Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:53:03 -0700
From: Majordomo@marketplace.com
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COMMERCIAL ONLINE NEWSPAPER SERVICES:
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Last updated: 2/26/95 by Steve Outing (outings@netcom.com)
This is a list of newspaper publishers with online services in operation
OR under development. This list is current as of February 1995; however,
the picture changes quickly so some newspapers may have been left out.
At the end of this document I have referred to other online resources
listing FREE news sources on the Internet.
This is a work in progress! You can help by filling in some of the blanks
of this list. Please send additions/corrections to Steve Outing,
outings@netcom.com
(Note: The information in this document is a small sample of what is
included in the 1995 Online Newspaper Report, a market research analysis
published by Jupiter Communications. Principal author of the
Report is Steve Outing. Price: $995 ($595 for newspapers under 100,000
circulation). To order, call 800-488-4345.)
LOCAL DIAL-UP SERVICES:
Albuquerque Tribune (New Mexico, USA)
Arizona Republic/Phoenix Gazette (Arizona, USA)
Birmingham Post-Herald (Alabama, USA)
Capital-Gazette (Annapolis, Maryland, USA)
Charleston Post & Courier (S. Carolina, USA)
Charlotte Observer (N. Carolina, USA)
Cincinnati Post (Ohio, USA)
Danbury News-Times (Connecticut, USA)
Daytona Beach News-Journal (Florida, USA)
Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
Evansville Courier (Indiana, USA)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas, USA)
Gainesville Sun (Florida, USA)
Halifax Herald (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada)
Kansas City Star (Missouri, USA)
Lansing State Journal (Michigan, USA)
Metro Newspapers (California, USA)
Middlesex News (Massachusetts, USA)
Naples Daily News (Florida, USA)
Newsday (New York, USA)
News Herald newspaper (Southgate, Michigan, USA)
Poughkeepsie Journal (New York, USA)
Public News, Houston's Alternative Newsweekly (Texas, USA)
Raleigh News & Observer (N. Carolina, USA)
Salt Lake Tribune (Utah, USA)
Seattle Times (Washington, USA)
Spokesman-Review/Spokane Chronicle (Washington, USA)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri, USA)
Tacoma Tribune (Washington, USA)
The Times (Munster, Indiana, USA)
SERVICES ON AMERICA ONLINE:
Air Force Times/Army Times/Marine Corps Edition, Navy Times/Navy Times
Chicago Tribune (Illinois, USA)
Destination Florida (USA)
Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (Florida, USA)
Investor's Business Daily (Los Angeles, California, USA)
New York Times (USA)
Orlando Sentinel (Florida, USA)
San Jose Mercury News (California, USA)
SERVICES ON PRODIGY:
Allentown Morning Call (Pennsylvania, USA)
Atlanta Journal and Constitution (Georgia, USA)
Austin American-Statesman (Texas, USA)
Dallas Morning News (Texas, USA)
Dayton Daily News (Ohio, USA)
Gannett Suburban Newspapers (New York, USA)
Greenwich Time/Stamford Advocate (Connecticut, USA)
Hartford Courant (Connecticut, USA)
Houston Chronicle (Texas, USA)
Los Angeles Times (California, USA)
Milwaukee Journal and Sentinel (Wisconsin, USA)
Newsday (New York, USA)
New York Newsday (USA)
Palm Beach Post (Florida, USA)
Providence Journal (Rhode Island, USA)
Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia, USA)
Southam Newspapers (Canada)
Spokane Spokesman-Review (Washington, USA)
Tampa Tribune (Florida, USA)
Winston-Salem Journal (N. Carolina, USA)
SERVICES ON COMPUSERVE:
Detroit Free Press (Michigan, USA)
Florida Today (USA)
Gannett Suburban Newspapers/New York Newslink (USA)
SERVICES ON DELPHI:
Jewish Chronicle/London (Delphi UK only)
Orange County Register (California, USA)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri, USA)
Times of London/Sunday Times (England)
SERVICES ON ZIFF-DAVIS INTERCHANGE:
Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
Washington Post / Digital Ink (Washington, D.C., USA)
SERVICES ON THE INTERNET:
Aftonbladet (Stockholm, Sweden)
Aftonposten (Oslo, Norway)
The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
Agencia Estado (Brasil)
Analytica Moscow (Russia)
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, Arizona, USA)
Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
Aspen Times (Colorado, USA) (INACTIVE AS OF 1/95)
Casper Star Tribune (Wyoming, USA)
Chicago Tribune (Illinois, USA)
China Business Journal (China)
Chronicle of Higher Education (USA)
Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph (Colorado, USA)
Columbus Dispatch (Ohio, USA)
Dallas Morning News (Texas, USA)
Der Standard (Vienna, Austria)
Detroit Free Press (Michigan, USA)
Excelsior (Mexico City, Mexico)
Flint Journal (Michigan, USA)
Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland)
Halifax Daily News (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Halifax Herald (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Hartford Courant (Connecticut, USA)
The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland)
High Country News (Paonia, Colorado, USA)
Hollis Brookline Journal (New Hampshire, USA)
Investor's Business Daily (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
Jerusalem Post (Israel)
Jewish Week (New York, USA)
Jornal do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Journal Newspapers (Virginia/Maryland, USA)
Knoxville News-Sentinel (Tennessee, USA)
Kyoto News (Japan)
Livonia and Redford Observers (Michigan, USA)
L'Unione Sarda (Italy)
Miami Herald (Florida, USA)
Middlesex News (Massachusetts, USA)
Milford Cabinet (New Hampshire, USA)
Moscow News (Russia)
Municipal Reporter (Oslo, Norway)
Nashville Business Journal (Tennessee, USA)
Newark Star-Ledger (New Jersey, USA)
News & Record (Greensboro, N. Carolina)
New York Post (New York, USA)
New York Times (USA)
Nezavisimaia Gazeta/Independent Newspaper (Moscow, Russia)
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (Virginia, USA)
North Shore News (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
North Tahoe/Truckee Week (California, USA)
Ottawa Citizen (Ontario, Canada)
OutNOW! (San Jose, California, USA)
Palo Alto Weekly (California, USA)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania, USA)
Pittston Gazette (Pennsylvania, USA)
Raleigh News & Observer (N. Carolina, USA)
Roanoke Times & World News (Virginia, USA)
San Diego Daily Transcript (California, USA)
San Francisco Chronicle (California, USA)
San Francisco Examiner (California, USA)
San Jose Mercury News (California, USA)
San Mateo Times (California, USA)
St. Petersburg Press (Russia)
Syracuse Newspapers (New York, USA)
The Telegraph (London, England)
The Times Higher Education Supplement (London, England)
Unita' in rete (Italy)
USA Today (Virginia, USA)
Vacaville Reporter (California, USA)
The Village Voice (New York, USA)
Wall Street Journal/DowVision (New York, USA)
The Weekly Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg, South Africa)
The Western Producer (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)
NEWSPAPER SERVICES ON OTHER ONLINE NETWORKS:
Liverpool Daily Post
MISC. ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER SERVICES:
American Cybercasting (Ohio, USA)
Clarinet Communications Corp. (San Jose, California, USA)
Ensemble-WAIS Inc./Relevant Personal Edition (Menlo Park, California, USA)
Personal Journal/Wall Street Journal (New York, USA)
Reuters NewMedia/What On Earth (New York, USA)
Rochester Business Journal (New York, USA)
Walksoft Corp./News In Motion (Rochester, New York, USA)
WorldNews On Line (Chevcy Chase, Maryland, USA)
MISC./RESEARCH/RESOURCES ON ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS:
Cyberspace Development Inc.
Hearst New Media Center
Information Design Laboratory
IDL Video/"The Tablet Newspaper"
INES (Initiative for Newspaper Electronic Supplements, IFRA)
Interactive Media Lab, University of Florida
Interactive Publishing Alert
Jupiter Communications
Mediator
MISANET (S. Africa newspaper network)
MIT News in the Future Consortium
"News Box" / Associated Newspapers Ltd., England
Newspapers Online, 1995 edition
online-news@marketplace.com
online-newspapers@marketplace.com
1995 Online Newspaper Report
ONline Wisconsin
Society of Electronic News Delivery (SEND)
The Wilt Letter
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LOCAL DIAL-UP BBSs: ( "*" indicates BBS accessible via Internet)
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* Albuquerque Tribune (New Mexico, USA)
NAME: The Electronic Trib
DIAL-UP #: 505-823-7700 (2400 baud)
505-823-7701 (14400 baud)
CONTACT: Roy Buergi / rbuergi@etrib.com / 505-823-3664
PRICE: Free 45 minutes per day with password printed in paper.
Memberships with the ability to spend as long as 4 hours online
costs $20 for 3 months, $35 for 6 months and $50 for 1 year.
LAUNCHED: 1990
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Arizona Republic/Phoenix Gazette (Arizona, USA)
NAME: Home Buying Choices
DIAL-UP #: 602-440-4663
CONTACT: Howard Finberg / 602-271-8248 / hfinberg@pni.com
Dave Gianelli / 602-271-8601 / dgianelli@pni.com
PRICE: Free to users
LAUNCHED: October 1993
DESCRIPTION: A multi-media real estate advertising program consisting
of classified advertising, a free bi-weekly magazine, audio-text,
fax-on-demand and BBS. Home sellers pay a single fee and are listed
on all the print and electronic platforms.
BBS callers can search for homes by price, location (down to school
attendance zones), size, bedrooms or any of a number of features -- or
any combination of those.
BBS callers can also use an interactive mortgage calculator to
determine monthly payments or how much of a mortgage they can afford.
Coupled with that are current interest rates from local lendors.
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Birmingham Post-Herald (Alabama, USA)
NAME: Post-Herald Online
DIAL-UP #: 205-664-9883 (on Magic City, a free BBS)
CONTACT: Darin Powell / 205-325-2485 / dapowell@aol.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: April 1994
DESCRIPTION: Text of most local stories is uploaded to local BBSs.
Electronic letters to editor, forum for reader comments.
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Charleston Post & Courier (South Carolina, USA)
NAME: Post & Courier Online
DIAL-UP #: 803-937-5559
CONTACT: Steve Mullins / 803-577-7111
David MacDougall / 803-937-5561 / DavidMacD@aol.com
PRICE: Currently free.
SUBSCRIBERS: 800 registered users.
LAUNCHED: July 1994
DESCRIPTION: Began as a politics only BBS but expanded after our primary
elections to include other features.
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Charlotte Observer (North Carolina, USA)
NAME: Observer Online
DIAL-UP #: 704-358-5072
CONTACT: Gary Nielson / 704-358-5249 / gary.nielson@community.com
PRICE: Currently free.
SUBSCRIBERS: 7,000 registered users.
LAUNCHED: 1992
DESCRIPTION: Primarily a discussion board, giving readers an opportunity to
talk to Observer staff and each other. Some online news content.
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Cincinnati Post (Ohio, USA)
NAME: Post Electronic Edition
DIAL-UP:
CONTACT: Bob Kraft / 513-352-2000
PRICE: Free service on Productivity Online, a local online service that
charges $10 a month.
LAUNCHED: September 1994
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Danbury News-Times (Connecticut, USA)
NAME: The News-Times BBS
DIAL-UP #: 203-792-6397
CONTACT: Rich Joudy / 203-744-5100
PRICE: Free to newspaper subscribers; $20 for 6 months for non-subscribers.
SUBSCRIBERS: 2,100
LAUNCHED: Sept. 1993
DESCRIPTION: Offers online news content, live chat, archives of reviews,
classified ads, software libraries.
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Daytona Beach News-Journal (Florida, USA)
NAME: News-Journal Center
DIAL-UP #: 904-947-6397
CONTACT: Monty Midyette / 904-252-1511, x551
Emery Jeffreys / 904-252-1511, x468 / jeffreye@bb.erau.edu
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: July 1994
SUBSCRIBERS: 5,500 registered users, October 1994
DESCRIPTION: Content: Local and Associated Press news and sports reports,
community services, access to public library book database, classified
advertisements, forums and file libraries. The free service will include
elements of News-Journal sports, business and feature stories plus
classified advertising for such things as real estate, automobiles and
employment. Public agencies are going to participate in the information
system and will be an important part of the service.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
NAME: Crossroads Information Network
DIAL-UP #:
CONTACT: Stewart Shelline / 801-237-2188
PRICE: Free to Deseret News daily subscribers; Sunday-only subscribers,
$2.25/month; non-subscribers, $9.95/month; LDSChurch News subscribers,
$8.50/month.
