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a075 0652 09 Jun 80
PM-Information Retrieval,480
For Release at 2 p.m. EDT
AP Members' Group Announces Information Retrieval Plan
ATLANTA (AP) - Home computer owners will be able to ''dial'' news
stories from The Associated Press and a group of the cooperative's
member newspapers under an information retrieval experiment announced
today by AP President Keith Fuller.
Fuller said that a minimum of 11 AP member newspapers will work with
the AP and CompuServe Inc., a Columbus, Ohio, computer firm, to
provide information to people with personal computers.
Beginning this summer, the newspapers and AP will provide news,
business, sports and feature data to CompuServe computers in Columbus.
Any individual with a personal computer will be able to get this
information by dialing special telephone numbers. Users of the system
will pay $5 an hour for the service.
The first of the 11 newspapers to participate will be the Columbus
Dispatch, Fuller said. Each paper will experiment for a six-month
period, providing news, features and advertising material in its
community.
''At The Associated Press, we believe that any information retrieval
system must revolve around the newspaper in the community,'' Fuller
said. ''We strongly believe our member newspapers and radio and
television stations are in the best position to be the successful
information processor in this new technology.
''CompuServe agreed. As a result, the AP member will be the data
provider, advertising gatherer and service marketer in its town.
''The information retrieval system gets the full benefit of the
product our member provides daily and its expertise in marketing the
product in its own community.''
Fuller made the announcement at a news conference at the American
Newspaper Publishers Association Production Management Conference.
Joining him at the conference were: Jack Tarver, publisher of the
Atlanta Constitution and Journal and chairman of the board of
directors of AP; David Bowen and James W. Mangan, vice presidents of
the AP; Robert Johnson, vice president of the Columbus Dispatch; and
Jeffrey Wilkins, president of CompuServe.
The AP is the world's oldest and largest news gathering
organization, serving more than 1,370 newspapers and 3,681 radio and
television stations in the United States.
CompuServe is an established national remote computing services
company, recently acquired by H&R Block Inc. It also provides computer
programming and games through an existing personal computing network
available in more than 250 cities.
The experiment with CompuServe is one of five information retrieval
projects in which the AP presently participates.
The others are in Miami with Knight-Ridder where 150 homes can gain
access to AP information through a TV set; with Mead Data Corp. and
its news library service; with Dow Jones & Co. by providing current
stock quotations for its news retrieval service; and by the AP
Political Databank, a constantly updated events file on the 1980
national and state political campaigns, with the New York Times Co.
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a078 0714 09 Jun 80
PM-Information Retrieval, SUB, a075,40
For Release at 2 p.m. EDT
ATLANTA: SUBs 4th graf, The first...its community, to state that 10
other newspapers not picked.
The first of the 11 newspapers to participate will be the Columbus
Dispatch, Fuller said. Each paper will experiment for a six-month
period, providing news, features and advertising material in its
community. The 10 other newspapers have not been selected.
''At The, 5th graf
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a075 0652 09 Jun 80
PM-Information Retrieval,480
For Release at 2 p.m. EDT
AP Members' Group Announces Information Retrieval Plan
ATLANTA (AP) - Home computer owners will be able to ''dial'' news
stories from The Associated Press and a group of the cooperative's
member newspapers under an information retrieval experiment announced
today by AP President Keith Fuller.
Fuller said that a minimum of 11 AP member newspapers will work with
the AP and CompuServe Inc., a Columbus, Ohio, computer firm, to
provide information to people with personal computers.
Beginning this summer, the newspapers and AP will provide news,
business, sports and feature data to CompuServe computers in Columbus.
Any individual with a personal computer will be able to get this
information by dialing special telephone numbers. Users of the system
will pay $5 an hour for the service.
The first of the 11 newspapers to participate will be the Columbus
Dispatch, Fuller said. Each paper will experiment for a six-month
period, providing news, features and advertising material in its
community.
''At The Associated Press, we believe that any information retrieval
system must revolve around the newspaper in the community,'' Fuller
said. ''We strongly believe our member newspapers and radio and
television stations are in the best position to be the successful
information processor in this new technology.
''CompuServe agreed. As a result, the AP member will be the data
provider, advertising gatherer and service marketer in its town.
''The information retrieval system gets the full benefit of the
product our member provides daily and its expertise in marketing the
product in its own community.''
Fuller made the announcement at a news conference at the American
Newspaper Publishers Association Production Management Conference.
Joining him at the conference were: Jack Tarver, publisher of the
Atlanta Constitution and Journal and chairman of the board of
directors of AP; David Bowen and James W. Mangan, vice presidents of
the AP; Robert Johnson, vice president of the Columbus Dispatch; and
Jeffrey Wilkins, president of CompuServe.
The AP is the world's oldest and largest news gathering
organization, serving more than 1,370 newspapers and 3,681 radio and
television stations in the United States.
