The Financial Times, One of Britain's Top Papers, Plans Staff Cuts and Computerization
Date: 16 July 1975
By BERNARD WEINRAUB Special to The New York Times
Bernard Special
London Financial Times will reduce its staff by 1/3 and computerize production in move that is viewed with broad interest in Brit newspaper indus; 9 nationally distributed dailies and 7 Sunday newspapers, as well as regional papers, are troubled by rising costs of newsprint, declining ad, overstaffing, poor mgt, steeply climbing wages and costs as well as inability to exploit computer technology for production; Times chief exec Alan Hare says paper's plan is most radical and imaginative in GB newspaper indus; other financially troubled newspapers include Observer, Daily Express, Evening News, Times and Guardian; Sunday Times says that with introduction of photocomposing number of newspaper employes could be reduced by 10,000; Financial Times says that its computer technology would enable it to operate with fewer than 2/3 of its 1,396 employes; Times finance dir Michael Gorman comments; Joseph Wade, asst gen sec of Natl Graphical Assn, says introduction of new technologies should not lead to dismissals (M)
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Hey, Scoop, Distract That Fireman a Minute So I Can Interview the Hysterical Lady
Date: 15 July 1975
By Clancy Sigal
Clancy Sigal
Clancy Sigal article scores manner and extent to which media covered July 11 fire in Squibb bldg (M)
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May Craig, Feisty Capital Writer, Dies
Date: 16 July 1975
By MURRAY ILLSON
Murray ILLSON
illus of Johnson with news woman May Craig in '66
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BOYCOTT IS ENDING FOR SEOUL PAPER; Renewal of Advertising Is Expected by Leading Daily
Date: 16 July 1975
Advertisers appear to be ending 7-mo boycott of South Korean newspaper Dong-a Ilbo that had reptdly been inspired by Govt; newspaper's sources rept that business reprs told them that they would now advertise because paper had returned to fold of natl unity; advertisers will reptdly also resume buying commercials on Radio Dong-a Ilbo; charges have circulated during past 7 mos that Govt of Pres Park Chung Hee inspired boycott as means of trying to halt publication of news of opposition activities or other material critical of it; Govt has denied charges; S Korean press is being prohibited from criticizing Govt under new emergency decree issued 2 mos ago; over last several mos 130 reporters and other employes have been dismissed or indefinitely suspended from their jobs, and they contend they were removed by paper so that it might strike compromise with Govt; 2 newsmen are in jail on charges of having violated emergency decree banning acts that are considered detrimental to natl unity; newspaper, during 7 mos, reptdly lost about $4-million in ad revenues (S)
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Bill Calls on Agencies To Hold Open Meetings
Date: 15 July 1975
NJ Sen on July 14 passes Open Public Meetings Act of 1974; Sen Matthew Feldman hails legis; bill sponsor is Byron M Baer; 1 of strongest sections in bill gives any citizen power to file suit to invalidate govt action taken during meeting that violates law; individual public officials could face fines of up to $500 for repeated violations; bill guards privacy and confidential matters by listing 9 topics that governing bodies can continue to discuss in private (S)
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FOUNDATION HELPS JOURNALISM STUDY
Date: 16 July 1975
trustees of Scripps Howard Foundation authorize scholarships and cash grants of more than $200,000 on July 15 in field of journalism; foundation pres Matt Meyer says record high number of 132 students would have part of their coll expenses paid in '75-'76 through scholarship aid while 60 colls and univs would receive grants of $1,000 each; trustees also authorize continuance of awards in journalism-graphic arts at Rochester Inst of Tech, and special projects at Amer Press Inst's Columbia Univ Seminars, Inter-Amer Press Assn Student Exch Fund and ABC (a Better Chance), program supporting black students in colls and preparatory schools (S)
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London Journalist Barred From India as 'Undesirable'
Date: 15 July 1975
Indian Govt on July 14 bars Kevin Raferty, London Financial Times correspondent, from entering country as 'undesirable'; Raferty becomes 1st journalist to be kept from entering country under state of emergency declared June 26; Lewis M Simons, Washington Post correspondent, was expelled on July 1 reptdly for story he wrote before emergency decree; Brit consul Adrian Beamish says Govt gave no reason for action against Raferty (S)
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Soviet Union Publicizing the Mission
Date: 15 July 1975
By JAMES F. CLARITY Special to The New York Times
James CLARITY
Soviet news media will provide live coverage and commentary on launching of Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft; have given massive publicity to Apollo-Soyuz project; Soviet space officials discuss Apollo-Soyuz project at 2 1/2-hr news conf, Moscow; Soviet Foreign Min press spokesman Vsevolod N Sofinsky comments (M)
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Federal Election Agency Yields To Pressure to Open Meetings
Date: 16 July 1975
Fed Election Comm says all future business meetings will be open to public and press shortly after Sen Mike Mansfield threatens to amend law that created comm if its members persisted in holding secret sessions; others protesting comm's secret sessions include Reporters Com for a Free Press, Common Cause, and Sigma Delta Chi, newspaper society; comm also adopts code of ethics that prohibits members and employes from engaging in any kind of partisan pol activity (M)
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Mississippi Editor Slain
Date: 15 July 1975
Frank Harris, arts editor of Jackson Daily News, is found dead in his apt on July 14 (S)
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