Business Wire makes photos available on the World Wide Web and announces expanded coverage to 500 newspapers.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1996--Business Wire announced Monday that BW PhotoWire photos are now available on its home page on the World Wide Web (http://www.businesswire.com). The company also announced that it has expanded its delivery via the AP PhotoExpress network to 500 media subscribers, continuing its rank as the leading media relations wire service distributor of photos. "Business Wire is the first and only media relations wire service to make photos available on its own home page via the World Wide Web," said Cathy Baron Tamraz, senior vice president of Business Wire. "Photos are included on our interactive web page in conjunction with all photo distribution packages. Coupled with our expanded coverage via AP PhotoExpress and our Bulletin Board System (BBS (1) (Bulletin Board System) A computer system used as an information source and forum for a particular interest group. They were widely used in the U.S. ), this gives Business Wire the most sophisticated and enhanced photo delivery system in the nation." Business Wire is the most comprehensive supplier of news 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 photos to the media worldwide. For more than a year, the company has had an international joint marketing agreement with Newscom, a Times-Mirror company, to deliver digital photos to hundreds of newspapers in Europe Lists of newspapers for each country in Europe.
Thousands upon thousands of domestic photo editors now have print-ready photos at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. if they access the Business Wire home page. With the worldwide reach of the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises number of editors able to access photos reaches into the tens of thousands. Photos on Business Wire's home page are created for media use, are print-ready and cover a variety of industries and topics. They are free for editorial use; however, resale or private use is strictly prohibited. Recent photos have included top-level corporate management changes, sports events such as the Olympics, newly launched products (including new web sites) and other newsworthy items. All BW PhotoWire photos can be accessed from Today's News on the Net(R). If a news release has an accompanying photo, a camera icon is displayed next to the headline, which links to the relevant photo and caption. BW PhotoWire also has its own icon on the home page which links to the current day's photo page. Photos are archived for two months. A search utility also is available. Print-ready photos can be downloaded by clicking on a low-resolution "thumbnail" image of the photo. Captions also can be downloaded. Business Wire is a leading source of news on major U.S. corporations, including Fortune 1000 and NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on companies. The company electronically disseminates full-text news releases for public and investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. professionals simultaneously to the news media, the Internet, on-line services and databases, and the investment community worldwide. The company has 17 offices throughout 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. and affiliates around the world. CONTACT: Business Wire Michael Lissauer or Cathy Baron Tamraz, 212/752-9600 Terry Vitorelo, 415/986-4422 |
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