CompuServe is an established national remote computing services
company, recently acquired by H&R Block Inc. It also provides computer
programming and games through an existing personal computing network
available in more than 250 cities.
The experiment with CompuServe is one of five information retrieval
projects in which the AP presently participates.
The others are in Miami with Knight-Ridder where 150 homes can gain
access to AP information through a TV set; with Mead Data Corp. and
its news library service; with Dow Jones & Co. by providing current
stock quotations for its news retrieval service; and by the AP
Political Databank, a constantly updated events file on the 1980
national and state political campaigns, with the New York Times Co.
ap-ny-06-09 0952EST
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a078 0714 09 Jun 80
PM-Information Retrieval, SUB, a075,40
For Release at 2 p.m. EDT
ATLANTA: SUBs 4th graf, The first...its community, to state that 10
other newspapers not picked.
The first of the 11 newspapers to participate will be the Columbus
Dispatch, Fuller said. Each paper will experiment for a six-month
period, providing news, features and advertising material in its
community. The 10 other newspapers have not been selected.
''At The, 5th graf
ap-ny-06-09 1013EST
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a243 1525 09 Jun 80
AM-Information Retrieval,800
AP Members' Group Tests Home Computer News Service
ATLANTA (AP) - The Associated Press and some of its member
newspapers will make news reports available to home computer owners
this summer in an experimental program with broad ramifications for
the newspaper industry, AP President and General Manager Keith Fuller
said Monday.
Utilizing the new technology of information retrieval, the program
will allow individuals with personal computers to gain access to
selected news, sports, business and feature data provided by the
newspapers and the AP by calling a special telephone number.
The experiment will be conducted in association with CompuServe
Inc., a Columbus, Ohio, computer firm.
Fuller said the AP is undertaking the experiment ''on behalf of the
entire newspaper industry.''
''As an industry-owned organization, the AP has but one interest in
learning about information retrieval - that is to see that the people
who pay our bills are in on the ground floor of this new medium,'' he
said.
Information retrieval is among the hottest topics in the industry
today. Some predict home-based computers capable of calling up news,
sports and other data someday may replace home-delivered newspapers.
''We have no idea where information retrieval will lead in the
future,'' said Fuller. ''We do know that the people who are best
qualified to handle information retrieval are the people in the media
in the United States today.''
Under the experiment, at least 11 newspapers and the AP will begin
providing their information to CompuServe's computers in Columbus.
Each paper will experiment for a six-month period, providing news,
features and advertising material in its community.''
The first of the newspapers - the Columbus Dispatch - has already
been chosen. The other newspapers will be chosen to provide a
cross-section of markets across the country, said Fuller.
There would be an initial charge of between $15 and $29.95 for home
computer owners, who would thereafter be charged $5 for each hour's
use of the system, said CompuServe President Jeffrey Wilkins.
Fuller made the announcement at a news conference at the American
Newspaper Publishers Association Production Management Conference.
Joining him at the conference were: Jack Tarver, publisher of The
Atlanta Constitution and Journal and chairman of the board of
directors of AP; David Bowen and James W. Mangan, vice presidents of
the AP; Robert Johnson, vice president of the Columbus Dispatch; and
Wilkins.
Fuller stressed that the AP believes ''any information retrieval
system must revolve strongly around the newspapers in the community.''
''The AP, owned by newspapers, will never sell news directly to the
consumer. It has to go through newspapers. But our job is to see that
the industry itself is brought in on the ground floor of this new
medium,'' said Fuller.
''Where it goes, no one knows. Whether it will ever replace the
conventional media that we know today, no one knows. But I think it's
interesting enough, it has the potential, that we all should be aware
of it, and we want to do the experimentation on the ground floor.''
The AP is the world's oldest and largest news gathering
organization, serving more than 1,370 newspapers and 3,681 radio and
television stations in the United States.
CompuServe is an established national remote computing services
company, recently acquired by H&R Block Inc. It also provides computer
programming and games through an existing personal computing network
available in more than 250 cities.
The experiment with CompuServe is one of five information retrieval
projects in which the AP presently participates.
The others are in Miami with Knight-Ridder where 150 homes can gain
access to AP information through a TV set; with Mead Data Corp. and
its news library service; with Dow Jones & Co. by providing current
stock quotations for its news retrieval services; and by the AP
Political Databank, a constantly updated events file on the 1980
national and state political campaigns, with the New York Times Co.
Fuller said the information gained through the experiment with
CompuServe and the member newspapers will ''be available to any AP
member anywhere. So no one who is outside the actual participation
will be in any way starting from way back, because the information
will all be for you.''
The number of participating newspapers, he said, was limited by
CompuServe, although he added that 11 may not be the final number.
The newspapers will be selected, he said, to provide a
coast-to-coast ''cross section - all kinds of markets, all sizes of
cities, in order for us to learn precisely what the public will accept
in retrieval, what they would look at, what they would want.''
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