LAUNCHED: January 1995
DESCRIPTION: Requires use of proprietary software which runs only on
PCs using the Windows operating system.
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Evansville Courier (Indiana, USA)
NAME: Courier Online
DIAL-UP #: 812-424-1099
CONTACT: Mark Blanchard / 812-424-7711 / mblanch.wnin@smtp.usi.edu
PRICE: Free for now.
LAUNCHED: July 1994
SUBSCRIBERS: 2,300 active accounts.
DESCRIPTION: Live chat, discussion forums, Scripps-Howard News service copy
online, library archive, community resources, classified ads, games, sports
statistics.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas, USA)
NAME: StarText
DIAL-UP #: 817-878-9800 or 214-638-4150
CONTACT: Michael Holland / 817-390-7954 / mholland@onramp.net
Paul Harral / 817-390-7832 / harral@onramp.net
Marla Hammond / mhammond@delphi.com
PRICE: $9.95 a month
SUBSCRIBERS: 4,600 (as of fall 1994)
LAUNCHED: 1982
DESCRIPTION: A text-only service, it offers news articles, classfieds and
private e-mail but lacks display ads and photos. There are no "live" chat
boards, and every message that users post publicly is first screened by
an editor. StarText has six full-time employees, three part-time
employees and three contract sales reps who sell ads for the service's
new restaurant guide. For a $75 set-up fee plus $50 a month, local
restaurants can post their menus online; 26 restaurants have signed up so
far. (Source: Interactive Publishing Alert)
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* Gainesville Sun (Florida, USA)
NAME: Sun.ONE (Online News & Entertainment)
DIAL-UP #: tba
CONTACT: Roger Oglesby / Oglesbic@aol.com
David Carlson / gigabit@ufl.edu / 904-846-0171
PRICE: 30 minutes per day free; up to 3 hours additional access per day for
rates as low as $6.66 a month.
LAUNCHED: January 1995
DESCRIPTION: A partnership by The Gainesville Sun, a New York Times
newspaper, and the Interactive News Lab at the University of Florida College
of Journalism and Communications. The Sun will provide financial support and
content, including local news, display advertising, classifieds, yellow
pages, telephone listings and wire copy from the Associated Press, the New
York Times News Service and other sources, while the Interactive News Lab
will provide know-how, staff and facilities in the College of Journalism and
Communications. Student staff will edit copy and format content for the
electronic newspaper. Sun.ONE will be a dial-up service, but plans call for
it to be accessible to and from the Internet.
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Halifax Herald (Nova Scotia, Canada)
NAME: The Halifax Herald Limited
DIAL-UP #: 902-426-6397
CONTACT: John MacCallum / 902-426-2840 / jmaccall@fox.nstn.ca
PRICE: Call for price info
LAUNCHED: Early 1995
DESCRIPTION: Offers news, forums, file library (shareware), etc.. First
quarter '95 expects to include Internet access.
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Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada)
NAME: CompuSpec
DIAL-UP #: 416-522-3422
CONTACT: Jodi Aussam / 905-526-3407
Deborah Jessop / JessopDJ@aol.com / 905-526-3333
PRICE: Free for now.
SUBSCRIBERS: 6,000 (as of October 1994)
LAUNCHED: 1986
DESCRIPTION: Offers local news, columns and feature stories from the
printed paper, live "chat," and e-mail conferences sponsored by
advertisers. A recently announced joint venture between Southam, Inc.,
The Spectator's parent company, and Prodigy could mean that CompuSpec
will be merged into the Prodigy network. Prodigy's Canadian trials are
set to begin in the fourth quarter of 1994. (Source: Interactive
Publishing Alert)
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Kansas City Star (Missouri, USA)
NAME: StarNet
DIAL-UP #: tba
CONTACT: Nancy Tracewell / 816-234-4497 / nancytrace@aol.com
PRICE: $9.95/month for 30 hours
LAUNCHED: October 1994 (beta); January 1995 (public launch)
DESCRIPTION: A home-grown online service with local dial-up access
(access via the Internet expected sometime in 1995). Will include
news content, reader discussion forums, email, classified ads,
search access to the Star's electronic library (1991 forward), 15-minute
delay stock service, some games, gateway to local online services
(libraries, etc.). GUI interface developed by the newspaper's staff.
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Lansing State Journal (Michigan, USA)
NAME: LSJ-Access
DIAL-UP #: 517-377-1253
CONTACT:
PRICE:
LAUNCHED:
DESCRIPTION: Readers can send a letter to the editor, send a meeting or
event notice, leave a comment or talk to others.
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Metro Newspapers (California, USA)
(This chain owns 9 community newspapers, including the San Jose Metro, Santa
Cruz Metro and Sonoma County Independent)
NAME: Live Wire and Virtual Valley Community Network
DIAL-UP #: 408-298-8646
CONTACT: Dan Pulcrano / 408-298-8000
David Lee / 408-885-8843
PRICE: 30 minutes per day free; $7/month for 100 minutes per day; $25/month
for unlimited time online.
SUBSCRIBERS: 3,000 users.
LAUNCHED: Fall 1993 (Live Wire); October 1994 (Virtual Valley)
DESCRIPTION: Live Wire is an arts and entertainment oriented online service
affiliated with Metro's community newspapers. Virtual Valley Community Network
is a community news and resources online service. This is a FirstClass BBS,
linked to other FirstClass BBSs around the country.
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Middlesex News (Massachusetts, USA)
NAME: Fred the Computer
DIAL-UP #: 508-872-8461
CONTACT: Eric Bauer / 508-626-3800
PRICE: Free or $15/year subscription
SUBSCRIBERS: 1,200 users.
LAUNCHED: 1987
DESCRIPTION: Dial-up BBS featuring Internet access.
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Naples Daily News (Florida, USA)
NAME: Daily News Online
DIAL-UP:
CONTACT: Corbin Wyant / 813-262-3161
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: September 1994
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Newsday (New York, USA)
NAME: Newsday Online
DIAL-UP #: 516-454-6959
CONTACT: Fred Tuccillo / 516-843-2020
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED:
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News Herald newspapers (Southgate, Michigan, USA)
NAME: tba
DIAL-UP #: tba
CONTACT: Frederick Manuel / 313-246-0828
PRICE: $10.95 per month; includes 30 hours of Internet access.
LAUNCHED: 1995
DESCRIPTION: The News Herald prints several different newspapers for the 21
communities and 19 school districts within its purview. It is expanding online,
offering readers 30 hours of Internet access, e-mail service and daily
updates to the newspaper. Emphasis will be on online presention of local news and
information, which only small community newspapers traditionally have offered.
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Poughkeepsie Journal (New York, USA)
NAME: Poughkeepsie Journal BBS
DIAL-UP #: 914-437-4936
CONTACT: Anthony DeBarros / 914-437-4877
PRICE: Free
SUBSCRIBERS: 700
LAUNCHED: Nov. 1992
DESCRIPTION: Discussion forums, email, community resources online.
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Public News, Houston's Alternative Newsweekly (Texas, USA)
NAME: Cyberlink
DIAL-UP #: 713-524-3609
CONTACT: Patrick Griggs / griggs@jetson.uh.edu
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: The oldest alternative newspaper in Houston. I would
like to extend an invitation to all interested writers to propose
story ideas and/or upload submissions, as we are always looking for
fresh ideas from qualified writers. Cyberlink can accept calls from
either mac or pc and supports baud rates from 300 to 14.4.
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* Raleigh News & Observer (North Carolina, USA)
NAME: NandO.Net
DIAL-UP #: 919-829-3560
CONTACT: Bruce Siceloff / 919-829-4527 / bsicelof@nando.net
PRICE: $20 per month for family (up to 5 user ids); no time limit.
Free for North Carolina school students statewide during school
hours, free at home for school teachers, free for disabled users.
($10 per month for Internet users.)
LAUNCHED: March 1994
DESCRIPTION:
--Major BBS with Rip grafix.
--Games, user forums, email, teleconference, chat.
--News & Observer classified ads.
--Retail shopping 'mall' (in development).
--Reference & learning center with literary, historical and reference
texts, North Carolina government & political data, and a legislative
bill tracking service.
--An online edition with all available text from the printed editions
of The News & Observer, with some supplementary material not
included in the print editions. A sampler from the daily edition is
posted on merlin, our public access gopher.
--Internet gateway including www, hytelnet, ftp, telnet, Usenet
newsgroups, gopher, mosaic home page etc.
--Limited use of the BBS to publish breaking news (NCAA championship
game, Nixon demise, etc.). We'll be doing more of this throughout
the day, both for breaking news and for periodic news and sports
updates.
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Salt Lake Tribune (Utah, USA)
NAME: Utah Online
DIAL-UP #: 801-237-2069
CONTACT: John Jordan / 801-237-2083 / JJJordan@aol.com
PRICE: Free to newspaper subscribers; otherwise $29.95 for three months.
LAUNCHED: Jan. 1994
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Seattle Times (Washington, USA)
NAME: Seattle Times Extra
DIAL-UP #: tba
CONTACT: Nina Bondarook / 206-464-8556 / nbon-tis@seatimes.com
PRICE: $10 per month or less (depending on length of subscription)
LAUNCHED: January 1995
DESCRIPTION: Dial-up BBS using Major BBS. Content of Seattle Times,
restaurant guide, reviews, reference files and information from community
groups and government organizations, online shopping area, and content from
other local, regional and international sources. References in newspaper
will point to content available only online.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri, USA)
NAME: Post-Link
DIAL-UP #:
CONTACT: Connie Orchard / 314-865-8500 / connieo@delphi.com
PRICE:
LAUNCHED: January 1992
DESCRIPTION: Will be on Delphi as of late 1994 or early 1995.
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* Spokesman-Review/Spokane Chronicle (Washington, USA)
NAME: S-R Minerva
DIAL-UP #: 509-459-5233
CONTACT: Shaun Higgins / 509-459-5060
PRICE: Most services free; $8-$12 per month for Internet access, games and
other features.
SUBSCRIBERS: 5,000 registered users.
LAUNCHED: 1982
DESCRIPTION: Primarily a discussion and chat BBS.
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* Tacoma Tribune (Washington, USA)
NAME: Trib-Net
DIAL-UP #:
CONTACT: Greg Anderson / 206-597-8269 / anderson.greg@m.tribnet.com
PRICE:
LAUNCHED: June 1994
DESCRIPTION: BBS uses Major BBS with Ripterm graphical interface. Includes
Internet access.
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* The Times (Munster, Indiana, USA)
NAME: CaluNET
DIAL-UP #: TBA
CONTACT: Justin Kerr / kerr@howpubs.com / 219-933-3200
PRICE: TBA
LAUNCHED: First quarter 1995
DESCRIPTION: CaluNET is a community-focused online service headquartered
at The Times, a 70,000 circulation daily newspaper centered in Northwest
Indiana and the south suburbs of Chicago. In addition to an electronic
version of the daily newspaper, we plan to offer live news feeds,
Internet access, community forums and chats, access to The Times
databases and nonobtrusive online advertising. CaluNET and The Times are
subsidiaries of Howard Publications.
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SERVICES ON AMERICA ONLINE:
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PRICE for all: $9.95/month includes 5 hours; then $2.95/hour
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Air Force Times/Army Times/Marine Corps Edition, Navy Times/Navy Times
NAME: Military City Online
KEYWORD: MCO
CONTACT: Army Times Publishing Co. / 703-750-8636
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: Online text content of these newspapers serving the military
community.
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Chicago Tribune (Tribune Co.) (Illinois, USA)
NAME: Chicago Online
KEYWORD: TRIB
CONTACT: Gene Quinn / 312-222-4340 / genequinn@aol.com
LAUNCHED: 1992
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Destination Florida (Tribune Co.) (Florida, USA)
NAME: Destination Florida
KEYWORD: FLORIDA
CONTACT: Julie Anderson / 407-420-6174 / DFJulie@aol.com
LAUNCHED: June 1994
DESCRIPTION: A travel information service that repurposes content from
the Orlando Sentinel and Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (both Tribune Co.
newspapers). Targeted at a national audience of travel consumers.
