Posted by ArtsJournal.com on November 11, 1999 at 12:29:54:
• Announcing the Launch of ArtsJournal.com
Hard to keep up with all the news in the arts world? Arts Journal is a new website http://www.Artsjournal.com that billed as a daily digest of arts and cultural journalism. Its one-stop shopping for all the news of the arts world, an easy way to keep current with what the arts world is talking about. Every weekday Arts Journal monitors and collects stories from more than 100 North American, Australian and European newspapers and magazines that write about the arts, and posts links directly to the stories on the Arts Journal site. Publications range from the New York Times, LA Times, Dallas Morning News, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and London Times, to magazines such as Art News, the Art Newspaper, Feed, Slate, Salon, the Village Voice, Seattle Weekly and San Francisco Weekly. The site also features links to the arts sections of dozens of newspapers, magazines and other publications, as well as an archive of stories organized by arts genre. Arts Journal also features the "Arts Beat" column every weekend, an annotated summary of the previous week's major arts stories plus a report on trends and issues being written about in the arts press. Arts Beat is also available each weekend in e-mail form delivered free of charge.
To sign up, send an e-mail to: Artsbeat@Artsjournal.com and write "subscribe" inthe Subject line. Arts Journal is edited by Douglas McLennan, formerly arts columnist and arts reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.