Moscow Times now online (fwd)

[Devin P Browne]

One other FYI

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 21:52:23 -0500
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Subject: Moscow Times now online

                                    x-post from FSUmedia


      The Times Goes Electric With New Web Site
                  THE MOSCOW TIMES

                 www.moscowtimes.ru

The Moscow Times took a big step into cyberspace Tuesday
with the launch of its new web site, giving readers around
the world same-day access to the paper.

The site, which features all the information in the daily
paper along with some added features, is located at
www.moscowtimes.ru.

The web site will be a valuable tool for readers of the print
edition of The Moscow Times who are away from Moscow
but would still like to keep abreast of events as they
unfold. Using the web site, it will now be possible to read
The Moscow Times from anywhere in the world.

The site will be updated by 2 a.m. Moscow time five times a
week with fresh information from the daily print issue of
The Moscow Times. This will allow readers in the United
States and Europe to read the day's news from Moscow
even before the newspaper is on the streets in Moscow.

The web site will also offer users complete and convenient
access to The Moscow Times archive, giving researchers,
businesspeople, journalists and anyone else with an
interest in Russia access to our electronic database which
contains 80,000 stories published in The Moscow Times since
the start of 1994.

Stories on the entire range of business, politics, culture and
social issues covered by The Moscow Times can be accessed
using simple word searches.

Bill Fick, author of the paper's biweekly "Web Watch"
column and director of Samovar Internet Consulting,
collaborated with The Moscow Times editorial staff to
develop the web site.

In marketing the site, The Moscow Times has tried to
balance the conflicting goals of covering costs and bringing
our information to as wide a circle of readers as possible.
As a result, the site is divided into some free services and
some services which will be available for a modest
subscription fee.

Free services available to all users include access to short
introductions of all the stories that appear in the paper, the
weekly MT Out entertainment listings and classified and job
opportunities advertising.

Access to the rest of the web site will be restricted. Only
web site subscribers will have access to the full versions of
the stories in the paper as well as unlimited access to the
archive.

Initially, users will receive a free two-week preview of the
whole web site. After that, unlimited six-month access to
the site will cost $40.