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Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel (Tribune Co.) (Florida, USA)
NAME: tba
KEYWORD: tba
CONTACT: Scott B. Anderson / 305-356-4590 / SBAnderson@aol.com
LAUNCHED: Sometime in 1995
DESCRIPTION: Will launch its own online product on AOL in 1995; also has
forged a corporate relationship with local Free-Net for presence on the net.
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Investor's Business Daily
NAME: Investor's Business Daily
KEYWORD: IBD
CONTACT: Thomas McGloin / 310-448-6000 / thomasm836@aol.com
LAUNCHED: November 1994
DESCRIPTION: Daily articles and finance features from the newspaper are
available online; discussion areas. This is primarily a service to
generate interest in the print edition of Investor's Business Daily.
(IBD also is creating an Internet-based online service.)
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New York Times (New York, USA)
NAME: @times
KEYWORD: TIMES
CONTACT: Henry Scott / hank@nytimes.com / 212-499-3450
LAUNCHED: Summer 1994
DESCRIPTION: An interactive version of the paper's popular arts and
leisure pages. Rather than attempt to put the entire paper online at
once, The Times has created a world-class entertainment guide to help
both New Yorkers and out-of-town visitors plan their nights and weekends
in the Big Apple. There are message boards where readers can
swap notes on everything from "The Flintstones" and the Philharmonic to
new SoHo restaurants and books on the Times Best Seller Lists. There's
also a searchable archive of current and past Times reviews. (Source:
Interactive Publishing Alert)
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Orlando Sentinel (Tribune Co.) (Florida, USA)
NAME: Orlando Sentinel Online
KEYWORD: FLORIDA
CONTACT: Julie Anderson / 407-420-6174 / DFJulie@aol.com
LAUNCHED: December 1994
DESCRIPTION: The newspaper is launching its own online service in addition
to participating in Tribune Co.'s Destination Florida service on AOL.
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San Jose Mercury News (California, USA)
NAME: Mercury Center
KEYWORD: MERCURY
CONTACT: Bill Mitchell / bmitch@aol.com / 408-920-5719
Barry Parr / barryparr@aol.com / 408-920-5384
LAUNCHED: May 1993
DESCRIPTION: Full access to America Online
Full text of today's Mercury News
Supplemental stories that don't appear in the paper (about 300/day)
Bulletin boards and e-mail for editors, writers, columnists
Archive of back issues since June 1985 plus 15 other newspapers
Libraries of selected information from the paper
Classified and Online-only advertising
Complete local movie, TV, and live entertainment schedules.
(Also see listing under Internet services.)
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Articles from other newspapers, such as the Boston Globe, can be found
on AOL. One way to access them is to go to Mercury Center (Keyword
MERCURY) and click on the "Text Search" icon. Then type in "Boston
Globe" for a list of current Globe stories.
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SERVICES ON PRODIGY:
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PRICE for all: $14.95/month, which includes unlimited connect time for
basic services and 5 hours for discussion boards ($2.95 per hour beyond
5 hours). There's also a $9.95/month option. Newspapers are extra
$4.95/month surcharge. (Some newspapers are available as a stand-alone
service -- no other Prodigy features -- for $6.95.)
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Allentown Morning Call (Pennsylvania, USA)
KEYWORD:
CONTACT:
LAUNCHED: tba
DESCRIPTION: Paper has stated its intention to build a service on Prodigy.
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Atlanta Journal and Constitution (Georgia, USA)
NAME: Access Atlanta
KEYWORD: (JUMP) ACCESS ATLANTA
PRICE: $4.95/month to subscribe to Access Atlanta. Non-Prodigy users
can receive only Access Atlanta for $6.95/month.
CONTACT: David Scott / 404-526-5897 / david_scott@ajc.com
SUBSCRIBERS: 14,000 subscribers signed up in first 90 days. (Prodigy
has 25,000 households in Atlanta area.)
LAUNCHED: March 1994
DESCRIPTION: Offers local news and lots of it -- not only for Atlanta but for
neighboring counties as well. There's also lots of local information,
much of it searchable by zip code (such as real estate sales) or indexes
(such as transportation routes). The electronic paper also includes a
good mix of national, foreign, business and sports news and information
plus local columns by Journal and Constitution staffers. There's also a
Local News Databank containing exhaustive listings of births, deaths,
eatery inspections and other data. (Source: Interactive Publishing Alert)
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Austin American-Statesman (Texas, USA)
KEYWORD:
CONTACT:
LAUNCHED: tba
DESCRIPTION: Paper has stated its intention to build a service on Prodigy.
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Dallas Morning News (Texas, USA)
NAME: Pro Football Report
KEYWORD: (JUMP) DMN
PRICE: Free (beyond normal monthly Prodigy fee)
CONTACT: Jim Galli / 214-977-7543
LAUNCHED: October 1994
DESCRIPTION: The newspaper's initial foray onto Prodigy is tailored to pro
football fans -- especially those who follow the Dallas Cowboys. The area
includes game-day facts, match-ups, starting lineups, in-progress game reports,
a post-game section, scoring summary, statistics, columns and the Dallas Forum
bulletin board, where fans can post notes about the Cowboys. The newspaper will
build a larger service on Proidgy in the coming months.
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Dayton Daily News (Ohio, USA)
KEYWORD:
CONTACT:
LAUNCHED: tba
DESCRIPTION: Paper has stated its intention to build a service on Prodigy.
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Gannett Suburban Newspapers (New York, USA)
KEYWORD:
CONTACT: Barry Abisch / 914-694-5044 / 71333.3066@compuserve.com
LAUNCHED: Sometime in 1995
DESCRIPTION: Gannett Suburban publishes 10 dailies covering the New York
suburbs. Its forthcoming Prodigy online newspaper service is in addition to
the papers' presence on CompuServe.
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Greenwich Time/Stamford Advocate (Connecticut, USA)
KEYWORD:
CONTACT:
LAUNCHED: tba
DESCRIPTION: Papers have stated their intention to build a service on Prodigy.
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Hartford Courant (Connecticut, USA)
KEYWORD:
CONTACT: John M. Moran / 203-649-8601 / COURANT@PNET.COM
LAUNCHED:
DESCRIPTION: Paper has stated its intention to build a service on Prodigy.
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Houston Chronicle (Texas, USA)
NAME: Houston Chronicle Interactive
KEYWORD: tba
PRICE: No extra charge beyond normal Prodigy rates.
CONTACT: Matt Cohen / 713-220-7023 / matt.cohen@chron.com
LAUNCHED: Sometime in 1995.
DESCRIPTION: Will offer news, entertainment, shopping, access to a database
of past articles, classified and display advertising, bulletin boards, real-
time chat areas. Unlike other newspapers on Prodigy, it will not require a
surcharge above normal Prodigy rates.
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Los Angeles Times (California, USA)
NAME: TimesLink
KEYWORD: (JUMP) LA1
PRICE: $4.95/month to subscribe to TimesLink. Non-Prodigy users
can receive only TimesLink for $6.95/month.
CONTACT: Victor A. Perry III / 213-237-2399
Dan Fisher / 213-237-6036 / WAUX81A@Prodigy.Com
LAUNCHED: October 1994
DESCRIPTION: An extensive online service for the L.A. market, featuring a
wealth of community resources. Not only an electronic version of what is
already available in the newspaper, but it also is something akin to an
interactive community database. Notable features include clickable maps to
call up recent news stories about neighborhoods; chat sessions with
reporters.
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Milwaukee Journal/Milwaukee Sentinel (Wisconsin, USA)
NAME: On Wisconsin
KEYWORD:
CONTACT: Peter Stockhausen / 414-224-2969
LAUNCHED: First quarter 1995
DESCRIPTION: The Milwaukee newspapers will offer a local online service
targeting Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The service will
feature databases, information on local communities, entertainment and
education features, local bulletin boards, and e-mail interaction with
the papers' reporters and editors. The service will also include
multimedia elements such as photos and sound. (Source: Interactive
Publishing Alert)
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Newsday/New York Newsday (New York, USA)
NAME: Newsday Direct
KEYWORD: (JUMP) NDNY
PRICE: $4.95/month to subscribe to Newsday Direct. Non-Prodigy users
can receive only Newsday Direct for $6.95/month.
CONTACT: Fred Tuccillo / 516-843-3482 / tgsn30a@prodigy.com
LAUNCHED: October 1994
DESCRIPTION: An extensive online service for the New York market, featuring a
wealth of community resources. Not only an electronic version of what is
already available in the newspaper, but it also is something akin to an
interactive community database. Features customizable Manhattan and Long
Island online editions.
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Palm Beach Post (Florida, USA)
KEYWORD:
CONTACT: Dan Shorter / 407-820-4462
LAUNCHED: TBA
DESCRIPTION: Paper has stated its intention to build a service on Prodigy.
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Providence Journal and Bulletin (Rhode Island, USA)
KEYWORD:
CONTACT: John Granatino / 401-277-7371 / john_granatino@projo.com
LAUNCHED: February 1995
DESCRIPTION: "We envision the online service as a new communication
model for the area, for the state," says director of electronic
publishing John Granatino. Interactive, chat and e-mail functions will
be an important part of the mix, as well as news, classifieds, display
advertising and features from the paper.
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Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia, USA)
NAME: Gateway Virginia
KEYWORD: tba
CONTACT: Mike Steele / 804-649-6966 / tanf52a@prodigy.com
Dave Chapin / 804-649-6000 / saxg15a@prodigy.com
LAUNCHED: Late summer 1995
DESCRIPTION: This will be the only Virginia newspaper deal with Prodigy.
The service is to feature news, features, classified and retail advertising.
Gateway Virginia will form alliances with other newspapers, TV and other media
outlets to provide content to the service, under the Times-Dispatch/Gateway
Virginia umbrella.
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Southam Newspapers (Canada)
CONTACT: Jim Fitzgerald / 416-442-2290
LAUNCHED: 2nd quarter 1995
DESCRIPTION: The Southam/Prodigy alliance is not a newspaper deal, per se,
although several Southam papers will eventually build local services on the
Canadian online system partly owned by Prodigy. The largest Southam newspapers
will probably go online in 1995 and 1996.
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Spokane Spokesman-Review (Washington, USA)
NAME:
KEYWORD:
CONTACT: Shaun Higgins / 509-459-5060
PRICE: tba
LAUNCHED: Spring 1995
DESCRIPTION: A regional online service covering eastern Washington, northern
Idaho, and parts of Oregon and Montana.
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Tampa Tribune (Florida, USA)
NAME: Tampa Bay Online
KEYWORD: (JUMP) TBO
CONTACT: Rick Scheuerman / 813-259-7711 / sywg06A@prodigy.com
Carl Crothers / 813-259-7711 / ymtu93a@prodigy.com
PRICE: $4.95/month additional fee to view Tampa Bay Online. (Not available as
a stand-alone service.)
SUBSCRIBERS: 4,700 users enrolled as of November 1994.
LAUNCHED: August 1994
DESCRIPTION: Tampa Bay Online is packed with information about Florida's
beaches, tourist destinations, weather, etc. Click on an icon to get
today's lottery results. Includes standard staple of news, features and
columns. Reader message boards available, but they are lightly used in
early months. (Source: Interactive Publishing Alert.)
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Winston-Salem Journal (North Carolina, USA)
KEYWORD:
CONTACT:
LAUNCHED: tba
DESCRIPTION: Paper has stated its intention to build a service on Prodigy.
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Contact at Prodigy: Jeff Moore / jeff@prodigy.com / 914-448-8842
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SERVICES ON COMPUSERVE:
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Detroit Free Press (Michigan, USA)
ADDRESS: GO DETFORUM
CONTACT: Rick Ratliff / 313-222-8772 / 72662.1736@compuserve.com
LAUNCHED: January 1994
DESCRIPTION: "The Free Press Forum provides a handy extension of the newspaper
and a place to communicate with the writers, editors and columnists who make
a colorful city come alive in print every morning.
You will find helpful and newsy articles, as well as award winning
photography, in our files section. You can discuss a wide variety of issues
in our message section, and you can participate in live conferences with
Detroit's most powerful newsmakers in one of our many conference rooms."
