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Article: Black Press Moves To Expand on Web; UPS Grant to Help Start News Service
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- The Washington Post
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- May 10, 2001
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The National Newspaper Publishers Association, a Washington-based
organization of about 200 black newspaper publishers, will launch an
effort to help member newspapers publish online and develop a
national black news service.
The program, expected to be announced today at a breakfast meeting
with Congressional Black Caucus members, will be funded initially
with a $125,000 contribution from United Parcel Service of America
Inc.
"This will be a huge microphone for the black press to be heard on
the Internet," said John J. Oliver Jr., the association's president
and publisher and chief executive of the Washington and Baltimore
Afro-American newspapers. The news service, he said, will "make ...