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>Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 01:42:37 +0100
>Via: pierre@achilles.net
>From: vicent@partal.com (vicent@partal.com)
>Subject: World Congress of Journalism and Internet-Monday 04 May
>
>On monday 4 of May will start in the Brazilian city of Recife the sessions for
>the World Congress of Journalism, the greatest event scheduled every three
>years by the organizations of journalist from all over the world. This is the
>first time the Congress is not celebrated in the USA, Canada or Europe.
>
>As part of the program there will be monday an area of discussion on
>journalism online. One of the conferences in this area will be held by
>Vicent Partal, director of VilaWeb. VilaWeb is an electronic newspaper that
>have acheived a great succes in spain, placing it as one of the six most
>visited news sites (according to the spanish newspapers audit bureau) and the
>most in catalan language. In the spanish top 20 sites VilaWeb is the only
>internet-born media being present.
>
>VilaWeb striking success will be presented to the congress as a model of
>Glocal Journalism (neologism linking the local information with the global
>culture tools). Based in a different aproach on how to work as a journalists in
>the digital era and how to organize a new media company. Participation of the
>users in a very high level is also one of the keys of the success.
>
>VilaWeb has organized a network of local editions as a chaine of franchises
>with traditional medias (newspapers, radio stations...) in 55 catalan cities,
>and for the catalan-speakink communities of Los Angeles, Boston, New York and
>London as well.
>
>VilaWeb is a company of Partal, Maresma & Associats based in Barcelona.
>
>You can get more information in this story visiting these sites:
>
>http://vilaweb.com
>
>http://www.partal.com/welcome/glocal/english.html
>(the background history of VilaWeb, how it works and the global concept).
>
>http://www.ojd.es
>(the spanish audit bureau of circulation)
>
>World Congress of Journalism in Recife (Brazil)
>http://www.23cmj.org.br/
>
>
>You can also contact vilaweb at coordinador@vilaweb.com
>
>=====================================
>VilaWeb
>http://vilaweb.com
>
>Partal, Maresma & Associats
>http://www.partal.com
>
>Avinguda Mistral 36, escala esquerra, entresol 3a.
>08015 Barcelona
>
>Telefon: + 34 3 425 14 01
>Fax: + 34 3 423 86 69
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>

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