>X-Length: 00001a2d >Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 12:12:30 -0400 >From: cliona murphy <cliona@connors.com> >Reply-To: cliona@connors.com >Organization: connors.com >To: PressNow@xs4all.nl >Subject: NY Times on the Web >X-Url: http://www.dds.nl/~pressnow/ > >For Immediate Release > > > >Contact: Lydia Trettis or Peter Suciu > Connors Communications > 212/807-7500 > peter@connors.com > > >THE NEW YORK TIMES ON THE WEB HOSTS=20 >WORLDWIDE INTERNET FORUM ON THE BOSNIA CONFLICT > >Electronic Gallery Project Will Feature Gilles Peress' Photographs > >NEW YORK, NY, May 29, 1996 =AD=AD The New York Times on the Web has=20 >announced an interactive multimedia photojournalism project that=20 >will chronicle Bosnias struggle for peace. To be launched June=20 >10th, Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace, will feature an electronic=20 >gallery of more than one hundred and fifty images by renowned=20 >photojournalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion=20 >on war and peace in the former Yugoslavia. Anyone with Internet=20 >access can view and participate in the project without charge or=20 >registration at http://www.nytimes.com/bosnia. =20 > >Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace will encourage participation from=20 >individuals all over the world, particularly in locations closest to=20 >the conflict and its unfolding resolution. Internet connections are=20 >being established in Sarajevo so Bosnians themselves can take part.=20 >Terminals linked to the Web site are being installed by IBM at the=20 >International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The=20 >Hague, Netherlands, and at the United Nations in New York. Global=20 >discussions will be initiated on the political, social and cultural=20 >issues raised by the war. > >"This project seeks to use the Internet to facilitate a greater=20 >understanding of one of the major events of our time, as well as a=20 >truly worldwide forum for discussion of the issues it raises," said=20 >Martin Nisenholtz, president of The New York Times Electronic Media=20 >Company, which conceived the Bosnia project as part of its recently=20 >launched Internet service, The New York Times on the Web. > >(more) > >Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace, page 2 > >Peress images are a personal and journalistic chronicle of the final=20 >weeks of the siege of Sarajevo, including the exodus of the Serbs=20 >from the citys suburbs. The interactive photo essay, combined with=20 >the photographer's narrative, provides the viewer with information=20 >and experiences similar to those encountered by journalists=20 >witnessing the end of the war. > >Peress is known for his photographic coverage of conflicts in Iran,=20 >Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Viewers will be encouraged to=20 >submit comments and reactions. Individuals in the former Yugoslavia=20 >will be invited to email their own accounts of events. > >More than ten Internet forums will be conducted by leading=20 >intellectual and political figures specializing in different aspects=20 >of the Bosnia conflict, including the war and its destruction,=20 >preceding historical events, the religious dimension, and political=20 >ramifications. Bernard Gwertzman, senior editor and former foreign=20 >editor of The New York Times, will oversee the forums. Hosts and=20 >participants will include: > > =B0 Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations > =B0 Ervin Staub, professor of psychology studying genocide at the=20 > University of Massachusetts > =B0 Steve Walker, formerly of the U.S. State Department > =B0 Manuela Dobos, professor of Balkanology at the City University of=20 >NY > =B0 Bono of U2 and The Passengers, producer of "Miss Sarajevo" > =B0 Aryeh Neier, president of the Soros Foundation & the Open Society=20 >Institute > =B0 Christiane Amanpour, senior international correspondent for CNN > >Users can also access multimedia background materials, color maps,=20 >audio clips, archival articles from New York Times correspondents,=20 >and links to relevant sites on the Web. Highlights of discussions=20 >and forum contributions will be posted regularly on the site. The=20 >site itself will remain accessible until August. >(more) > >Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace, page 3 > >=B3Our aim is to combine the journalistic mission of The New York=20 >Times, the visual impact of a magazine, and a forum for opinion and=20 >debate, in a way unique to this medium,=B2 said Kevin McKenna,=20 >editorial director for The New York Times Electronic Media Company. > >The New York Times Electronic Media Company, a wholly owned=20 >subsidiary of The New York Times Company, was founded in 1995 to=20 >develop new products and distribution channels for The Times. In=20 >addition to developing The New York Times on the Web, it produces=20 >@times, the newspaper's service on America Online. > >The New York Times Company is a diversified media company including=20 >newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations, and electronic=20 >information and publishing. The Company, which had 1995 revenues of=20 >$2.4 billion, publishes The New York Times, The Boston Globe and 21=20 >regional newspapers and owns a one-half interest in the=20 >International Herald Tribune; publishes nine magazines and conducts=20 >related activities in the fields of golf, tennis, skiing and=20 >sailing; operates six network-affiliated television stations and=20 >two New York City radio stations. It also operates news, photo and=20 >graphic services; manages news and feature syndicates and has=20 >several electronic publishing and new media activities. The Company=20 >has minority interests in one newsprint mill and one supercalendered=20 >paper mill. > >The Class A Common Stock is listed on the American Stock Exchange=20 >under the symbol NYT.A. > >Technical support for the Bosnia project is provided by the IBM=20 >Corporation, including Internet access provided by the IBM Global=20 >Network, one of the world's largest data and Internet service=20 >providers offering Internet access from nearly 600 locations in more=20 >than 45 countries.=20 ># # # > >
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