By: Staff Reports Top Story: KnightRidder.com teams with Switchboard
Trends & Bytes: Web redesign news
e-people: WSJ.com's Kennedy returns to the AP
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TOP STORY
KnightRidder.com teams with Switchboard
KnightRidder.com of San Jose, Calif., announced that its Yellow Pages, White Pages, e-mail directories, and mapping services will be powered by Switchboard Inc. of Westboro, Mass. The Switchboard services will be used by Knight Ridder sites and by participating affiliates in Knight Ridder's Real Cities network.
As part of the deal, Switchboard and KnightRidder.com will sell display advertising in customized directories and share those revenues. Switchboard will also build and host Web sites for local merchants who purchase those services. And Switchboard will offer customer management tools to assist in sales efforts for the KnightRidder.com sites.
Dan Finnigan, president of KnightRidder.com, said local commerce is "a keystone of growth strategies for the network."
Previously, some Knight Ridder sites ran Yellow Pages powered by Zip2, a division of MyWay.com, or by InfoUSA.com.
Switchboard also powers Web site directories for The New York Times Co., Advance Internet, and The Indianapolis Star.
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TRENDS & BYTES
Web redesign news
The Los Angeles Times and The Globe and Mail of Toronto have redesigned their Web sites in recent days.
The new latimes.com is familiar but has a simpler interface. The change was prompted by the site's conversion to Tribune Interactive's Oxygen publishing system. In a note to readers on the site, latimes.com Editor Richard Core says the new production system will allow the site to publish news faster and to include more graphics, photos, and multimedia features.
The site's Hunter feature has been replaced by MyNews, which allows users to choose preset topics or build their own. MyNews will then dig through seven days of stories from the Times to build customized news collections for users, who must register to get this feature.
In Toronto, globeandmail.com has also streamlined navigation and added a new index page that includes all stories published each day. Another new page includes links to all of the paper's editorial columnists.
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NYTimes.com offers European job info
With Web editions come international readers, so The New York Times on the Web has partnered with the London-based StepStone, a European online career portal.
The agreement provides StepStone users with access to career opportunities listed on NYTimes.com. The NYTimes.com users get access to opportunities in 15 European Union countries as well as Norway, Switzerland, and India.
The NYTimes.com career site includes the option to search the international listings provided by StepStone.
"StepStone is an ideal vehicle for NYTimes.com to reach Europeans who are increasingly looking for opportunities and information on careers in the United States," said Jason Krebs, vice president of sales for NYTimes.com.
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Deadline approaches for Online Journalism Awards
The deadline for the 2001 Online Journalism Awards is Monday, July 16. For more information, visit http://www.onlinejournalismawards.org.
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On the paid Web site front
Last week, we reported that the Albuquerque (N.M.) Tribune has restricted access to its Web site to print subscribers and to those who purchase online-only memberships.
The New Mexico paper isn't the first to charge for access to its online edition. The Lewiston (Ore.) Morning Tribune has been charging since December 1999. The site has about 250 paid online-only subscribers in addition to 5,000 print subscribers who have requested a password for the online version.
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e-PEOPLE
James M. Kennedy, executive director of product planning for Wall Street Journal Online and a former Associated Press executive, returns to the news cooperative as director of strategic planning. He directed the launch of the AP's multimedia news service for members in 1996.
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