 Press Release
NewsNow.co.uk meets need for Iraq war coverage
March 20th 2003
NewsNow.co.uk has responded to the massive hunger for news about the war in
Iraq with a range of newsfeeds looking at aspects of the war.
In common with other news sites, NewsNow has noticed a dramatic rise in
traffic as a result of the outbreak of war.
In five days the traffic on the Iraq newsfeed has almost doubled every day
rising from 4,000 hits to 36,000 today.
"The war is obviously on top of everyone's minds now that hostilities have
begun. We want to make it easy for people to see how coverage is developing
and to easily see from minute to minute what is happening," said Nick
Gilbert, NewsNow Chief Executive.
NewsNow has created a whole new category of newsfeeds which are
accessible via a new dropdown menu on its portal site. These cover environment, The Bush cabinet, The Kurdish situation, humanitarian issues,
the British Labour Party, the anti-war movement and a broad newsfeed taking all
the main stories about the war itself.
"The situation in Iraq is a massive challenge for news organisations and
journalists alike. Only through the use of a news portal like NewsNow can
people compare and contrast coverage to make up their minds about what is
really going on. I hope our dedicated feeds assist people in this
process,"said Gilbert.
Newsfeeds available:
Contact Details
March 20th 2003, NewsNow Publishing Limited, London England
Background Information
NewsNow is Europe's pioneering Internet news cuttings agency and supplier of tailored,
aggregated newsfeeds.
NewsNow's customers hail from the world's PR, marketing, communications
and web design departments of SME, national and
multinational businesses and charitable organisations.
These organisations use NewsNow to gather and monitor news relevant to their company,
clients, competitors, market industry and sector. Their news feeds may be delivered to their inbox, to
their intranet or extranet or alternatively to NewsNow's secure web archive interface.
NewsNow is one of only a few companies able to offer this kind
of online monitoring. Its customers include Exxon, Rolls-Royce, AMD and Sony Computer Entertainment.
NewsNow Key Points
- Searches over 31,000+ sources in real time
- Monitors news in over 141 countries and 20 languages
- Searches most leading international, national and regional newspapers;
consumer, trade and technical titles; government press pages; press
releases; blogs, webzines, newsletters and leading underground and
alternative publications
- Offers sophisticated positional and proximity matching - the ability to
specify keywords and phrases and the relationships between them
- No expertise necessary - professional staff take care of your changing
needs
- Sources added or removed on request
- 30 day news archive
- No per-article charges
- Fixed monthly fees
- Delivery by email alert, via secure web archive interface or to
any intranet or website
NewsNow History
NewsNow was founded in 1997. It began as a news aggregation website
(www.NewsNow.co.uk) that fast became the UK's leading news portal.
Today the portal features over 2300 topics and attracts
76 million page impressions monthly.
In 1998 NewsNow began delivering tailored news feeds to customers'
websites.
In 2001, the addition of a sophisticated custom
search engine capable of full-text search enabled NewsNow to deliver
high-quality but cost-effective tailored press cuttings solutions to PR,
marketing and communications professionals of SME, national and
multinational businesses and charitable organisations.
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