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Shanley Stern, 1-212-455-8076 Joan Hurwitz, 301-628-5020
April 18, 2005
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American Nurses Association
Palo Alto, CA - Topix.net (www.topix.net), the Internet's largest resource for online news with over 300,000 news channels, announced today that it will provide a free daily newsfeed from the Topix.net Nursing Channel to the American Nurses Association (ANA) Web site (www.NursingWorld.org). Topix.net's Nursing Channel links users to comprehensive news relating to or affecting the practice of nursing from a variety of sources in one easily accessible location. Topix.net gathers news from a variety of sources to create more than 300,000 news channels of categorized news content updated continuously using Topix.net's proprietary technology.
Nursing News from Topix.net provides nurses and others who have an interest in the profession with an easy and efficient way to stay informed on the issues and news related to nursing. Under the terms of the agreement, ANA will provide advertising for Topix.net on the ANA Web site as well as in its bi-monthly member newspaper, The American Nurse.
"This new partnership is a key ingredient in the Topix.net initiative to expand partnership opportunities with industry-specific Web sites and organizations," said Rich Skrenta, CEO, Topix.net. "We're thrilled to provide the American Nurses Association with
relevant headlines. Topix.net has the unique capability through its Nursing Channel to provide nurses with immediate access to relevant news and information on one comprehensive Web site."
ANA will carry the Topix newsfeed on its newly launched "Members Only" area of its Web site. "Our partnership with Topix allows us to deliver a value-added benefit to our members and others who choose to subscribe to 'Members Only,' said ANA Chief Executive Officer Linda J. Stierle, MSN, RN, CNAA,BC. "We are pleased to partner with Topix in delivering timely, targeted information through NursingWorld."
Nursing News is one of the 300,000 subjects on Topix.net pulled from 10,000 online news providers in the site's extensive database. The Topix.net News Channel Guide is online at http://www.topix.net/dir and provides users with easy access to the most trafficked news channels on the site.
Since its launch a year ago, Topix.net has established itself as a major content and technology provider on the Internet and has secured deals to provide news headlines for Ask Jeeves, info.com, AOL and CitySearch. Topix.net also is actively pursuing future partnerships with highly targeted Web sites like the ANA to utilize the site's unique ability to categorize news by subject.
Topix.net is a free site that continuously monitors over 10,000 news sources including newspapers, magazines, radio, television stations and Web logs to provide news for every U.S. ZIP Code, giving users access to a broad array of local news from a single source.
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Founded in 2002 with the specific mission of providing users with the ability to quickly and easily find targeted news on the Internet, Topix.net is a news aggregator with unique technology to find and categorize news into 300,000 topics, from Autos to ZIP code level local news. Topix.net is a privately held company with equal investment from Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Knight-Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB). Topix.net distributes content via partnerships with Citysearch, Ask Jeeves, My Yahoo!, Bloglines, Metro Newspapers, Newsgator, Findory, Wondir, Infospace, Link Silicon Valley and HelloMetro.com.
The American Nurses Association is the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.7 million registered nurses (RNs) through its 54 constituent member associations. The ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.
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