MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

UPI Employees OK Givebacks: Unionized employees of United Press International have approved contract givebacks aimed at easing the company’s financial troubles, the news service said. UPI Editor Al Rossiter said the company was notified by the Wire Service Guild that the contract changes were approved by a margin of 83% to 17%. The 84-year-old news service said the agreement modifies five contract articles involving issues ranging from severance pay for laid-off workers to the use of stringers as correspondents. The articles were suspended Sept. 23 by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Francis Conrad in New York.