirkpatrick
David
Journalists and political analysts are preparing to report results of exceptionally close races with extra dose of uncertainty; last-minute glitches in new computer system are threatening to gum up polling service that helps news organizations tabulate not only projections of election results but demographics and motivations behind them; Voter News Service, consortium of news orgns that customarily surveys votes leaving polls, says it may not know until results are in how effective its new system has been at tallying data it has collected (M)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
New York City's tabloid circulation contest becomes more competitive, as The New York Post's daily circulation further erodes once-commanding lead of The Daily News; Post's daily circulation for six months ended Sept 30 was 590,000, up 10 percent from same period in 2001; News's daily circulation for same period was 715,000, 2.5 percent below year-earlier statistics; weekday circulation of The New York Times, nation's third-largest paper in daily circulation, increased 0.4 percent during period, to 1,113,000; overall circulation of daily newspapers declined 0.3 percent outside New York City; circulation statistics for Sunday newspapers reveal mixed picture (M)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Sarah Lyall
Sarah Lyall
Collapse of court case against Paul Burrell, royal butler accused of stealing hundreds of items belonging to Britain's Princess Diana, has not forestalled disclosure of embarrassing royal secrets; Burrell himself has been fielding offers from British news media, and The Sun has published torrent of revelations said to be based on his 39-page deposition to police (S)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Warren Hoge (NYT)
Warren NYT
Former British spy David Shayler is found guilty of violating Official Secrets Act and is to serve 6 months in jail; sold classified documents that derogatorily depicted British intelligence to new media; photo (S)
Date: 06 November 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
International Steel Group, created by investor Wilbur L Ross Jr, considers buying all or part of Bethlehem Steel; full purchase would almost double International's production capacity; company has 60 days to review operations of Bethlehem, which sought bankruptcy protection (S)
Date: 05 November 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Meredith Corp agrees to buy American Baby and related publications from Primedia for $115 million (S)
Date: 05 November 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway agrees to invest additional $155 million in Lloyd's of London aviation insurance division, Trenwick Group; Buffet invested $212 million in Trenwick one month ago (S)
Date: 05 November 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
MB Financial Bank's holding corporation agrees to buy closely held South Holland Bancorp for about $93.1 million (S)