[0] Medialink Strengthens Southwest Sales with Key Promotions; Online News and Webcasting Drives Growth.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 In response to increasing client demand in Texas and the Southwest, Medialink (Nasdaq:MDLK) announced it has promoted Marc Newman to Associate Vice President, Special Services, based in Dallas. Medialink is the world's leader in enabling corporate communicators and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most professionals to harness the power of streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. , webcasting, broadcast television, radio, and print, and to assess the impact of those efforts. He opened the Medialink Dallas Bureau in 1995, and is responsible for all activities within the South Central and South Western Regions of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Newman has also been involved with the development and launch of Newstream.com, the multimedia Internet portal linking corporations with 6,000 online news sites. Newman has launched online initiatives for clients, including webcasting, virtual press tours, still photography for the Web, and internal intranet platforms in the technology, transportation and healthcare sectors. Newman came to Medialink in 1988 after four years in broadcast journalism Broadcast journalism refers to television news and radio news, as well as the online news outlets of broadcast affiliates. . He began as a beat reporter for L.I. News Tonight, WLIW-TV and WLIG-TV from 1985 to 1987. Newman received awards for his television reporting from The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. and the Coalition for Fair Broadcasting. In 1988 he was hired by Medialink as technical coordinator The American Radio Relay League Technical Coordinator (TC) is a section-level official appointed by the Section Manager to coordinate all technical activities within the section. and Newman became a New York-based Account Manager in 1989, Southern Regional Manager in 1991, and in 1993 as General Manager/Southern Region. Also in Dallas, Heather Williams was promoted to the role of account specialist. She will be building her client base by working closely with public relations firms in the southern region. She has worked in the art department at the children's show "Barney and Friends," Dallas, TX, in casting both at Slater Casting, Santa Monica, CA, and on the Columbia Tri-Star feature film "Dancer Texas, pop. 81." She also worked as assistant to the publicist at "Days of our Lives" Burbank, CA. She joined Medialink in November 1998 as account coordinator. Williams graduated with a B.S. in Television from Texas Christian University Texas Christian University, at Fort Worth; Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); coeducational; opened 1873 at Thorp Spring, chartered 1874 as Add Ran Male and Female College. It assumed its present name in 1902 and moved to Fort Worth in 1910. in Fort Worth. 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