(From intro screen to service.)
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Florida Today (Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA)
ADDRESS: GO FLATODAY
CONTACT: Mark DeCotis / 407-242-3786 / 71333.1616@compuserve.com
LAUNCHED: February 1993
DESCRIPTION: An extension of Florida Today newspaper, a Gannett daily located in
Brevard County, home to Kennedy Space Center, America's spaceport. Space drives
our newspaper and our forum. We hold live, interactive conferences covering
space shuttle launches and landings and launches of expendable rockets. We hold
conferences with space newsmakers. Our two-person space reporting team
contributes daily breaking news stories to the forum. We post daily news stories
in our message and library sections and have very active library sections,
especially space, which feature high-quality color gifs and graphics.
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Gannett Suburban Newspapers/New York Newslink (New York, USA)
ADDRESS: GO NEWYORK
CONTACT: Barry Abisch / 914-694-5044 / 71333.3066@compuserve.com
LAUNCHED: October 1993
DESCRIPTION: NYNL is is an electronic extension of the newspapers we publish
for the suburban counties just north of New York City. In the New York
NewsLink libraries, you'll find a selection of stories that have appeared in
our newspapers. These files include New York theater reviews along with
regularly updated listings of upcoming entertainment events in and around the
Big Apple. New York NewsLink also is the place where displaced New York sports
fans can enjoy home-town coverage of their favorite teams, no matter where
they might be living. In the NYNL libraries you'll find comprehensive
reporting on the Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, Knicks and Rangers, among other
New York teams.
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Currently, CompuServe has 28 non-U.S. publications online, including
Australian Associated Press, Associated Press France en Ligne,
Deutsches Windows Magazin, Der Spiegel and Computer Shopper (UK). Its UK
Newspaper Library contains articles from Daily & Sunday Telegraph, The
European, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times &
Sunday Times, Today, and UK News. And the service is actively looking
for more, especially in Europe where it has 120,000 members.
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SERVICES ON DELPHI:
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PRICE $10/month for 4 hours of use; additional hours $4.
Or $20/month for 20 hours of use; additional hours $1.80.
Internet service option is $3/month extra (for either plan above).
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Jewish Chronicle (London, England)
NAME: JC Net
KEYWORD: available on Delphi UK, or to U.S. Delphi users via
Custom Forum 171
CONTACT: Jonathan Miller / jonathan@delphi.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: Includes news summaries and discussion forums. Text-only at
this time. This is the oldest and most prestigious of Anglo-Jewish weeklies.
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The Orange County Register (California, USA)
NAME: tba
KEYWORD:
CONTACT: Leah Gentry / LMGENTRY@ocr1.freedom.com / 714-664-5006
Wes Wilde / WILDE@ocr1.freedom.com / 714-953-2237
PRICE: TBA
LAUNCH: late 1994
DESCRIPTION: A text-based interface will be launched in late 1994; a
GUI is expected sometime in 1995.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri, USA)
NAME: Post-Link
KEYWORD:
CONTACT: Connie Orchard / 314-865-8500 / connieo@delphi.com
PRICE:
LAUNCHED: Early 1995
DESCRIPTION: Post-Link dial-up BBS was started in 1992; will be added
to Delphi in early 1995.
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The Times of London/Sunday Times (England)
NAME: Times Online/Sunday Times Online
KEYWORD: available on Delphi UK, or to U.S. Delphi users via
Custom Forum 171
CONTACT: Jonathan Miller / jonathan@delphi.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: September 1994
DESCRIPTION: Includes reader discussion forums, news summaries and other
features. Readers can create their own online polls and have other users
respond.
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SERVICES ON AT&T INTERCHANGE:
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Note: The Interchange Online system initially will be available for
people with IBM PC or compatible computers, models 386 and above, that
run Windows 3.1 software and have a 9600-baud modem. A version for
Macintosh computers will be available later in 1995.
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Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
NAME: Star Tribune Online
CONTACT: Robert Schafer / roberts@startribune.com
Steve Yelvington / stevey@startribune.com
PRICE: Under $15 a month
LAUNCHED: Beta: fall 1994. Open to public: early 1995
DESCRIPTION: Star Tribune Online will provide news, photos and
information beyond the material that is printed in the daily
newspaper. Specialized local information will include such
features as an informational guide about the Twin Cities,
entertainment listings, event calendars, and the ability to
search Star Tribune newspaper classified advertising. Subscribers
also will have early access to news stories that will appear in
the newspaper the next morning. Local bulletin boards will give
subscribers the opportunity to communicate among themselves on
topics which they are interested.
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Washington Post / Digital Ink (Washington D.C., USA)
NAME: The Washington Post's Digital Ink
CONTACT: Mark Potts / 202-334-6000 / mpotts@access.digex.net
Jason Seiken / 202-334-5426 / seikenj@washpost.com
PRICE: TBA
LAUNCHED: Early 1995
DESCRIPTION: The Post online service will go beyond the traditional
print newspaper, providing additional news and information--in areas
such as business, sports, education and entertainment--calendars,
games, contests, conversation groups and other interactive activities.
It will be a one-stop venue for Washington-area residents to turn to
for online news and information. It will include detailed neighborhood
news, texts of speeches and press conferences and a comprehensive
guide to entertainment in Washington. The service also will provide
electronic access to The Post's archives for quick retrieval of past
articles, as well as a connection to the Internet. Online advertising,
both display and classified, will be included.
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SERVICES ON THE INTERNET:
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Aftonbladet (Stockholm, Sweden)
NAME: Aftonbladet
ADDRESS: http://www.aftonbladet.se/aftonbladet/start.html
CONTACT: Mark Comerford / +46 8 16 19 33 / mark@jmk.su.se
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED:
DESCRIPTION: This Swedish national newspaper is now online.
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Aftonposten (Oslo, Norway)
NAME: Online Aftenposten
ADDRESS: http://www.oslonett.no/home/bent
CONTACT: aftenposten@oslonett.no
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1995
DESCRIPTION: This Norwegian daily is now on the World Wide Web.
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The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
NAME: The Age
ADDRESS: http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/theage.htm
CONTACT: Sibylle Noras / snoras@theage.com.au
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: Early 1995
DESCRIPTION: Still-experimental Web page, including Melbourne tourist
info, kids' page, computer page. The Age is one of Australia's most
respected and oldest broadsheets (circ. 300,000).
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Agencia Estado (Brasil)
NAME: Agencia Estado on WorldNews OnLine
ADDRESS: http://worldnews.net/
CONTACT: John Van Zwieten / jvz@clark.net
Roberto Garcia / 301-986-1037 / sailor@clark.net
PRICE: $25 per month
LAUNCHED: February 1995
DESCRIPTION: Text of this Brasilian newspaper is available on the
WorldNews OnLine network on the day of publication. The paper may be
accessed via any World Wide Web client that supports user authentication.
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Analytica Moscow (Russia)
NAME: Weekly Press Review
CONTACT: Farzin Mirmotahari / farzin@unixg.ubc.ca
PRICE: $100/year individual; $275/year institutions (weekly briefs)
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: News Russia available through electronic mail. Offers more
than 30 Russian newspapers and magazines reviewed and summarized every
week. Publications include: "24"; Birzheviye Vedomosti (Official
bulletin of the Stock Market); Business MN (Moscow News); Business
World; Commersant (weekly); Commersant Daily; Ecotass; Ekonomika i
zhizn; Finansoviye Izvestiya (supplement to Izvestia); Izvestiya;
Komsomolskaya Pravda; Krasnaya Zvezda; Kuranty; Lesnaya Gazeta
(newspaper of the Lumber industry); Literaturnaya Gazeta; Megapolis
Express (weekly); Mirovaya Ekonomika; Moscow News (Moskovskie
Novosti); Nezavisimaya Gazeta; Novaya Yezhednevnaya Gazeta;
Obschaya Gazeta; Politicheskoe Obozrenie (supplement to
Yezhednevnaya Gazeta); Pravda; Promyshlennaya Gazeta (supplement to
Rossiiskie Vesti); Rossiiskaya Gazeta; Rossiiskie Vesti; Rossiya
(weekly); Segodnia; Stolitsa (weekly); Trud; Vek (weekly); and Zavtra
(formerly called Den').
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Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, Arizona, USA)
NAME: tba
ADDRESS: tba
CONTACT: Walt Nett, StarNet editor / 602-573-4175 / wnett@indirect.com
Bob Cauthorn, director of new technologies/ 602-573-4135 / cauthor@primenet.com
PRICE: tba
LAUNCHED: First quarter 1995
DESCRIPTION: The Arizona Daily Star's on-line edition, which will be
a World Wide Web-based service, is in the early stages of development.
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Arizona Republic (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
NAME: NBA All-Star Weekend Page
ADDRESS: http://www.primenet.com/~hontzd/allstar.html (TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE)
CONTACT: Howard Finberg / 602-271-8248 / hfinberg@pni.com
Dan Hontz / (hontzd@primenet.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: February 1995
DESCRIPTION: This is the first use of Phoenix Newspapers' World Wide Web site;
an NBA All-Star package.
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Aspen Times (Colorado, USA)
NAME: The Aspen Times
ADDRESS: http://www.aspenonline.com/clients/aspenonline/directory/times/timesindex.html
CONTACT: Loren Jenkins / 303-925-3414 / larryj@aspentimes.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: October 1994
DESCRIPTION: Content of Aspen Times weekly edition on the World Wide Web.
This is part of the Aspen Online project (Aspen Interactive Media, Inc.).
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Capital Gazette (Annapolis, Maryland, USA)
NAME: The Capital Online
ADDRESS: http://www.infi.net/capital/
CONTACT: Glenn Davis / gdavis@infi.net
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: December 1994
DESCRIPTION: The World Wide Web site, still in development, will focus on
local entertainment information in the historic port town. The Capital
Online is on the servers of InfiNet, a regional Internet access and
publishing company.
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Casper Star Tribune (Wyoming, USA)
NAME: Trib.Com
ADDRESS: http://www.trib.com/trib_home.html
CONTACT: Greg Kearney / 307-266-0570 / kearney@trib.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: August 1994
DESCRIPTION: This Web-based service sells Web pages to advertisers for $25 per
month, or $10 per month for a link to advertiser's own Web site. Includes local
and Wyoming news; many linked news sources are those of other news organizations
that post news or information resources freely on the Internet.
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Chicago Tribune
NAME: Tribune Web site
ADDRESS: http://none.coolware.com/tribune/tcohtml.html
DESCRIPTION: Experimental web page. Information about Tribune Co., new media
initiatives; links to other online newspaper services on the Web.
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China Business Journal
NAME: China Business Journal
ADDRESS: http://silkroute.com/silkroute/news/cbj/cbj.html
(this Web page offers subscription information only)
CONTACT: Wei Shyu / Fax: 212-227-8605
PRICE: $30 (U.S.) per month
DESCRIPTION: China Business Journal (CBJ) is an online daily news published 7
days a week. The subscriber can get the CBJ daily news by E-mailed on the
Internet, American Online, Prodigy etc., network service. CBJ is trying to
offer updated economic news from China to let our readers have on-time
informatIon in hand to handle business with China.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
NAME: Academe This Week
ADDRESS: gopher chronicle.merit.edu
CONTACT: Judith Axler Turner / 202-466-1000 / judith@page1.com
PRICE: Free
SUBSCRIBERS: Has some 35,000 users a week (based on top-level access)
who are reading a total of about 380,000 documents a week.
LAUNCHED: April 1993
DESCRIPTION: ACADEME THIS WEEK is a free service provided by The Chronicle
of Higher Education. Posted at noon Eastern time, U.S. each Tuesday, it
includes;
1. A guide to the news in the current week's Chronicle.
2. A calendar of events in Academe for the next two weeks.
3. A schedule of Congressional hearings of interest to the men and women of
Academe.
4. Important deadlines for fellowships, grant applications, exchange
programs, and more.
5. An almanac of facts and figures about U.S. higher education.
6. "What they're reading on campuses" -- A list of best-selling books.
7. A listing of hundreds of job openings in Academe, from the current
week's "Bulletin Board" pages of The Chronicle.
