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ADVOCATES--

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Tuesday, March 4, 1997

So Long...

PoliticsNow is offline.

This web site, focused on politics and policy and sponsored by ABC News, National Journal Inc., and The Washington Post Company, ceased publication on Tuesday, March 4, 1997.

Reflecting the changing nature of the Web, the partners decided to focus their political coverage on their individual online initiatives. The cutting edge successes of PoliticsNow will enable each partner to improve and perfect its own online ventures.

"PoliticsNow fulfilled the special needs of an election year with journalistic skill and a unique sense of style," said Marc Teren, president of Digital Ink Co., the digital media and electronic information services subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. "We will now concentrate our political coverage on washingtonpost.com, the Web site we launched last year."

"We are extremely proud of the standards PoliticsNow has set for democracy on the Web," said John Fox Sullivan, president and publisher of National Journal Inc. "We will apply the lessons learned to a new site, NationalJournal.com, designed for our traditional audience of political decision-makers and activists in Washington and throughout the country."

"PoliticsNow was a unique editorial collaboration that provided its users with a rich array of print, video, and audio reports," said Bill Abrams, vice president of business development, ABC News. "ABC News is aggressively developing other means for the online community to access our worldwide news-gathering resources."

ABC News is a division of ABC, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. ABC is composed of the ABC Television Network, owned television and radio stations and radio networks, cable programming services, international ventures, publishing, online program services, and domestic television syndication.

National Journal Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Times Mirror Co. National Journal Inc. s publications include National Journal, the weekly magazine on government and politics; The Hotline, a daily briefing on American politics; CongressDaily and CongressDaily/A.M., twice daily newsletters on Congress; the Almanac of American Politics, the "bible" of American politics; and Government Executive (www.govexec.com), the monthly magazine for senior federal managers.

Digital Ink Co. is The Washington Post Company s digital media and electronic information services subsidiary. Digital Ink publishes washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com); the Newsweek Parent's Guide to Children s Software 97 (http://www.newsweekparentsguide.com); and PhotoStore (http://www.photostore.com).

It's been fun for us. We hope you enjoyed it too.

See ya,

The PoliticsNow Staff

Evans Witt, Executive Editor
evans.witt@politicsnow.com
Troy K. Schneider, Managing Editor
troys@politicsnow.com
Matthew Greenberg, Interactive Editor
matthewg@politicsnow.com
Mark Stencel, Issues Editor
mark.stencel@politicsnow.com
Brian Hartman, News Editor
brianh@politicsnow.com
Charles D. Todd, Associate Editor, Campaigns
chuckt@politicsnow.com
Karl Mattson, Associate Editor, Interactive
karl.mattson@politicsnow.com
Amy Harrison, Associate Editor, Resources
amyh@politicsnow.com
Lisa Todorovich, Associate Editor, Views
lisat@politicsnow.com
Clare Weiss, ABC Producer
weissc@abc.com
Zach Brand, Manager of Applications Development And Support
zach.brand@politicsnow.com
Frank Pappas, Web Producer
fcpappas@politicsnow.com
Alice Kreit, Art Director
alice.kreit@politicsnow.com
Mimi Capalaces, Advertising Sales Manager
mimic@politicsnow.com
Jesse London, Director, ABC New Media Sales
londonj@ccabc.com
Casey Taylor, Advertising And Marketing Coordinator
casey.taylor@politicsnow.com
Greg Hamilton, Marketing Manager
gregh@politicsnow.com
Leah Holzman, Administrative Assistant
holzmanl@politicsnow.com


Interns
Michelle Jaconi jaconim@politicsnow.com
Pamela Street streetp@politicsnow.com

Contributing Editors
Bob Balkin buzz@politicsnow.com
Edwin Diamond edwind@politicsnow.com
Gregg Geller greggg@politicsnow.com
Patricia Miller pattim@apn.com
Dwight Morris
David Winston davew@politicsnow.com


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