Subject: Re: more info about NCN - where? From: LeeRozen@seattle-pi.com (Lee Rozen) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 17:43:19 -0800

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"WA%GURU1.decnet"@sda-ats.ch (Chris J. Walther, SDA/SGN, Berne) wrote:

>According to wire reports of today, eight of the largest newspaper
>companies in the U.S. have announced a joint venture called 
>New Century Network which shall help to drive the industry
>into broader use of on-line services and other forms of electronic
>publishing.
>
>Well, as I am sitting on the other side of the big pond, I 
>would just appreciate an e-mail address where I can request 
>more details regarding this initiative. Can anybodyy help?
>
>TIA
>	-- ChrisW
>
>CHRIS J.      Swiss News Agency (SDA/ATS), Laenggass-Str. 7, CH-3001 Berne
>WALTHER       voice: +41 (31) 309 3456/3333 -- FAX: +41 (31) 302 8238
>Berne         e-mail: wa@sda-ats.ch (other addresses available upon request)
>Switzerland   URL: under construction
>
So far, the information seems to be quite closely held among a group of new 
media executives at the companies involved. More information will be 
forthcoming Sunday afternoon in New Orleans at a special meeting of 
newspaper publishers attending the NAA convention. 

In the meantime you might try Peter Winter, temporary head of New Century 
and a Cox executive at apts44a@prodigy.com or Bob Ingle, Vice President/New 
Media, Knight-Ridder Inc., and the godfather of Mercury Center, at 
Bob_Ingle@aol.com. 
They seemed to be the most-quoted today in news reports. 

I'm curious whether this intends to be an operating online service or more 
of a service bureau, and whether they hope to create de jure or de facto 
standards for the online newspaper community.
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Lee Rozen, AME & Assistant to the Publisher, New Media
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 101 Elliott Ave. W.
P.O. Box 1909, Seattle WA 98111-1909
Fone: 206.448.8307     E-mail: LeeRozen@seattle-pi.com
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