For general information send e-mail to: help@chronicle.merit.edu
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Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph (Colorado, USA)
NAME: GTOnLine
ADDRESS: http://usa.net/gazette/today/Gazette.html
CONTACT: Phil Witherow / 719-632-0182 / gazette@usa.net
PRICE: $10 per month (does not include Internet access)
LAUNCHED: September 1994
DESCRIPTION: A full newspaper on Mosaic with international, national and
local news; sports, features, entertainment and opinion sections, plus a
gateway to interesting sites on the WWW.
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Columbus Dispatch (through Columbus Freenet) (Ohio, USA)
NAME: Columbus Dispatch
ADDRESS: gopher://gizmo.freenet.columbus.oh.us:70/11/news-weather-calendar/dispatch
CONTACT: Jim Crowley / 614-461-5000 / jcrowley@freenet.columbus.oh.us
Stuart Castergine / scasterg@cd.columbus.oh.us
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: May 1994
DESCRIPTION: Service is available free (for now) on the Columbus
Freenet. At this point the editor has yet to decide exactly what
we will load. We will do some Ask the Editor deal ... The freenet itself
will start with 150 volunteers, about 15 information providers
(including Ameritech, Warner Cable and Ohio State as well as the
Dispatch), and will be offered free to the schools thanks to a $50,000
grant from the local Columbus Foundation.
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Dallas Morning News (Texas, USA)
NAME:
ADDRESS:
http://www.pic.net/tdmn/tdmn.html
CONTACT: David Maxwell / 214-977-8222 / maxwell@pic.net
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: Experimental; currently, only columns from Opinion page are posted.
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Der Standard (Vienna, Austria)
NAME: Der Standard Textarchiv
ADDRESS: http://www.derstandard.co.at/DerStandard/
CONTACT: +43-1-53170-277 / documentation@standard.co.at
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: This Austrian daily publishes parts of the paper (main foreign and
national news, as well as opinion page) on the World Wide Web.
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Detroit Free Press (Michigan, USA)
NAME: Detroit Free Press Online
ADDRESS: gopher gopher.det-freepress.com 9002
CONTACT: Rick Ratliff / 313-222-8772 / 72662.1736@compuserve.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: In addition to CompuServe, the Free Press has set up a Gopher.
Limited content, mostly public service/community resource information, how
to get in touch with Free Press staff, etc.
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Excelsior (Mexico City, Mexico)
NAME: Excelsior on WorldNews OnLine
ADDRESS: http://worldnews.net/
CONTACT: John Van Zwieten / jvz@clark.net
Roberto Garcia / 301-986-1037 / sailor@clark.net
PRICE:
LAUNCHED: Spring 1995
DESCRIPTION: Text of this Mexico City newspaper will soon be available on
the WorldNews OnLine network on the day of publication. The paper may be
accessed via any World Wide Web client that supports user authentication.
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Flint Journal (Michigan, USA)
NAME: Flint Journal on Genessee Free-Net
ADDRESS: tba
CONTACT: Mary Ann Chick Whiteside / 810-766-6343 / mcw@flintj.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: December 1994
DESCRIPTION: The papers is putting some services on the Genessee Free-Net.
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Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland)
NAME: Gazeta On-line
ADDRESS: http://info.fuw.edu.pl/gw/0/gazeta.html
CONTACT: Kacper Nowicki / kacper@fuw.edu.pl
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: Late summer 1994
DESCRIPTION: Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest daily newspaper, says
it's planning to publish its entire contents on the World Wide Web. All
articles are in Polish.
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Gazeta w Krakowie and Komputery i Biuro (Krakow, Poland)
NAME: Gazeta w Krakowie
ADDRESS: gopher://gopher.cyf-kr.edu.pl/11/info_krakow/gazeta
gopher://gopher.cyf-kr.edu.pl/11/info_krakow/gazeta_k
CONTACT: Andrzej Gorbiel / A.Gorbiel@Ga-Wyb.Krakow.PL
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: October 1994
DESCRIPTION: These are supplements to "Gazeta Wyborcza" -- the biggest
newspaper in Poland. Online are the local edition of GW,
called Gazeta w Krakowie (Krakow = Cracow is the former capitol
of Poland), and Komputery i Biuro (computer magazine).
Both newspapers are in Polish. KiB is weekly, GwK daily.
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Halifax Daily News (Nova Scotia, Canada)
NAME: The Daily News On-Line
ADDRESS: telnet cfn.cs.dal.ca (this is the Chebucto Freenet address)
(log in as guest, then look under NEWS, EVENTS AND HOT TOPICS.)
OR via WWW browser:
http://www.cfn.cs.dal.ca/Media/TodaysNews/TodaysNews.html
CONTACT: Dyan Tufts / 902-468-1222 / dnews@fox.nstn.ns.ca
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: Summer 1994
DESCRIPTION: Available 7 days a week. Features include:
-- Complete text of all local news stories, plus top stories in
Entertainment, Sports and Business, and columnists.
-- Staff cartoonist's work viewable with Mosaic/MacWeb, or downloadable
for use with external viewers..
-- A daily listing of what's happening; entertainment listings on Friday.
-- The Editor's Mail Box
-- Listserv Section: Archive of discussions between readers and
Daily News columnists.
-- Discussion area.
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Halifax Herald (Nova Scotia, Canada)
NAME: The Halifax Herald Limited
ADDRESS: http://www.herald.ns.ca
CONTACT: John MacCallum / 902-426-2840 / jmaccall@fox.nstn.ca
PRICE: Currently free (in future, full edition via subscription)
LAUNCHED: Early 1995
DESCRIPTION: The Halifax Herald Limited homepage on the WWW offers an overview
of the newspaper's various electronic services as well as NewsCentre, which
provides a snapshot of the daily paper through 8-9 articles from various
sections.
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Hartford Courant (Connecticut, USA)
NAME: The Hartford Courant
ADDRESS: http://www.atlantic.com/ctguide/news/courant/
CONTACT:
PRICE: Free
LAUNCED: January 1995
DESCRIPTION: News briefs only at this time.
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The Herald (Glasgow, Scotland)
NAME:
ADDRESS: gopher://gopher.almac.co.uk/11/herald
CONTACT: Ian Watson / tel. +44 41 552 6255 / 100072.2732@compuserve.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: With a daily circulation of about 113,000 The Herald is Scotland's
biggest selling quality broadsheet. This Gopher service contains a selection of
stories from the previous week.
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High Country News (Paonia, Colorado, USA)
NAME: High Country News
ADDRESS: http://www.aspenonline.com/dir/news.html
CONTACT: Ed Marston, publisher / 303/527-4898
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: Just some back issues of this bi-weekly newspaper available on
the World Wide Web.
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Hollis Brookline Journal (New Hampshire, USA)
NAME: Hollis Brookline Journal
ADDRESS: http://www.jlc.net/HBJ/Home.html
CONTACT: Frank Manley / Cabinet@jlc.net
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1995
DESCRIPTION: Local news from Hollis, Brookline and neighboring towns on the Web.
Also, classified ads, community calendar, etc.
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Investor's Business Daily (Los Angeles, California, USA)
NAME: Investor's Business Daily
ADDRESS: http://ibd.ensemble.com (to download software)
CONTACT: Thomas McGloin / 310-448-6000 / thomasm836@aol.com
PRICE: $20/month in U.S., available only to subscribers of print edition.
Outside U.S., $35/month (no print subscription required).
LAUNCHED: First quarter 1995 (in beta testing, 2/95)
DESCRIPTION: An Internet-based supplement to the print edition of IBD. It will
contain content from the newspaper, published online the evening before it is
printed. Requires proprietary software from Ensemble Information Systems and
a direct or SLIP/PPP connection to the Internet.
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Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)
NAME: The Irish Times Corner
ADDRESS: http://www.ieunet.ie/ois/irishtimes/index.shtml
CONTACT: Joe Breen / jbreen@irish-times.ie / tel. 6792022 ext 468
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: At this point, only sample articles from the Irish Times and
an Internet Survey Form. The newspaper also will offer an email delivery
service, primarily targeted at Irish people living abroad.
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Jersalem Post (Israel)
NAME: Jerusalem Post Electronic Service
ADDRESS: send email to jpost@zeus.datasrv.co.il for subscription
CONTACT: Nina Keren-David or Derek Fattal / jpost@zeus.datasrv.co.il
telephone 972-2-315631, or 315621, or 389527.
PRICE: $7.50 per month (minimum three months, $22.50); six months, $40
LAUNCHED:
DESCRIPTION: The Electronic Service is transmitted daily Sunday through
Thursday and comprises the day's top news stories; selected editorials,
opinion and feature articles are included throughout the week.
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The Jewish Week (New York, USA)
NAME: Jewish Week listserv edition
ADDRESS: Send email to listserver@nysernet.ORG with
"subscribe jewishweek " in body of message.
CONTACT: list owner is goodblat@nysernet.org
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED:
DESCRIPTION: Email list subscription to selections from Jewish Week.
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Jornal do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
NAME: Jornal do Brasil no WWW
ADDRESS: http://www.ibase.br/~jb/
CONTACT: Sergio Charlab / Tel: 55 21 580-7493 / charlab@ax.apc.org
PRICE: tba
LAUNCHED: 1995
DESCRIPTION: The newspaper plans to build a World Wide Web service, in
anticipation of expanded Internet service and useage in Brazil. (The above
site is experimental.)
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Journal Newspapers (Virginia/Maryland, USA)
NAME: The Journal Online
ADDRESS: http://www.infi.net/journal
CONTACT: Chris Kouba / 804-446-2991 / kouba@infi.net
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: December 1994
DESCRIPTION: An alliance between InfiNet and 17 papers owned by Journal
Newspapers, 4 papers of Capital Gazette Newspapers, and the Washingtonian
magazine. (InfiNet is owned by newspaper publisher Landmark Communications.)
The service will include local news, classified ads, lists, calendars and
other localized content; also free interactive "bulletin boards" open to
non-profit, non-commercial community associations.
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Knoxville News-Sentinel
NAME: Knoxville News-Sentinel On-Line/KNSO (Tennessee, USA)
ADDRESS: Telnet usit.net and login as knso with password knso.
Or gopher gopher.opup.org, choose The Knoxville News-Sentinel
... entry, then at the prompt login in as knso with password knso.
CONTACT: Jack Lail / 615-523-3131 / jdlail@OpUp.org
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: December 1993
DESCRIPTION: KNSO is an experimental, non-commercial news service loosely
targeted to junior high and high school students. It includes articles and
information drawn from The Knoxville News-Sentinel as well as other
sources.
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Kyodo News (Japan)
NAME: Kyodo News International
ADDRESS: http://www.toppan.co.jp/kyodo/ (Web site)
CONTACT: kinfo@wrt.com (send email to this address to request subscription
form for email service)
PRICE: $480 (U.S.) per year, email; WWW site is currently experimental (1/95).
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: Kyodo News is being distributed by electronic mail, and is
available at the Cyberpublishing Japan World Wide Web site. E-mail subscriptions
require that receiving site is not in Japan and that it has the ability to
accommodate messages of 50K. Kyodo is an English-language newswire service (like
Associated Press or Reuters) that produces about 200 newspaper articles each day
on current events in Japan/Asia -- politics, economics, culture, etc. Daily
financial news includes market updates and articles on Japanese business trends
and companies.
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Livonia and Redford Observers (Michigan, USA)
NAME:
ADDRESS:
CONTACT: Emory Daniels / 313-953-2047 / emory@oeonline.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: The newspaper offers online news as a free service, supported
by the sale of Internet access accounts.
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L'Unione Sarda (Italy)
NAME: L'Unione Sarda On-Line
ADDRESS: http://www.crs4.it/~ruggiero/unione.html
(A dynamic link is always pointing to an indexed first page of today's
newspaper at http://www.crs4.it/~ruggiero/UNIONE/oggi/COPERTINA.html)
CONTACT: Francesco Ruggiero / ruggiero@crs4.it
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: July 1994
DESCRIPTION: This is a WWW version of the newspaper. The system is being
developed, on experimental basis, as a Master thesis project.
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Miami Herald (Florida, USA)
NAME: Super Bowl home page
ADDRESS: http://herald.kri.com/
CONTACT: David Bower / 305-376-3177
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: January 1995
DESCRIPTION: The Miami Herald has launched its World Wide Web site with
news, features and tourist information for the Super Bowl. Includes a
bunch of Dave Barry columns.
