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> Are there any pages or resources out there on the history of on-line publishing?
> For example, did the first on-line newspapers "do-it-themselves", with
> staff hired for the purpose, or did they hand over raw material to existing
> Internet providers? Who were the first?

Internet providers? Not in 1980.

There were U.S. newspapers experimenting with online publishing on 
CompuServe fifteen years ago. The Minneapolis Star and Tribune, the 
St. Louis Post-Dispatch and several others were part of that 
experiment, which I think actually went online sometime in 1981. It 
was an issue in a 1980 strike at the S&T.

Both Knight-Ridder and the Los Angeles Times also experimented 
extensively with computer-delivered news throughout the 1980s; K-R 
lost something like 60 million dollars before shutting down its 
service.

We still have some old hands around here (and some not so old!) who 
worked on the CompuServe project. In the next month or so, Star 
Tribune Online will move upstairs to the offices once occupied by 
what was called Tri-Star Video News.
--
Steve Yelvington
Editor/Manager, Star Tribune Online, Minneapolis-St.Paul
stevey@startribune.com   SteveYelvington@ichange.com
http://www.startribune.com/online/
Voice 612-673-7229     Fax 612-673-7973

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