Journalism Education Less Focused On the News
Date: 06 May 1996
By Iver Peterson
Iver Peterson
Journalism school graduates are the lowest-paid college-educated workers joining the labor force. They are also increasingly likely to have been trained by people with doctorates, but with little or no experience as reporters or editors. And, perhaps not surprisingly, graduate and undergraduate interest in journalism education is on the wane.
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News Highlights;The Ravages of Rain, Wind, Snow and Fire
Date: 05 May 1996
By John Rather
John Rather
Wave-battered and wind-beaten Long Island pays for jutting seaward, never more than when hurricanes roar up from the tropics. Three hurricanes in the last 20 years have lent resonance to certain names. First came Belle, striking on a falling tide on Aug. 9, 1976, her timing sparing the coast from heavy flooding. Gloria, a potential killer, swept by high and fast on Sept. 27, 1985. She is remembered for knocking down thousands of trees and causing widespread electric failures, some lasting for days. Bob, a milder hurricane, blew in nearly six years later on Aug. 19, 1991, clipping the East End. The unnamed hurricane of 1938 remained unchallenged for sheer ferocity and destructive force. "That was the granddaddy of them all so far," said the meteorologist Scott Reynolds of the National Weather Service in Brookhaven. "Let's keep it that way."
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World News Briefs;Threats Force Transfer Of Tasmanian Suspect
Date: 06 May 1996
AP
The man accused of killing 35 people in Tasmania a week ago was moved from a hospital to a prison today. Hospital workers had received death threats because they were treating him. Martin Bryant, 28, is accused in the April 28 killings that began at the historic ruins of a colonial prison in Port Arthur, 30 miles south of Hobart.
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World News Briefs;Report of Liberia Truce Denied by Militia Chief
Date: 05 May 1996
Reuters
Warring factions in Liberia have agreed on a new truce in a four-week standoff that has forced thousands of frightened civilians to flee their homes, diplomats said today. But the faction leader Charles Taylor, Deputy Chairman on Liberia's ruling Council of State, said he did not know of any agreement and added that the Government could not tolerate lawlessness.
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World News Briefs;18 Killed in Earthquake In Inner Mongolia Region
Date: 06 May 1996
Reuters
An earthquake in Inner Mongolia has killed at least 18 people, and Chinese rescue workers put up more than 10,000 tents to help shelter an estimated 200,000 people affected by the quake, local officials said today. The earthquake on Friday, the worst in the area in years, injured 297 people, 33 of them seriously.
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World News Briefs; Pension Dispute Silences Song of Gondoliers
Date: 06 May 1996
Reuters
Venice's gondoliers, who usually serenade their customers as they steer them through the city's romantic canals, stopped singing today because of a dispute over pensions. For many visitors to Venice, a ride in a gondola is not complete without the soft serenading of the gondolier.
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World News Briefs;Sandstorm Cited in Crash Of Sudan Plane; 53 Dead
Date: 05 May 1996
AP
A Sudanese passenger plane was attempting an emergency landing during a sandstorm when it crashed in a field, killing all 53 people aboard, officials said today. The private Federal Airlines jet was en route to Khartoum when it crashed at 10 P.M. on Friday.
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