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Middlesex News (Massachusetts, USA)
NAME: Middlesex News Gopher
ADDRESS: gopher://ftp.std.com/11/periodicals/Middlesex-News
CONTACT: Eric Bauer / 508-626-3800
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: September 1993
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Milford Cabinet (New Hampshire, USA)
NAME: Milford Cabinet
ADDRESS: http://www.jlc.net/Cabinet/Home.html
CONTACT: Frank Manley / Cabinet@jlc.net
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1995
DESCRIPTION: Local news from Milford and neighboring towns on the Web. Also,
classified ads, community calendar, etc.
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Moscow News (Russia)
NAME: MN Confidential
ADDRESS:
CONTACT: Vladimir Orlov or Vadim Koziulin / mosnex@sovam.com
PRICE:
DESCRIPTION: A newsletter published by Moscow News and distributed in part
via e-mail.
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Municipal Reporter (Oslo, Norway; bi-weekly)
NAME: "Kommunal Rapport" / "The Municipal Reporter"
ADDRESS: http://WWW.KR.kommorg.no
CONTACT: Micha Reisel / + 47 2294 7922 / Micha.Reisel@KR.kommorg.no
PRICE: N.A.
LAUNCHED: Autumn 1994
DESCRIPTION: Articles with html forms at end, asking for readers comments
to the article; search facility thru waisgate.
The Municipal Reporter is being set up with help from the
Norwegian Telecom Research Institute, together with a periodical
called Nature & Environment and Telecom Revue, a newspaper on telecom
developments, as demos at the Institute.
We have now installed a synchr. 64 Kbps line to the internet with a
Cisco 2500 router and are on the verge of buying a Sun Sparcstation,
all installed on our premises. We are still experimenting with the www
server, how things look in Mosaic and in Lynx, how to set up forms to
get online replies from readers about articles, or about subscriptions
etc., and how to use waisgate to search for any word in the on line
newspaper.
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Nashville Business Journal (Tennessee, USA)
NAME: Nashville Business Journal Online
ADDRESS: http://www.infi.net/nc5/nbj
CONTACT: Valeri Oliver / nbj@nc5.infi.net
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: November 1994
DESCRIPTION: Includes business news summary, calendar of business events,
Tennessee stock analysis, economic stats, etc. It is partially a vehicle to
promote subscriptions to the printed edition. Updated each Monday.
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News & Record (Greensboro, North Carolina, USA)
NAME: tba
ADDRESS: http://www.infi.net/nr/
CONTACT: Pete Fields / 910-373-7291 / pfields@nr.infi.net
PRICE: tba
LAUNCHED: November 1994
DESCRIPTION: The newspaper is marketing subscriptions to InfiNet, an
Internet provider which is working in partnership with the N&R's
owner, Landmark Communications. Local news content will be added to
the service beginning in November.
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New York Post (New York, USA)
NAME: tba
ADDRESS: tba
CONTACT: Farhan Memon / 212-815-8000
PRICE: tba
LAUNCHED: 1995
DESCRIPTION: The Post, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch, has announced that
it will unveil a home page on the World Wide Web. The service is being
developed by Delphi Internet Services, which also is owned by the Murdoch
organization.
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New York Times (USA)
NAME: tba
ADDRESS: tba
CONTACT: Henry Scott / hank@nytimes.com / 212-499-3450
PRICE: Free for now.
LAUNCHED: Early 1995
DESCRIPTION: The Times will begin posting its employment classified
ads on the Internet via The Pipeline, a New York-based Internet provider.
This is a test service, available free for 6 months. The Times says it
may expand the service to include participation by other newspapers,
and eventually may include other types of advertising and user
customization features.
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New York Times (USA)
NAME: TimesFax
ADDRESS: http://nytimesfax.com/
CONTACT: Henry Scott / hank@nytimes.com / 212-499-3450
PRICE: Free for now.
LAUNCHED: February 1995
DESCRIPTION: The daily, 8-page TimesFax is now available at this Web site, in
Adobe Acrobat format. A condensed edition of the New York Times, including
crossword puzzle. Posted each evening by midnight. Supported by advertising.
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Nezavisimaia Gazeta/Independent Newspaper (Moscow, Russia)
NAME:
ADDRESS: send email to root@nega.msk.su
CONTACT: Ilya Etingof / ilya@glosha.nega.msk.su / (095) 925-01-21
PRICE: appr. $25 US for any one section (from eight. Full newspaper
costs $200 US) per month
LAUNCHED: August 1994
DESCRIPTI0N: An electronic version of the 'Independent newspaper',
'Nezavisimaia gazeta,' in Russian (central Moscow's newspaper
engaged in politics). An electronic version includes all articles
published within a carbon copy version of 'Independent newspaper' and
consists of a number of alternating coding ASCII files packed by ARJ
archiver (appr.300KB per day). We can deliver 'Independent newspaper'
through 'SprintNet' or 'Internet' (mail mode only) networks.
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NEGA information agency under 'Nezavisimaia gazeta' (Moscow, Russia)
NAME:
ADDRESS: send email to root@nega.msk.su
CONTACT: Ilya Etingof / ilya@glosha.nega.msk.su / (095) 925-01-21
PRICE: without illustrations and publicity: $29 per month;
with illustrations and publicity: $69 per month;
NEGA daily information installments (political or economical):
$39 per month;
LAUNCHED: August 1994
DESCRIPTION: The NEGA information agency works within 'Nezavisimaia
Gazeta' and produces political and economical instalments every day
except Sunday and Monday. Only Russian edition available yet. Political
instalments includes an overview of the latest events in the political
life of Russia's regions and independent countries within xUSSR.
Economical installments includes the latest information about exchange
rates, futures, options, papers market in different regions of Russia.
NEGA produces five instalments per day at: 12:00, 14:30, 16:00, 18:30,
20:00 (Moscow time);
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Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
NAME: Pilot Online
ADDRESS: http://www.infi.net/pilot/vpls.html
CONTACT: Chris Kouba / 804-446-2991 / kouba@infi.net
Gordon Borrell / borrell@infi.net
PRICE: Free to Internet users. The newspaper's InfiNet affiliate sells
Internet access, from $10/month for 15 hours (text only) to $25/month
for 50 hours (graphical interface).
LAUNCHED: December 1993.
DESCRIPTI0N: This online supplement to the newspaper includes links
to Internet resources as well as archives of features such as movie
reviews, consumer information and other columns. Complete classified
ads are posted the night before publication; some live news is being
added this fall. Online advertising is being developed. The newspaper's
parent, Landmark Communications, has a partnership with an Internet
provider, InfiNet, to sell Internet access accounts.
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North Shore News (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
NAME: tba
ADDRESS: tba
CONTACT: Chris Johnson / chrisj@Direct.CA
PRICE: tba
LAUNCHED: March 1995
DESCRIPTION: World Wide Web site is due in March 1995.
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North Tahoe/Truckee Week (California, USA)
NAME: North Tahoe/Truckee Week Electronic Edition
ADDRESS: http://www.sierra.net/nttw/nttw.html
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: Experimental Web site. Appears to be inactive; last updated
in August 1994.
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Ottawa Citizen (through Ottawa Freenet) (Ontario, Canada)
NAME:
ADDRESS: telnet freenet.carleton.ca
log-in as guest, menu-driven system: enter # 10
CONTACT: Rick Laiken / 613-829-9100
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED:
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OutNOW! (San Jose, California, USA)
NAME: OutNOW! Alive
ADDRESS: http://www.zoom.com/outnow/
CONTACT: Chris Thomas / jct@netcom.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: November 1994
DESCRIPTION: This is a bi-weekly newspaper for gays and lesbians that has
launched a presence on the World Wide Web.
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Palo Alto Weekly (California, USA)
NAME: Palo Alto Weekly
ADDRESS: http://www.service.com/PAW/home.html
CONTACT: Bill Johnson, publisher / 415-326-8210 / paweekly@netcom.com
Marc Fleischmann / marcf@netcom.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: February 1994
DESCRIPTION: This 50,000-circulation weekly newspaper has put
its text online. Includes news, restaurant reviews, art listings,
a real estate guide, letters to the editor via email. Coming soon:
community discussion forums similar to Usenet newsgroups.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Pennsylvania, USA)/Newark Star-Ledger (New Jersey, USA)
NAME: tba
ADDRESS: tba
CONTACT: Jim Willse / catman420@aol.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: Mid 1995
DESCRIPTION: An Internet/World Wide Web service is being created jointly by the
Philadelphia Inquirer/Daily News (Knight-Ridder) and the Newark Star-Ledger,
Jersey Journal in Jersey City, and The Times in Trenton (Newhouse). Ultimately,
the companies will deliever "a new and different business offering a variety of
consumer services," according to Philadelphia Newspapers publisher Bob Hall.
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Pittston Gazette (Pennsylvania, USA)
NAME: Pittston Gazette
ADDRESS: http://www.microserve.net/microserve/pitgaz/index.html
CONTACT: amy-webadmin@ugly.microserve.net
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED:
DESCRIPTION: Has a home page menu listing typical news catagories --
headline news, town news, sports news, church news, etc. Select a link and
you get a plain text display of one or more recent stories from the paper.
Includes a set of classified ads, but with no apparent classification
scheme for the ads.
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Raleigh News & Observer (North Carolina, USA)
NAME: NandO.net
ADDRESS: telnet merlin.nando.net log in as "guest"
http://www.nando.net
CONTACT: George Schlukbier / 919-829-4500 / georges@nando.net
PRICE: $10/month unlimited use for NandO.net service; free for WWW
LAUNCHED: March 1994
DESCRIPTION: (See description in dial-up BBS section above for info
about NandO.net BBS.) WWW page features include:
--The Sport Server
--The NandO bookstore
--The NandO Entertainment Server
--The Mammoth Records home pages
--The Music Kitchen
--Samplers of The News & Observer
--Samplers of our sister publications: The Philantrophy Journal, North
Carolina Business, The Insider (daily NC legislative updates)
--A sampler of cartoons by Duane Powell
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Roanoke Times & World News (Virginia, USA)
NAME: Roanoke Times & World News
ADDRESS: http://www.infi.net/roatimes/index.html
CONTACT: Jim Ellison / jellisn@infi.net
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: December 1994
DESCRIPTION: The newspaper is marketing subscriptions to InfiNet, an
Internet provider which is working in partnership with the paper's
owner, Landmark Communications. Local news content will be added to
the service.
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San Diego Daily Transcript (California, USA)
NAME: San Diego Source
ADDRESS: http://www.sddt.com/
CONTACT: Andrew Kleske / lkeske@sddt.com
PRICE: Free
LAUNCHED: January 1995
DESCRIPTION: San Diego's daily business newspaper has a World Wide Web
site, which includes content from the various sections of the paper as
well as a nice compilation of Internet-based business resources.
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San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner (California, USA)
NAME: The Gate
ADDRESS: http://sfgate.com/
CONTACT: Jan Calvert / jan@sfgate.com / 415-777-6034
PRICE: Free for now
LAUNCHED: 1994 (experimental); commercial launch April 1995
DESCRIPTION: Both newspapers are experimenting with the World Wide Web
and have been posting some news sporadically. In experimental stage.
The Gate is the online service of the San Francisco Newspaper Agency,
the production and advertising arm of the Chronicle and Examiner.
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San Francisco Examiner (California, USA)
NAME: Electric Examiner
ADDRESS: http://cyber.sfgate.com:80/examiner/
CONTACT: Chris Gulker / gulker@aol.com / 415-777-8340
PRICE: Free for now
LAUNCHED: 1994 (experimental); commercial launch mid 1995
DESCRIPTION: A free service including Examiner content, links to resources,
special news packages, etc. Soon to include archive access, personal news
"agent" features.
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San Jose Mercury News (California, USA)
NAME: Mercury Center Web
ADDRESS: http://www.sjmercury.com/
CONTACT: Bill Mitchell / bmitch@aol.com / 408-920-5719
Barry Parr / barryparr@aol.com / 408-920-5384
PRICE: Free for basic services.
LAUNCHED: January 1994
DESCRIPTION: The Mercury, which has a service on America Online
(Mercury Center), has created an alternative service on the World Wide
Web. The Mercury has announced a partnership with Mosaic Communications
Corp. to use its server software to create the Internet version of
Mercury Center.
