Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 15:53:03 -0700 From: Majordomo@marketplace.com Subject: message body: send online-news online-newspapers.list -- ====================================================================== COMMERCIAL ONLINE NEWSPAPER SERVICES: ====================================================================== 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 ====================================================================== LOCAL DIAL-UP BBSs: ( "*" indicates BBS accessible via Internet) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * 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 --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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 --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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) --------- * 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. --------- 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. --------- 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) --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- Naples Daily News (Florida, USA) NAME: Daily News Online DIAL-UP: CONTACT: Corbin Wyant / 813-262-3161 PRICE: Free LAUNCHED: September 1994 --------- Newsday (New York, USA) NAME: Newsday Online DIAL-UP #: 516-454-6959 CONTACT: Fred Tuccillo / 516-843-2020 PRICE: Free LAUNCHED: --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- * 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. --------- 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 --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- * 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. --------- * 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. --------- * 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. ====================================================================== SERVICES ON AMERICA ONLINE: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PRICE for all: $9.95/month includes 5 hours; then $2.95/hour ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------- Chicago Tribune (Tribune Co.) (Illinois, USA) NAME: Chicago Online KEYWORD: TRIB CONTACT: Gene Quinn / 312-222-4340 / genequinn@aol.com LAUNCHED: 1992 --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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.) --------- 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) --------- 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. --------- 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.) --------- 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. ====================================================================== SERVICES ON PRODIGY: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Allentown Morning Call (Pennsylvania, USA) KEYWORD: CONTACT: LAUNCHED: tba DESCRIPTION: Paper has stated its intention to build a service on Prodigy. --------- 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) --------- Austin American-Statesman (Texas, USA) KEYWORD: CONTACT: LAUNCHED: tba DESCRIPTION: Paper has stated its intention to build a service on Prodigy. --------- 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. --------- Dayton Daily News (Ohio, USA) KEYWORD: CONTACT: LAUNCHED: tba DESCRIPTION: Paper has stated its intention to build a service on Prodigy. --------- 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. --------- Greenwich Time/Stamford Advocate (Connecticut, USA) KEYWORD: CONTACT: LAUNCHED: tba DESCRIPTION: Papers have stated their intention to build a service on Prodigy. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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) --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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.) --------- Winston-Salem Journal (North Carolina, USA) KEYWORD: CONTACT: LAUNCHED: tba DESCRIPTION: Paper has stated its intention to build a service on Prodigy. --------- Contact at Prodigy: Jeff Moore / jeff@prodigy.com / 914-448-8842 ====================================================================== SERVICES ON COMPUSERVE: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. ====================================================================== SERVICES ON DELPHI: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. ====================================================================== SERVICES ON AT&T INTERCHANGE: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------- 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. ====================================================================== SERVICES ON THE INTERNET: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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). --------- 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. --------- 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'). --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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.). --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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 --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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.) --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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 --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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); --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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: --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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 --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. ====================================================================== NEWSPAPER SERVICES ON OTHER ONLINE NETWORKS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ====================================================================== MISC. ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER SERVICES: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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). --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. ====================================================================== NEWSPAPERS REPORTED TO BE WORKING ON ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPER PROJECTS OR ACTIVELY RESEARCHING ONLINE VENTURES: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (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) ====================================================================== MISC./RESEARCH/RESOURCES ON ELECTRONIC NEWSPAPERS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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. --------- 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 --------- 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." --------- 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 --------- 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/ --------- 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 --------- 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. --------- 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 --------- 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 --------- "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. --------- 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. --------- 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 --------- 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 --------- 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. --------- 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 --------- 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. --------- "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 --------- 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) ====================================================================== HOW TO FIND FREE NEWS RESOURCES: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- College newspapers on the Internet / 1 Many papers can be accessed by visiting this gopher site: gopher blick.journ.latech.edu --------- 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 --------- 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.