Deja News Names Former N2K Executive To Vice President Of Marketing Post.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 1999-- Deborah Newman to Lead All Marketing and Advertising Efforts On Behalf of Web's Leading Destination for Discussion-Based Community Deja News The Deja News Research Service was an archive of messages posted to Usenet discussion groups, started in 1995 by Steve Madere in Austin, Texas. Its powerful search engine capabilities won the service acclaim, generated controversy, and significantly changed the perceived nature of continued adding to its cadre of successful, proven New Media executives today by naming Deborah Newman Vice President of Marketing. Ms. Newman leaves Music Boulevard Network, the online division of N2K, where she headed up marketing, advertising and sales. Prior to N2K, Ms. Newman served as Vice President of Programming/Electronic Media at Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. In 1988, Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records, Inc. for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the label , where she won numerous awards for her work with such artists as Billy Joel, James Taylor
James Vernon Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Belmont, Massachusetts. , Gloria Estefan and Wynton Marsalis Wynton Learson Marsalis (b. October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in classical music. He is also the Musical Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. . Today's announcement comes on the heels of the company's December hiring of Tom Phillips as its CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . Mr. Phillips had been President of Disney's ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Internet Ventures and ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. Internet Ventures and was co-founder of Spy magazine. Deja News (www.dejanews.com) is home to more than 80,000 Internet discussion forums. These are self-segmenting discussion communities, populated by millions of individuals organizing themselves around shared interests in order to offer advice, ask questions and relate experiences. Deja News is the Web's leading destination for discussion with approximately four million unique users generating more than 140 million page views per month. "Debbie Newman's track record speaks for itself; she knows how to gain the audience mindshare that's critical in a competitive marketplace like ours," said Mr. Phillips. "Debbie was pivotal to the success of Music Boulevard. She'll be key in fast-forwarding the new media vision we have at Deja News." "Deja News represents one of the last truly original destinations on the Web," commented Ms. Newman. "The site features compelling content in an interactive format, which gives the user an experience that's both informative and entertaining. You can look for us to make a lot more noise in 1999, accelerating the growth of our already healthy audience size." Ms. Newman will guide all marketing functions, including branding, advertising 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 , research and affiliate marketing Affiliate marketing is a method of promoting web businesses (merchants/advertisers) in which an affiliate (publisher) is rewarded for every visitor, subscriber, customer, and/or sale provided through his/her efforts. . About Deja News Inc. Deja News, the discussion network, is the Web's leading destination for discussion. Founded in 1995, Deja News provides an easy and powerful Web interface for participating in entertaining and informative discussions with people of like interests. The company's innovative technology also makes it possible to quickly search the archives of more than 80,000 discussion forums, including Deja News Member Forums, Deja Communities and Usenet newsgroups. Deja News provides discussion services to America Online, AT&T WorldNet Service, BellSouth, HotBot, Infoseek, InfoSpace, Lycos, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, The Microsoft Network, Open Text, WebCrawler, Yahoo! and ZD Net. Deja News is free to users and may be found on the Web at www.dejanews.com. Deja News is a registered trademark of Deja News Inc. All other names are the trademarks of their respective companies. |
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