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[Nettime-nl] New Davos Newspaper |
Voor wie meer wil lezen over de Davos top: Earth Times i.s.m. New York Times (sorry wel even een engels mailtje dus) eveline >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:environmentaljournalists-unsubscribe@egroups.com> >Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 11:23:12 -0500 >The World Economic Forum, in cooperation with the Earth Times >Foundation, is launching a daily newspaper at the Forum's annual meeting >in Davos, Switzerland (January 25-30, 2001). The newspaper, Forum News >Daily, will be the newspaper of record of the Davos summit, and will be >distributed to more than 5,000 world leaders in business, politics, >academe, foundations, media, and the arts and sciences. Participants >will receive copies in their hotel rooms each morning before breakfast. >Forum News Daily will be also distributed widely in the main Congress >Center where the summit sessions are held, and in the community of Davos >itself, plus at the Zurich and Geneva international airports. > >Articles will be posted daily on the Web sites of Newsweek >(dailydavos.com), eCountries (eCountries.com) and The Earth Times >(earthtimes.org). The World Economic Forum is also mailing copies of the >inaugural issue of Forum News Daily to all registered Davos participants >before they arrive in Switzerland. We will print 10,000 copies each day >in partnership with Tribune de Genève; the daily Web audiences are >expected to be in the tens of thousands internationally. > >The tabloid-size newspaper will report on all activities at the annual >meeting, and will carry features, analyses, and profiles of leading CEOs >and others. It will invite opinion articles by corporate executives. Our >team consists of wellknown journalists and columnists. Each issue of >Forum News Daily will also carry news of the world supplied by The New >York Times under a special arrangement with TimesFax. We will publish 10 >Davos editions: a curtain-raiser; eight dailies at Davos; and a wrap-up >issue. Articles will also appear in a special anthology that we will >publish in March 2001 for general audiences, and schools and colleges. >Forum News Daily will be published at Davos meetings annually, and also >at selected regional summits of the Forum during the course of each >year. Special attention will be given to the concerns of nongovernmental >organizations, particularly on issues such as globalization, human >rights, population and social justice. > >The publication of Forum News Daily is a unique undertaking of the World >Economic Forum, the foremost global partnership of business, political, >intellectual and other leaders of society committed to improving the >state of the world. The Earth Times Foundation is a not-for-profit >organization that publishes The Earth Times daily on the Web >(http://www.earthtimes.org) and twice a month in print. In association >with the Council on Foreign Relations, it produces the Council's monthly >newsletter, "The Calendar & Chronicle." The foundation has published >dailies at major world conferences for more than 10 years. The Earth >Times Foundation, through Earth Times Books, also encourages fersh >voices from the developing world. > >-- >Pranay Gupte >President and Editor-in-Chief >Forum News Daily >(Published at Davos 2001 by the World Economic Forum and Earth Times >Foundation) >205 East 42nd Street, Suite 1316 >New York, NY 10017 (USA) >Telephone: 212-297-0488, ext. 17 >Fax: 212-297-0566 >E-mail: pranaygupte@att.net >Daily Web Edition: http://www.earthtimes.org > > ______________________________________________________ * Verspreid via nettime-nl. Commercieel gebruik niet * toegestaan zonder toestemming. <nettime-nl> is een * open en ongemodereerde mailinglist over net-kritiek. * Meer info, archief & anderstalige edities: * http://www.nettime.org/. * Contact: Menno Grootveld (rabotnik@xs4all.nl).