17 april 2001 was een dinsdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♈. Het was de 106e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 25 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op vrijdag 17 april 2026, 52 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zaterdag 17 april 2027, in 312 dagen. Je hebt 9.183 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 220.412 uur, of ongeveer 13.224.757 minuten, of ongeveer 793.485.420 seconden.
Date: 17 April 2001
By Jayson Blair
Jayson Blair
Mortimer B Zuckerman, publisher of The Daily News, says he will bid to take over The New York Post if federal regulators require News Corp to sell it; News Corp's pending purchase of Chris-Craft Industries, which owns WWOR-TV, may preclude it from owning both news outlets (M)
Date: 17 April 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Pulitzer Prizes are announced; are awarded to Michael Chabon in fiction for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay; Herbert P Bix in general nonfiction for Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan; Joseph J Ellis in history for Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation; Stephen Dunn in poetry for Different Hours; David Levering Lewis in biography for W E B Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963; David Auburn in drama for Proof; John Corigliano in music for Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra; awards in journalism go to Oregonian staff for public service; David Willman of Los Angeles Times for investigative reporting; New York Times staff for national reporting; Ian Johnson of Wall Street Journal and Paul Salopek of Chicago Tribune for international reporting; David Cay Johnston of New York Times for beat reporting; Miami Herald staff for breaking news; Chicago Tribune staff for explanatory reporting; Gail Caldwell of Boston Globe for criticism; Tom Hallman Jr of Oregonian for feature writing; Dorothy Rabinowitz of Wall Street Journal for commentary; David Moats of Rutland (Vt) Herald for editorial writing; Alan Diaz of Associated Press for breaking news photography; Matt Rainey of Star-Ledger for feature photography; Ann Telnaes of Los Angeles Times Syndicate for editorial cartooning; photo (M)
Date: 18 April 2001
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
CNBC Europe, London-based arm of NBC's financial news cable channel, is acquiring 20 percent equity interest in Italian-language financial news channel, CFN; deal is valued at about $123.6 million (M)
Date: 18 April 2001
By Don Kirk
Don Kirk
Hyundai Motor Co is denying report in Automotive News that its partnership with DaimlerChrysler is in jeopardy; strikers at Daewoo Motor Co, which creditors are trying to rescue from bankrupty and sell to General Motors, win sympathy of Pres Kim Dae Jung, who says he his 'ashamed' of harsh police conduct in crackdown on protests plant in Inchon in which 45 workers were injured (S)
Date: 17 April 2001
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Media-Most journalism empire, which lost control of its flagship television network NTV Apr 13, is staggered again when dissident shareholders who have taken control of company close its daily Moscow newspaper, Sevodnya; shares that prove crucial to decision are owned by state-dominated natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, as was case of NTV; Gazprom is in bitter struggle with tycoon Vladimir A Gusinsky for control of Media-Most; newspaper Sevodnya was known for its aggressive journalism (M)
Date: 18 April 2001
Editorial scores Russian Pres Vladimir Putin's role in silencing of independent media through government moves against Vladimir Gusinsky's media empire and pressure to deny independent journalists other outlets
Date: 18 April 2001
By Michael Wines
Michael Wines
Russian media baron Vladimir A Gusinsky loses another key property when dissident shareholders seize his popular national newsmagazine, Itogi, joint venture with American magazine Newsweek, and dismiss its staff; dissidents say they will continue issuing magazine with new staff; it remains unclear whether magazine will continue to give staff journalistic freedom; Newsweek suspends partnership; takeover, like earlier seizures of Gusinsky's media outlets, was engineered in part by state-dominated Gazprom, shareholder and major creditor in Gusinsky's Media-Most; spurs new charges that Gazprom works on Kremlin's behalf to destroy Media-Most (M)
Date: 17 April 2001
By Benjamin Weiser
Benjamin Weiser
US Embassy bombings trial continues, New York City; Judge Leonard Sand refuses request by Sam Schmidt, lawyer for Wadih El-Hage, to approve subpoena ordering CNN to make available videotape on Somalia that Schmidt claims is crucial to defense of his client; says tape shows that others besides bin Laden's group had motivation to attack Americans (M)
Date: 17 April 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cascade Investment, personal investment firm of Microsoft Corp chairman William H Gates, reports holding 7.8 percent stake in Liberty Satellite and Technology (S)
Date: 18 April 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Williams Companies sells its 198 Mapco Express conveniences stores to Delek Group of Israel for $147 million in cash plus additional amounts for fuel, merchandise and supplies (S)