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Newsbytes News Network, called "an Associated Press for tech-information junkies"[1] was founded in May, 1983 in San Francisco, California by broadcast journalist Wendy Woods Gorski, who remained editor in chief for the 19 years. Continually published from 1983 to 2002, Newsbytes covered breaking news in consumer technology including computing, interactive media, telecommunications and cybersecurity, spanning the formative years of Silicon Valley and the advent of personal computers.
The Washington Post Company acquired Newsbytes in 1997. The archive of Newsbytes stories is currently on the Lexis-Nexis research database under the code NWSBYT [2]
Predating the Internet, Newsbytes News Network came to be considered a “boot camp“ for online journalism. Its alumni have gone on to work for CNet, ZDNet, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and The New York Times.[3]
At the height of its popularity in the mid-1990s, Newsbytes was published by over 180 media outlets and produced almost 100 technology news reports daily.[4] Its success was buoyed by enthusiasm for news about emerging technologies. Newsbytes was able to offer instantaneous delivery of technology information before the invention of the Internet.[5]
- ^ (1) St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 11, 1998, page 6P. "98 to Watch in '98'
- ^ "Welcome to LexisNexis - Choose Your Path". www.lexisnexis.com.
- ^ (9) Editor and Publisher, "Washingtonpost.com Folds Newsbytes Unit" May 23, 2002. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/PrintArticle/Washingtonpost-com-Folds-Newsbytes-Unit
- ^ (10) Free for All: The Internet’s Transformation of Journalism, by Elliot King, page 105, http://www.editorandpublisher.com/PrintArticle/Washingtonpost-com-Folds-Newsbytes-Unit Northwestern University Press, Mar 29, 2010.
- ^ (6) St. Croix Valley Press, “Spanning the Globe from Stillwater” November 30, 1995.