Piedmont Mass Communications Department


CNN NewsSource

Jim LeMay, Deputy Managing Editor of CNN, serves as an adviser to the mass comm department at Piedmont College	CNN Newsource Since January, 2005, mass comm students use CNN Newsource to obtain up to the minute news reports from around the world for use in their news broadcasts. Former CNN Executive Stacy Simon, now a mass comm professor at Piedmont, assists students in their news broadcasts CNN Newsource Sales and CNN.com Expand Local Link Program, Local Television Stations' Web Sites Benefit January 22, 2001 CNN Newsource Sales will begin to offer its more than 650 affiliates portions of the Newsource video feed to use on local stations' Web sites. Susan Grant, president of CNN Newsource Sales, Inc., made the announcement today. CNN Newsource affiliates will be able to post video from the CNN Newsource feed beginning in early March. "We are extremely excited about expanding our Newsource relationship to affiliates' Web sites," said Grant. "Our affiliates rely on us for quality resources for their newscasts and now they can use that same quality resource for their Web product." CNN.com is also expanding the local pages to better represent the affiliate base and drive more traffic to affiliate Web sites. In early March, CNN.com's Local section will begin posting content from local affiliate Web sites. CNN.com's Local section currently provides links to the home pages of more than 200 CNN Newsource affiliates that are participating in the Local Link program. These Local Link affiliates each have a custom co-branded news page that includes national and world news, business, entertainment, sports and feature summaries provided by CNN.com. The first group of affiliates to benefit from this offering are those Newsource stations affiliated with Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. (http://www.ibsys.com). In a separate announcement today, beginning in early March, IBS will be able to use parts of the CNN Newsource feed on its local Web Channels that serve Newsource-affiliated stations. Included in this agreement, CNN.com will contribute national and international headlines for use on IBS' Web Channels and IBS will provide CNN with local news and feature content for use on CNN.com's Local section. CNN Newsource Sales, Inc., a subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., is the premier provider of news and information resources to the local news industry. The division is dedicated to the sales and marketing of CNN Newsource and its services, including CNN Newsource Feeds—regional, national, and international news, sports and Newsource-produced franchise pieces; CNN Newsource Live—dependable live opportunities via 11 dedicated correspondents on the scene of breaking news and select feature stories; CNN Marketsource—localized live reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange; CNN Newsbeam—satellite time and fiber use at competitive rates; CNN Newsource on Demand, CNN Local Link, CNN Live Breaking Coverage, CNN ImageSource, Noticiero CNN Internacional, CNN/U.S. and CNN Headline News Excerpting, and CNN Headline News Half-Hour Programs. CNN Newsource Sales also distributes market-exclusive news resources; including PARENTING, Daily News from Entertainment Weekly, Mrs. Fixit® and A.D.A.M.® Version 2.0.

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