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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