AOL's Digital City New York and Newsday Announce Partnership.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 1999-- Newsday to Provide Local News, Sports and Special Features Content to Digital City's New York's Newly Launched Area Dedicated to Long Island America Online's Digital City, the nation's No. 1 local content network and interactive community guide, and Newsday, the award-winning source of Queens and Long Island news, today announced a content partnership. Under the agreement, Newsday and newsday.com, the newspaper's Web site, will be the featured information provider on Digital City New York's newly-launched Long Island news and sports areas. In addition, Newsday will provide in depth coverage of breaking news and special events. Users on both AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. and the Web can access the reliable local news, sports and special features supplied by Newsday on America Online See AOL. at Keyword: Newsday or Long Island, on the Web at ny.digitalcity.com/newsday or ny.digitalcity.com/longisland, and on the local channels of CompuServe, Netcenter, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom Internet and AOL.com. "Digital City New York is a vibrant online community, providing an ultimate resource for New Yorkers in every borough looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. local information on what to do and where to go in their community," said Paul DeBenedictis, president of Digital City, Inc. "Newsday's Pulitzer prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. news coverage and lively features on Long Island and Queens complement Digital City New York's in-depth local content, that our members use everyday." "This is an exciting opportunity for both Newsday and AOL's Digital City" said Howard Schneider, Newsday managing editor and vice president content development. "This links the premier source of news and advertising on Long Island with the leading local content provider on the Net." Newsday.com includes the online edition of Newsday plus updated, news, weather, traffic and stocks, searchable classified ads and directories. It also features Long Island and Queens A to Z comprehensive resource and reference guides, and links to Long Island: Our Story (www.lihistory.com) and Long Island and Queens: Our Future (future.newsday.com) projects. Newsday serves Long Island and Queens as the premiere source of local news and comprehensive national and international reporting. Newsday has earned 16 Pulitzer Prizes Pulitzer Prizes, annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. , most recently for the crash of TWA TWA Time-weighted average, see there Flight 800. Newsday is a subsidiary of Times Mirror, a Los Angeles-based news and information company that also publishes the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , The Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun Daily newspaper published in Baltimore, Md., U.S. It was begun as a four-page penny tabloid in 1837 by Arunah Shepherdson Abell, a journeyman printer from Rhode Island. and other newspapers; a wide array of professional information for the legal, health sciences, aviation and training markets; and consumer magazines. Digital City, Inc., the nation's largest and the Internet Online's most popular local city resource and interactive community guide, reaches more than 4 million people every month according to Media Metrix. Digital City provides an array of interactive products in 60 cities and delivers locally relevant news, community resources, entertainment and commerce in a dynamic and easy-to-use format. Available on America Online at Keyword: Digital City, on the web at www.digitalcity.com, on CompuServe, Netcenter and AOL.com, Digital City combines useful local information, expert reviews, and the personal contributions of the people who use the service to help residents get the most from their communities. Based in Vienna, VA, Digital City, an AOL Studios business, is owned primarily by America Online and Tribune Company. |
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