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San Mateo Times (California, USA)
NAME: San Mateo Times Marketplace
ADDRESS: http://www.baynet.com/smtimes/home.html
PRICE: Free
CONTACT: smtimes@baynet.com
LAUNCHED: 1994
DESCRIPTION: Top news from the newspaper; browse back issues; San Francisco
Peninsula housing listings.
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St. Petersburg Press (Russia)
NAME:
ADDRESS: http://www.spb.su/sppress/
PRICE: Free
CONTACT: Robert Farrell / Tel. +7-(812)-119-6080 / farrell@sppress.spb.su
DESCRIPTION: Weekly articles and photos from the newspaper on the World Wide
Web.
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Syracuse Newspapers (New York, USA)
NAME: Syracuse OnLine
ADDRESS: http://dataserver.syr.edu:8080/HTTPB/syronline.html
PRICE: Free
CONTACT: Jeff Weitzel, jdweitze@mailbox.syr.edu; Josh Becker,
jabecker@mailbox.syr.edu; Carlos A. Briceno, cabricen@mailbox.syr.edu;
and Drew Farris, alfarris@mailbox.syr.edu
LAUNCHED: Autumn 1994
DESCRIPTION: Syracuse OnLine is an experimental research project of The Syracuse
Newspapers and the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. The
contents of Syracuse OnLine include selected published and supporting material
from the Herald-Journal, The Post-Standard and the Herald American.
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The Telegraph (London, England)
NAME: Electronic Telegraph
ADDRESS: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
PRICE: Free
CONTACT: Ben Rooney / editor@telegraph.co.uk
LAUNCHED: November 1994
DESCRIPTION: Selected editorial content of the newspaper is posted to a
World Wide Web service 5 days a week. Will be free to anyone on the Internet
for the first 6 months, then may shift to a paid service. During free use
trial, readers are required to register online and receive a pass code to
enter the system subsequently.
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The Times Higher Education Supplement (London, England)
NAME: The Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service
ADDRESS: http://www.timeshigher.newsint.co.uk/
PRICE: Free
CONTACT: Tony Durham / tdurham@timsup2.demon.co.uk
LAUNCHED: January 1995
DESCRIPTION: The Times Higher Internet Service is an information base for news in
the higher education sector, both UK and international. The Service is provided
by The Times Higher Education Supplement, the UK's leading weekly newspaper
carrying news and features in all areas of post-compulsory education. The online
service is updated every Tuesday.
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l'Unita (Rome, Italy)
NAME: l'Unita
ADDRESS: http://www.mclink.it/unita/index.html
PRICE: Free
CONTACT: voice: (06)699961
LAUNCHED:
DESCRIPTION: In Italian. Experimental online edition.
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USA Today (Virginia, USA)
NAME: DecisionLine
ADDRESS: http://alpha.acast.nova.edu/usatoday.html
(also available at many university and Freenet sites, and on local BBS systems;
you will not be able to read it unless you have an account with the site
carrying DecisionLine.)
PRICE: Free
CONTACT: Judy Carey / 910-855-3491, x224
LAUNCHED: 1984
DESCRIPTION: Abstracts sorted by subject - Advertising, Banking and the
Economy, Business Law, Energy News, Insurance, International News, Real
Estate and Telecommunications and others.
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Vacaville Reporter (California, USA)
NAME: Reporter
ADDRESS: http://community.net/community/solano/reporter/reporter.html
PRICE: Free
CONTACT: Jim Moehrke / 707-448-2200
LAUNCHED:
DESCRIPTION: Offers no content; only electronic means of writing a letter to
the editor or submitting a press release; plus general information about the
newspaper.
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The Village Voice (New York, USA)
NAME: Village Voice on the Electronic Newsstand
ADDRESS: gopher://gopher.enews.com:70/11/magazines/alphabetic/all/village
PRICE: Free
CONTACT: Lisa J. Cooley / 212-475-3300 / coollit@echonyc.com
LAUNCHED:
DESCRIPTION: The Voice participates in the Electronic Newsstand, which publishes
the tables of contents and sample articles from member publications (mostly
magazines). The paper also is experimenting with a World Wide Web presence.
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Wall Street Journal (New York, USA)
NAME: DowVision
ADDRESS: http://dowvision.wais.net/
PRICE: $50/month (estimated)
CONTACT: Greg Gerdy / 609-520-4393
LAUNCHED: First quarter 1995
DESCRIPTION: DowVision on the Internet is a new service brought to you by Dow
Jones in collaboration with WAIS Incorporated (the service is currently in beta
test). The service will include the full text of The Wall Street Journal, Dow
Jones New Service, Dow Jones International New Services, Japan Economic Newswire,
Canada Newswire, Business Wire, PR Newswire, Investext Abstracts and Professional
Investor Report. In addition to a World Wide Web-based search interface,
DowVision also will be accessible using Ensemble Information Systems' Relevant
Personal Edition software client. The Ensemble software allows DowVision
subscribers to receive an electronic personal newspaper, downloaded over the
Internet.
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The Weekly Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg, South Africa)
NAME: Weekly eMail
ADDRESS: wmail-info@wmail.misanet.org (for subscription info) or point your Web
browser at: http://www.is.co.za/services/wmail/wmail.html
PRICE: $100 per year (group rates available)
$2 for single-issue purchase; you must have "ecash" account with DigiCash.
CONTACT: Bruce Cohen / 27 11 403-1025 / cohen@WMAIL.MISANET.ORG
LAUNCHED: April 1994
DESCRIPTION: The electronic version of the newspaper has been designed
as a limited, high-speed and cost-effective service for international
subscribers. It includes all material supplied by the Weekly Mail but
NOT material sourced from The Guardian, The Washington Post and Le Monde,
which feature as part of the hard copy version of the newspaper. The
electronic version is E-mailed each Friday to subscribers.
The format of this file is likely to change from time to time.
Subscribers will be added to a mailing list and will receive the entire
text of the paper via e-mail in Unix compressed format or Dos compressed
format (PKZIP), according to your needs. The file will also be UUENCODED
which enables us to send it across the network in binary format.
The Weekly Mail also accepts "ecash," for single-issue purchases over the
Internet.
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The Western Producer (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada)
NAME: tba
ADDRESS: tba
PRICE:tba
CONTACT: James Haggarty / 306-665-3536 / Haggarty@crocus.sasknet.sk.ca
LAUNCHED: Spring 1995
DESCRIPTION: This Canadian agricultural newspaper expects to have pages
on the World Wide Web soon.
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NEWSPAPER SERVICES ON OTHER ONLINE NETWORKS:
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Liverpool Daily Post (England)
NAME: Daily Post On.line
CONTACT: Ian Herbert / 051 227 2000
LAUNCHED: December 1994
DESCRIPTION: The Daily Post is experimenting with a service on the Tel-Me
online network, a British national online information service launched by
Phonelink. For now, the newspaper is producing a weekly online edition.
Its audience is primarily business people who use the Tel-Me network.
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MISC. ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER SERVICES:
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American Cybercasting (Ohio, USA)
NAME: Moscow News, Times of London, USA Today DecisionLine
ADDRESS: http://www.americast.com/
CONTACT: usa@americast.com / 216-498-5100
PRICE: Moscow News, $75/year; Times of London, $115/year; USA Today, $85/year.
DESCRIPTION: American Cybercasting is a marketing firm specializing in
distribution of text of many publications, mostly to the education and
government markets. It sells individual email subscriptions to these 3
newspapers.
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Clarinet Communications Corp. (San Jose, California, USA)
NAME: The ClariNet
ADDRESS: http://www.clarinet.com/
CONTACT: Brad Templeton / 800-873-6387 or 408-296-0366 / brad@clarinet.com
Roy Folk / 800-873-6387 or 408-296-0366 / rfolk@clarinet.com
LAUNCHED: 1989
PRICE: Free to most readers who have accounts with subscribing network
providers. Site subscription rates are based on number of computer users on
the subscribing network.
DESCRIPTION: An "electronic newspaper" service distributed as Usenet
newsgroups on the Internet. (Also viewable using a Web browser like Mosaic or
Netscape.) Based on wire service and newspaper syndicate feeds. Top deadline
news briefs are available free on ClariNet's web site.
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Ensemble-WAIS Inc./Relevant Personal Edition (Menlo Park, California, USA)
NAME: Relevant Personal Edition
CONTACT: Chris Krugler / 415-617-9600 / chris@ensemble.com
LAUNCHED: First quarter 1995
PRICE: Company licenses technology to publishers, who may offer the Ensemble
client software to customers for free or charge a fee.
DESCRIPTION: Ensemble creates electronic interfaces for "personal digital
newspapers." Client publishers using the "Personal Edition" software include
Investor's Business Daily and Dow Jones/DowVision. PE users will download
the day's newspaper content via the Internet, then use the PE client to
filter and read news.
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Personal Journal/Wall Street Journal (New York, NY)
NAME: Personal Journal
CONTACT: Maggy Landis, Dow Jones Business Information Systems / 609-520-4679
LAUNCHED: First quarter 1995
PRICE: N.A.
DESCRIPTION: A personalized, electronically delivered supplement to the Wall
Street Journal, containing condensed content of the newspaper plus user-
specifiable company and industry news, financial quotes, etc. Subscribers
will dial in via Sprintnet or Tymnet to retrieve the daily PJ edition, then
read it on Dow Jones' proprietary software client (Windows only, initially).
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Reuters NewMedia/Ingenius
NAME: What On Earth
CONTACT: Andrew Nibley / 212-603-3450
PRICE: Schools pay $500/year for a site license; individuals $80/year
LAUNCHED: Start of 1995-96 school year
DESCRIPTION: This is a once-a-day multimedia e-newspaper called What On Earth,
which will be piped into schools. 5 or 6 of the top news stories of the day are
rewritten by Reuters editors into 2 versions: for under 6th-grade and over
6th-grade. This is a joint venture between Reuters NewMedia and cable giant TCI.
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Rochester Business Journal (New York, USA)
NAME: NewsLink
ADDRESS: Subscribers can download viewing software and weekly electronic
editions of the paper from the Walksoft BBS (see entry below).
CONTACT: Paul Ericson / 716-546-8303 / RBJournal@aol.com
PRICE: $140/year for RBJ print subscribers; $195/year for combo print and
electronic editions.
LAUNCHED: Early 1995.
DESCRIPTION: RBJ is working with Walksoft Corp. (see item below) to create
an electronic supplement to the newspaper, based on News In Motion technology.
The e-paper is downloaded onto the subscriber's hard disk, then read off-line
using the News In Motion software client.
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Walksoft Corp. (Rochester, New York, USA)
NAME: News In Motion
ADDRESS: Use anonymous ftp to log in to nysernet.org; sample editions are
available in the "newspaper" directory. Using a Web browser, go to this
address: ftp://nysernet.org/newspaper/
CONTACT: Todd Chronis / 800-424-8250 / publisher@newspaper.com
PRICE: $9.95 per month for customers of MCI's "Friends & Family" program.
Non-MCI customers can purchase it for an additional $5 per month.
DESCRIPTION: A multimedia daily newspaper running on proprietary software.
Daily editions are downloaded and then viewed on the NIM application.
Available through MCI's Friends & Family service.
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WorldNews OnLine (Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA)
NAME: WorldNews OnLine
ADDRESS: http://worldnews.net/
PRICE: $25-$40 per month per publication subscription. (Single copies of
newspapers also available.)
CONTACT: John Van Zwieten / jvz@clark.net
Roberto Garcia / 301-986-1037 / sailor@clark.net
LAUNCHED: February 1995
DESCRIPTION: A U.S. electronic publishing service aimed at distributing
foreign newspapers and magazines over the Internet. The company plans to
publish online editions of 15 Latin American publications, including
Brazil's O Globo and O Estado newspapers and Veja and Exame magazines. In
the coming months, the company hopes to sign on publications in the
Middle East, Asia and other parts of the world. Publications will be
delivered in HTML format.
