Allpolitics.com and latimes.com Announce Content Alliance

Posted on March 29, 2000

allpolitics.com and latimes.com have formed a content alliance as part of their continuing commitment to Election 2000 coverage, the two news sites announced. Under the terms of the agreement, allpolitics.com, CNN Interactive's political website, will feature election and political stories from latimes.com, The Los Angeles Times' website. latimes.com will offer video-on-demand top stories of the day from CNN.com as part of its nationally recognized political news coverage.

``latimes.com is a leader in covering politics and electoral politics,'' said Carin Dessauer, executive editor Washington, D.C., and CNN Interactive election director. ``allpolitics.com is committed to providing not only breaking political news but also the most comprehensive and compelling multimedia online political coverage available. latimes.com's in-depth coverage of politics and investigative reporting, nationally and locally, adds to this continuing commitment.''

``Our alliance with allpolitics.com and CNN.com means more depth of online news coverage,'' said Leah Gentry, editorial director, new media, Los Angeles Times. ``Users of both sites will benefit from the quality journalism of both of these news institutions.''