Chicago Tribune Launches New Business Website

The Chicago Tribune's financial news and Digital Publishing staffs have launched a new, interactive business news site on the World Wide Web, offering immediate access to breaking news and continually updated stock reports and analysis, and a daily preview of the next morning's Tribune business section. September 4, 1997

CMPnet Launches Net Insider

CMPnet announced today the launch of Net Insider, CMP's latest site addressing the needs of Internet users and enthusiasts. September 4, 1997

Tribune Education Acquires Shortland Publications

Tribune Education has acquired Shortland Publications Limited, a New Zealand-based company that publishes reading/language arts, science and social studies materials for the elementary school markets in the U. September 3, 1997

SmartMoney Interactive Launches

SmartMoney Magazine launched SmartMoney Interactive (SMI), a comprehensive resource on the World Wide Web for private investors, providing both decision-making tools on every major personal finance topic and daily updates on the latest investment opportunities. September 3, 1997

HarperCollins Announces Harper Flamingo Imprint

HarperCollins Publishers has announced the creation of its newest imprint, Harper Flamingo, which will be devoted specifically to literary titles, both fiction and nonfiction. September 2, 1997

Book Stacks Online Announces Author Readings

Book Stacks Unlimited announced the launch of an ongoing promotion that will give home page coverage to small presses. August 29, 1997

Mecklermedia's Internet Shopper Magazine Announces First International Edition

Mecklermedia Corporation has signed an agreement with the T4S Group of Cairo, Egypt to publish Internet Shopper magazine in Arabic with planned distribution throughout the Middle East. August 29, 1997

IDG's Computerworld Offers Daily News Email Updates

A new daily electronic-mail news service highlighting the top IT stories of the day has been launched by Computerworld, the newsweekly for information technology (IT) leaders. August 28, 1997

Upside Events Announces Internet Showcase 1998

Upside magazine and David Coursey today announced dates for the second annual Internet Showcase conference. August 28, 1997

Attitude Network Launches Glossy.com Site for Teen Girls

Attitude Network announced that Glossy, its new Web site for teen-age girls, will be the basis for a print magazine. August 28, 1997

BBC Launches Entertainment Service Called Beeb

The BBC (British Broadasting Company) has gotten into the Web entertainment and information game this week, with this formal announcement of  "beeb @ the bbc". August 28, 1997

CMP's InternetWeek Website Debuts

CMP's InternetWeek has launched its website. August 27, 1997

Rainbow Publications to Launch New Black Belt Magazine Website

On September 22, 1997, Rainbow Publications, will launch its revised Black Belt Magazine web site. August 27, 1997

Cybernautics Tapped for Simon & Schuster Virtual Expedition

Cybernautics, Inc. August 26, 1997

Cowles Media Company to Acquire Metro Marketing

Metro Marketing of Eagan, Minn. August 26, 1997

Golden Books Announces Publishing Program with Twentieth Century Fox

Golden Books Family Entertainment announced a major publishing program with Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising for the development of a wide variety of new and classic Golden Books formats for the studio's 1997 event film, Anastasia, scheduled for theatrical release in November. August 26, 1997

Knight-Ridder Announces Exchange of Newspapers With E.W. Scripps

In a swap announced July 25, Knight-Ridder traded the Boulder, Colo. August 25, 1997

Chubb Puts its Electronics Industry Publication Online

Chubb & Son Inc. August 25, 1997

Jessica Adelson Named Editor of NetGuide

CMP Media Inc. August 25, 1997

Anne Alexander Named Editor of Prevention Magazine

Coming straight from editing a leading magazine on alternative health, Anne Alexander is poised to bring the best of alternative medicine -- and a holistic take on health -- to the pages of Prevention. August 25, 1997

K-III's Weekly Reader to Launch New Science Newspaper in Schools

K-III Communications announced the launch of Science Spin as a supplement to its well-known title Weekly Reader: The Largest Newspaper For Kids In The World. August 25, 1997

Cox Interactive Media Surfs into Southern California

Cox Interactive Media (CIM) announced the opening of its Orange County Interactive Studio. August 22, 1997

Wire Networks and Hallmark Announce Partnership

Wire Networks, Inc. August 21, 1997

Berkley to Publish Companion Novels for Tom Clancy TV Miniseries

The Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc. August 21, 1997

Funk & Wagnalls Multimedia Encyclopedia Debuts Online

The complete unabridged text of encyclopedia, Funk & Wagnalls, was launched on the Internet by Community Network Systems. August 20, 1997