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NEWSPAPERS REPORTED TO BE WORKING ON ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER PROJECTS
OR ACTIVELY RESEARCHING ONLINE VENTURES:
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(If you have information on these, please contact Steve Outing at
outings@netcom.com)
Albany Times-Union (New York, USA)
Ann Arbor News (Michigan, USA)
Arizona Republic/Phoenix Gazette (Arizona, USA)
(contact Howard Finberg / 602-271-8248 / hfinberg@pni.com)
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio, USA)
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)
(contact: Micael Blume / Micael_Blume@ETT.se)
Daily Herald (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
(contact: John Graham / 708-870-2644 / Hawkeye130@AOL.com)
Democrat and Chronicle and Times-Union (Rochester, New York, USA)
Detroit News (Michigan, USA)
(contact: Nancy Malitz / 313-222-2283)
Fayetteville Observer-Times (North Carolina, USA)
(contact: George Frink" / obstimes@mercury.interpath.net)
Galveston County Daily News (Texas, USA)
Indianapolis Star and News (Indiana, USA)
(contact: Myrta Pulliam / 317-633-1240)
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, California, USA)
(contact: Antonio A. Prado / prado@kaiwan.com)
La Repubblica (Rome, Italy)
Lesher Communications/Contra Costa Times (California, USA)
(contact: Morgan Cartwright / MORGANC@ix.netcom.com)
North Hills News Record /Valley News Dispatch (Pennsylvania, USA)
The Olympian (Olympia, Washington, USA)
(contact: Devin Smith / 206-754-4226 / olympian@halcyon.com)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon, USA)
Sacramento Bee (California, USA)
Salt Lake City Deseret News (Utah, USA)
San Gabriel Valley Newspapers (California, USA)
(contact Mark Loundy / 818-962-8811 ext. 2235 /
70501.763@CompuServe.COM)
Sevodnya/Today (Moscow, Russia)
South Bend Tribune (Indiana, USA)
(contact: Kathleen McKernan / KathMcK@aol.com)
The Standard-Times (New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA)
(contact: Norm Cloutier / 508-979-4454 / cloutier@shore.net)
The S-T operates an experimental Web site at:
http://www3.umassd.edu/WebDev95/NCloutier/StandardTimes.HTML
Sunday Business Post (Ireland)
Times Media Limited, South Africa (Financial Mail, Business Day, The
Sunday Times)
(contact: Neil Jacobsohn / mneil@tml.co.za)
Times Union (Albany, New York USA)
Tulsa World (Oklahoma, USA)
Vancouver Sun and The Province (British Columbia, Canada)
(contact: Bernard J Hughes / bernardh@wimsey.com)
Wall Street Journal/WSJ Interactive Edition (New York, USA)
(contact: Neil Budde / budde@nrs.dowjones.com)
Waterbury Republican-American (Connecticut, USA)
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MISC./RESEARCH/RESOURCES ON ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS:
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Consultants Listing / Online Newspaper Applications
A listing of consultants specializing in electronic publishing and
online newspaper applications can be retrieved by sending a message to
majordomo@marketplace.com
Type "get online-news FAQ.e-news.consultants" in the BODY of the
message. (Exactly as typed here; the server is case-sensitive.)
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Cyberspace Development Inc.
Andrew Currie, president
3700 Cloverleaf Drive
Boulder, CO 80304 USA
Send message to info@marketplace.com
email: currie@marketplace.com
Voice: 303-938-8684 Fax: 303-546-9667
Provide consulting and software development services to
businesses interested in selling their services or products
via the Internet. Electronic publishing specialists.
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Hearst New Media Center
New York, NY 10019 USA
212-649-2375
Fax: 212-957-8524
hearst1@aol.com
The Hearst New Media Center is a digital media development facility
located at The Hearst Corporation's New York City headquarters.
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Information Design Laboratory
Roger Fidler, director
1877 Broadway, Suite 503
Boulder, CO 80302 USA
303-443-3312
Contact: Teresa A. Martin / martin2@knightridder.com or martin2@plink.geis.com
Research lab funded by Knight-Ridder Newspapers to develop
electronic newspaper of the future.
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IDL video: "The Tablet Newspaper: A Vision for the Future"
A 14-minute video presenting the Information Design Lab's vision of the portable
electronic newspaper of the future.
Price: $99 for VHS; $149 for PAL or SECAM
To order, send a message to publications@idl.kri.com or call 303-443-3312
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INES (Initiative for Newspaper Electronic Supplements, IFRA)
Anton Jolkovski, project manager
INES Media Concepts GmbH, Alsfelder Strasse 3, D-64289 Damstadt, Germany
Voice: +49 (6151) 9754-0
Fax: +49 (6151) 9754-20
100336.522@compuserve.com
INES was founded to help the newspaper industry develop electronic
publishing strategies, starting with services or products that supplement
-- not replace -- the printed newspaper. INES monitors developments in
technologies and applications that could affect its partners, analyzes
the issues involved, and informs its partners. INES services include
published reports on e-newspaper issues, a database of INES research,
a FirstClass BBS service free for newspaper partners, focus sessions,
and a showroom of electronic newspaper supplements at INES headquarters
in Darmstadt, Germany.
INES is a wholly owned subsidiary of IFRA and currently has 55 partner
newspapers worldwide. (IFRA stands for "INCA-FIEJ Research Association,"
where INCA is "International Newspaper Colour Association" and FIEJ is
Federation Internationale des Editeurs de Journaux."
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Interactive Media Lab
University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
David Carlson, director
904-846-0171
DCarlson@jou.ufl.edu
P.O. Box 118400, Gainesville, Fl. 32611 USA
Point your Web browser at http://www.jou.ufl.edu
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Interactive Publishing Alert
A monthly newsletter tracking developments in interactive
publishing and electronic media
Rosalind Resnick, publisher
305-920-5326 (voice)
305-926-7655 (fax)
rosalind@harrison.win.net
CompuServe: 71333,1473
For information, visit "gopher marketplace.com" and select
Interactive Publishing Alert option. On the World Wide Web, point a
Web browser at http://www.gate.net/~rosalind/
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Jupiter Communications
Gene DeRose, president
594 Broadway, Suite 1003, New York, NY 10012
Voice: 212-941-9252
Fax: 212-941-7376
Newsletter publisher and research firm, specializing in the online
services industry. Will publish the "Online Newspaper Report" in late
1994 or early 1995 (principal author: Steve Outing). Price: $800.
Point Web browser at http://jup.com
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Mediator/Online newspaper resource
Pira International, UK
CONTACT: Marion Spengler / marions@pira.co.uk
ADDRESS: http://mediator.pira.co.uk/index.html
We are currently setting up a WWW server for the newspaper industry as part of a
European research project called Mediator, which focuses on several trials to
test production and presentation of news using the Internet, ISDN and high speed
networks (ATM). Main partners are news agencies, photo libraries, video providers
and research centres in the UK, Denmark and Germany. At the Web site you can find
a description of the project, an electronic magazine for the newspaper industry
(Newspaper Focus Online), advertisements, information on our conference on
Electronic Newspapers in February 1995, a link to the WWW server developed by our
Danish partners and extracts from a study about the European newspaper industry.
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MISANET
Regional network of independent African newspapers. Provides physical
links between the independent newspapers of the 11 countries of
Southern Africa.
CONTACT: Bruce Cohen / 27 11 403-1025 / cohen@WMAIL.MISANET.ORG
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MIT News in the Future Consortium
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab
CONTACT: Jack Driscoll / 617-929-3026
Walter Bender / walter@media.mit.edu
Gilberte Houbart / 617-253-9787 / gilberte@media.mit.edu
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"News Box"
Associated Newspapers Ltd., England
Allan Marshall, managing director, UK Mail International
This is an electronic newspaper service and a portable digital
news book; designed to be an alternative to the morning paper.
According to an article in Wired magazine (4/94), the 4-pound
portable computer will be no larger than a hardback dictionary.
It will resemble a book, opening in the middle with a large
LCD screen on the left and a keyboard on the right. The book's
"spine" will be a radio antenna for reception of data. A 90-MB
hard drive will provide storage. Expected to hit the market in
late 1994, with street price of around $500 US.
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Newspapers Online, 1995 edition:
Price: $99 plus S+H
Available: February 1995
How to order: contact BiblioData, PO Box 61, Needham Heights, MA 02194 USA;
(617) 444-1154/Fax (617) 449-4584/email: 74722.2645@compuserve.com
Contact: Ina Champ Steiner, (617) 444-1154
Newspapers Online is a directory and search guide listing the 200
newspapers whose archives are available online in fulltext and
full-coverage on professional and consumer online services. It
also contains information on the newspapers' "electronic services"
on consumer services (like American Online, CompuServe and
Prodigy), bulletin boards and the Internet.
Newspapers Online contains detailed information about each
newspaper and includes search tips on how to search for articles
from the newspapers. Available in February 1995 for $99 plus
shipping + handling, it can be ordered directly from the publisher,
BiblioData, at PO Box 61, Needham Heights, MA 02194; Tel (617) 444-
1154/Fax (617) 449-4584; email: 74722.2645@compuserve.com.
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online-news@marketplace.com
Public Internet mailing list on electronic publishing.
To subscribe, send message to Majordomo@marketplace.com
In BODY of message:
subscribe online-news
List owner: Steve Outing, outings@netcom.com
or owner-online-news@marketplace.com
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online-newspapers@marketplace.com
Private Internet mailing list on electronic newspapers, for
newspaper professionals only.
To subscribe, send message to Majordomo@marketplace.com
In BODY of message:
subscribe online-newspapers
Please write a short desription of your professional affiliation.
List owner: Steve Outing, outings@netcom.com
or owner-online-newspapers@marketplace.com
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Online Newspaper Report
Jupiter Communications
Voice: 212-941-9252
Fax: 212-941-7376
A market research report on the online newspaper industry, to be
available in January 1995. Will include a comprehensive examination
of trends affecting the development and evolution of newspaper online
services, and profiles of numerous online newspaper ventures now
operating and under development. Principal author is
Steve Outing. Price: $800.
Watch this space for ordering information as publication date nears.
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ONline Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin-Madison
ONline Wisconsin provides local and world news and services and is
published by students of UW-Madison's journalism school.
Prof. Lewis Friedland (608) 263-7853
Ellen Berrigan (608) 263-3065
send comments to ONline-Wisc@macc.wisc.edu
Can be accessed via a WWW browser at http://fount.journalism.wisc.edu
Launched: 2/1/94
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Society of Electronic News Delivery
Anne Bilodeau, acting executive director
anneb@netcom.com
301-417-7576
This new professional association is currently offering free charter
memberships. A newsletter is coming soon, and a forum on America Online.
Other services TBA.
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"T-Leaves"
Newspaper Association of America
T-Leaves is a monthly newsletter covering new media developments and the
implications for the newspaper business. Currently, the newsletter is
free to anyone. We will probably start charging for it.
To subscribe, send your name, company and address to TLeaves@aol.com
Randy Bennett
Director, New Technologies
Randall@aol.com
703-648-1141
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The Wilt Letter
Bill Wilt, publisher
505-298-1333
Fax: 505-298-7034
BBS: 505-298-7514
wilt@rt66.com
3416 La Sala del Este, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111 USA
A monthly newsletter ($200/year) that "contains suggestions on how to set up and
maintain all electronic news, advertising, banking, commerce, communication,
education, information and entertainment systems." Wilt also publishes
"Wilt's Whole-Paragraph Apolthegms," a weekly essay on "living in an all
digital information world." ($27.34/year)
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HOW TO FIND FREE NEWS RESOURCES:
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College newspapers on the Internet / 1
Many papers can be accessed by visiting this gopher site:
gopher blick.journ.latech.edu
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College newspapers on the Internet / 2
The news server for The Daily Beacon at the University of
Tennessee-Knoxville contains a World Wide Web-based list of campus
newspapers on the Internet. Point your Web browser at:
http://ednews2.asa.utk.edu/papers.html
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The Daily News - Free Internet Sources
Sam Sternberg (samsam@vm1.yorku.ca) maintains a list of all known free
news resources on the Internet. Point your World Wide Web browser at:
http://www.helsinki.fi/~lsaarine/news.html
Sources: Research by Steve Outing, Planetary News; Jupiter Online Newspaper
Report, Jupiter Communications. Thanks also to A. Engler Anderson; David
Carlson; Jack Lail; Mark Leff; Rosalind Resnick; Sam Sternberg; Bill Wilt;
members of CARR-L, online-news and online-newspapers lists.