Bridge to Provide Financial News to ScreamingMedia

Posted on March 14, 2001

Bridge Information Systems, a provider of financial information services, has announced an agreement with ScreamingMedia, a provider of content solutions, to syndicate its financial news and proprietary content.

``We believe BridgeNews' reliable content will immediately find a loyal audience among ScreamingMedia's best-of-breed clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to portals, websites and wireless networks,'' said Angus Robertson, Executive Vice President, BridgeNews. ``ScreamingMedia's clients will have the added benefit of selecting BridgeNews NOW modules, integrating BridgeNews seamlessly into their web and wireless platforms.''

``We are pleased to add BRIDGE to the over 3,000 publications in our network,'' said Kevin Clark, CEO of ScreamingMedia. ``By partnering with BridgeNews, our clients will have access to a premier source of breaking news, analysis, statistics, forecasts, calendars and summaries.''

BridgeNews "Now" modules offer flexible presentation including prioritized news headlines with abstracts offering hyperlinks to full stories; a prioritized listing of headlines with links to full stories; or a chronological order display of the latest items in each "Now" module. BridgeNews, the news gathering arm of Bridge, generates over 8,000 news items each day with its editorial staff of 600 in more than 100 locations around the world.