New Newspapers on the Web: Part 1

By: Steve Outing

As many of you know, for some time I have maintained a database of online newspaper services listing hundreds of cyberspace ventures by newspaper companies, which is part of Editor & Publisher Interactive's Web site. Keeping track of this activity has been difficult; the growth of the business has been so great that it's extremely challenging to catalog it all. For the past several weeks, I had fallen behind in updating the database, so today and in the coming days I will list here some of the new newspaper sites that have appeared on the World Wide Web recently.

Editor & Publisher is adding personnel to the effort to maintain this database, and in the near future the Online Newspaper Services Resource Directory will be totally revamped. In addition to providing more data about each online newspaper service, advanced searching and agenting capabilities will be added to the site. E&P Research, which maintains the widely used and widely respected Editor & Publisher Yearbook and other E&P databases, will be able to do a thorough job of insuring that the online services database is up to date and comprehensive. Also, we will soon add a Web form with which you will be able to easily update your listing.

The directory will be tied to the Editor & Publishers Members Network, and we will make announcements about the new and improved newspaper new media directory in the next few weeks. Much of the information will remain free, although some new data collected by E&P Research may be accessible only if you are a Members Network member.

So, for today, may I suggest that you surf the Web and check out some of these newly introduced U.S. newspaper online services. Tomorrow I'll be back with a list of services from other countries.

U.S. newspapers

* The Alpena News, Alpena, Mississippi.

* Antelope Valley Press, Palmdale, California.

* Arkansas Times, Arkansas.

* Baton Rouge Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisianna.

* Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana.

* Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, North Dakota.

* Bodega Bay Navigator, Bodega Bay, California.

* The Bulletin, Brazoria County, Texas.

* The Bulletin, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

* Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois.

* Christian Science Monitor.

* The Citizens' Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

* Colorado Daily, Boulder, Colorado.

* Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Corpus Christi, Texas (change of address since last listing).

* The Davis Enterprise, Davis, California.

* El Paso Herald Post, El Paso, Texas.

* The Gainesville Sun, Gainesville, Florida ("eclipse" electronic journal).

* Half Moon Bay Review, Half Moon Bay, California.

* The Herald, Everett, Washington.

* The Herald Journal, Logan, Utah.

* The Herald-Sun, Durham, North Carolina.

* Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii.

* Hutchinson News, Hutchinson, Kansas.

* Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Missouri.

* The Leader-Herald, Gloversville, New York.

* Little Rock Free Press, Little Rock, Arkansas.

* Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California.

* Madison County Journal, Madison County, Mississippi.

* Mammoth Times, Mammoth Lakes, California.

* Nantucket Beacon, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

* Newsday, Long Island, New York.

* Tampa Bay Tribune, Tampa Florida.

* Ogden Newspapers Inc., Wheeling, West Virginia (25 dailies online, as well as many weeklies).

* Packet Publications, chain of 19 community newspapers in central and south New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.

* Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Tributaries site added since last listing).

* The Post-Journal, Jamestown, New York.

* Reno Gazette-Journal, Reno, Nevada.

* Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia (not new, but previously not listed).

* Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington (site has been expanded since last listing).

* The Shopping News, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

* Tallhassee Democrat, Tallahassee, Florida.

* The Telegraph Herald, Dubuque, Iowa.

* Valley Scene, Appleton, Wisconsin.

* The Village Voice, New York City (major update since last listing).

* Wheeling Intelligencer, Wheeling, Nevada.

* Wheeling News-Register, Wheeling, Nevada.

* Winfield Daily Courier, Winfield, Kansas.

If your paper is not in this list and is not currently included in the Online Newspaper Services Directory, it may be because your information is sitting in a backlog of submissions. Shortly, I will be able to announce a simple way for you to update your newspaper's listing in the database. Thank you for your patience while we revamp our system for collecting this data.

An outstanding media resource

Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) reporter Mathew Ingram has created a very nice page of media-related links that he calls The High-Tech Reader. He maintains the page "purely out of personal interest," and has created an excellent resource for finding the best new media resources on the Web.

Contact: Mathew Ingram, mingram@globeandmail.ca

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