PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release
August 28, 1998
For more information, contact:
Sue Levin (415) 221-4625 or Email Contact
Cathy Haibach (312) 222-5697 or chaibach@tribune.com
KNIGHT RIDDER/TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE'S NEW WEEKLY COLUMN 'VIRTUAL WOMAN' RESOURCE FOR ONLINE WOMEN
Starting September 14, Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service will offer a new weekly column with a focus on helping women maximize their use of the Internet. The Virtual Woman: A Woman's Weekly Guide to Cyberspace is created by WWWomen Inc., whose WWWomen.com (www.wwwomen.com) is the premier search directory for women online.
Each week, The Virtual Woman answers a variety of questions from women about resources that might be helpful to them on the Web, from home and garden to career and money topics. Columns with a business focus will alternate weekly with columns covering lifestyle issues.
"We're seeing a growing need from our news subscribers for columns and information that help people find their way around the Web," said Mike Duggan, KRT's managing editor. "The Virtual Woman takes an interesting angle -- it's like a 'Dear Abby' feature with a cybertwist."
WWWomen Inc. is best known for its flagship directory, WWWomen.com, offering the most comprehensive collection of links to female-focused Web sites. WWWomen.com has been chosen as one of the best destinations for women online by publications such as U.S. News and World Report, Glamour Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle.
"We thought that what we do every day, collecting links with a female focus, put us in perfect position," said Sue Levin, WWWomen Inc.'s president. "We know what women are asking for and we know what's out there. The Virtual Woman column gives us an opportunity to give women (and men, too) an offline hard-copy venue where they can learn about extremely useful Web sites. Our relationship with Knight Ridder/Tribune gives us the distribution engine to get this column to an audience that can really use it."
About WWWomen Inc.
Founded in 1995 and launched in early 1996, WWWomen Inc. quickly became the premier search directory for women online by offering an extensive Yahoo-like directory of links relevant to women. WWWomen.com also offers an active community of message boards on more than 75 topics of interest to women.
Since its inception, WWWomen Inc. has expanded its female-focused offerings to include BannerWomen (www.bannerwomen.com), the leading advertising banner network for women online, and Bridges Online (www.bridgesonline.com), a career networking resource for professional women in Northern California. The company's headquarters are in San Francisco.
About Knight Ridder/Tribune
Washington-based Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, a partnership between Knight Ridder and Tribune Co., is the No. 1 alternative news service in the United States. With more than 350 newspaper clients, KRT has a potential daily readership in excess of 30 million and a potential Sunday readership in excess of 35 million. KRT contributors include The Dallas Morning News, New York Daily News, The Providence Journal-Bulletin, The Seattle Times, The Gazette (Colorado Springs) and The Orange County Register. For more information on KRT and its products and services, visit www.krtinfo.com.
KRT is marketed worldwide by Tribune Media Services, a leading provider of information and entertainment products to newspapers and electronic media. For more information on TMS and its products and services, visit www.tms.tribune.com.
