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Friday, April 30, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Miller Freeman Inc. Acquires CMP Media United News & Media plc and CMP Media I nc. have announced the signing of a definitive agreement by which United will purchase CMP, a leading US technology media company. CMP will become a division of Miller Freeman Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of United News & Media. "This acquisition will position Miller Freeman as one of the leading business media groups serving the U.S. high-tech market, and it is also a major step in our strategy to become a leading online business-to-business media provider," said Miller Freeman Inc. President and CEO Don Pazour. "We believe the synergies between our two organizations will prove to be an excellent fit." CMP and Miller Freeman have highly complementary skills and market positions. CMP has a worldwide network of leading brands, including 10 major high-tech publications in the U.S. such as InformationWeek, Computer Reseller News (CRN) and Electronic Engineering Times (EET). It also operates 40 leading online sites, such as TechWeb, under the CMPNet brand. In addition, CMP has a number of information-rich database, conference, research and product-testing businesses. "I am extremely proud of CMP's growth over more than a quarter of a century," said Michael Leeds, President and CEO of CMP Media Inc. "Now we will benefit from the diverse assets of Miller Freeman as our products and people contribute to the fulfillment of Miller Freeman's mission to become the fastest-growing and most respected provider of business-to-business information and media in North America. I am delighted that CMP is joining another company that, like us, strives to create a terrific work environment and is a real contributor to the communities it lives in." Dolan Media Acquires New Orleans Publishing Group Dolan Media Company has acquired New Orleans Publishing Group, a business information company that publishes weekly New Orleans CityBusiness and 30 other highly focused business titles serving southern Louisiana. William M. Metcalf, Jr., the company's founder and controlling shareholder, will remain as a consultant to New Orleans Publishing Group (NOPG) and will become a shareholder in Dolan Media. James P. Dolan, president and chief executive of Dolan Media, said all of the business publications' employees will be retained. He also said that effective immediately Carolyn McLellan, a veteran New Orleans media executive, was appointed president and publisher of NOPG and will be responsible for all Dolan Media activities in Louisiana. McLellan previously was president and chief operating officer of NOPG. McLellan said NOPG's operations would remain in current facilities at Heritage Plaza, 111 Veterans Boulevard in Metairie, LA. PBS Online's TeacherSource Search Powered by MediaSeek PBS TeacherSource, PBS Online's neighborhood for preK-12 educators, is the first website to correlate its classroom activities to 46 sets of national and state curriculum standards, thanks to the patented technology of MediaSeek(R) Technologies Inc. To locate a specific resource among PBS TeacherSource's extensive inventory of more than 1,200 lesson plans, teachers simply identify a grade level and topic and are presented with a suggested list of relevant lesson plans and activities, many of which are designed for use with educator-preferred classroom television programs from PBS such as The American Experience, Nova, Nature and Scientific American Frontiers. Working from their refined list, teachers can then choose the most appropriate resources for their needs and immediately correlate them to an ever-growing pool of widely used national and state curriculum standards. As PBS Online expands its resource inventory each week, it uses MediaSeek's correlation tool, Resource Correlator 2.0, to keep its service for teachers up to date. "Teachers have long praised PBS and its member stations for providing the best television and Online resources for the classroom," said Cari Ladd, PBS director of Online education. "With MediaSeek's innovative search technology, teachers are now cheering even louder because they will be able to correlate these lesson plans to state and local education standards quickly and conveniently." Latimes.com Announces Redesigned Business Section The Los Angeles Times has improved its website for its business readers. Working with Reality Online, a Reuters company, latimes.com has redesigned and enhanced its Business section with news updates every two minutes plus added breadth, depth, and new functionality. There's better integration of news and information, according to Leah Gentry, new media editorial director for latimes.com. "We've made it easier for our readers to customize searches and get the information they want instantly from a bigger content base," Gentry explained. "We listen to our business readers and these improvements reflect our response to their wants and needs." Business readers can now get more news and information each day for their financial planning. The latimes.com Business section provides users access to a full-featured portfolio tracker for stocks, mutual funds, and market indices through Reuters Investor, developed by Reality Online. Plus, users can receive e-mailed portfolio status updates, charts, and graphs of holdings as well as multiple layouts for viewing and sorting portfolio data. In addition to enhanced tools, the Business section has grown its coverage of key areas of interest, including continuous updates on both technology and California businesses. And a newly implemented design and structure allows users to move easily between sections and features. ISLIP Media Launches World's First Video and Audio Search Engine ISLIP Media, Inc., a developer and supplier of software, systems and services to create searchable, Web-based video and audio media sites, this week publicly launches MediaSite.net, a website offering search, preview and purchase of Online video and audio content. MediaSite.net is the only video website with searchable stock footage, news and information, and training and education content using the speech, language and images within the content itself and V-commerce(video E-commerce) ordering and billing. MediaSite.net does not own video content, but is a clearinghouse offering added value for content providers. Content placed on MediaSite.net is enhanced for Power Search using MediaSite.net segmentation, speech, language, image and annotation processing, and becomes a direct revenue source for providers. MediaSite.net is hosted on a high-capacity network provided by Lucent Technologies. The site also uses the RealNetworks G2 Player and is compatible with Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. "Video cataloging and search technology will help users derive better use of video content and management of content overload, somewhat akin to how current day search engines help us sort out what is useful to us on the Web," said Sujata Ramnarayan, industry analyst, Gartner Group's Dataquest. Unlike Web sites that provide a few fixed video clips or text-only summaries, on MediaSite.net users can search through hundreds and thousands of hours of content and instantly receive video clips. For example, users search with keywords or use MediaSite.net Power Search to select visual and content-based criteria, such as image, color, camera angle, category, reporter, date, description and location to immediately search with pinpoint accuracy. Users can quickly skim through ranked results and see free previews of storyboards, stream video clips to their desktop, place choices in a shopping basket, and purchase or store the content Online. Around the Web Amazon.com Loss Widens on Increased Expenses BookWire 1999 Edgar Awards Announced Fox News Hollinger Makes Investment in Topjobs.net Media Central Morris Succeeds Gottlieb at NAA Editor & Publisher NYT Bans Cigarette Ads Media Central Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
