 A few pages preserved from Newsworks.com, 1998
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So what the heck was NewsWorks? You don't remember it? You and a
few million others. My friend, the sports writer Eric Adelson, who worked there for a time, once
described the place as "wonderfully ill-advised" because it was a fun
place to work, even in the face of catastrophic failure. Basically,
NewsWorks was an attempt by the Newspaper industry to try and compete
online with the likes of CNN and MSNBC, with a daily news web site whose
aim was to bring the best online newspaper content together in one
place. While it had a small and devoted following, it never really did
find its legs. Launched in the summer of 1997, it folded in March of
1998, and its parent company New Century Networks LLC., which was
jointly owned by several major newspaper chains, dissolved. Sari Kallin
of CIO Web Business did an
excellent story about the rise and fall of NewsWorks in its November
1998 issue. What I've assembled here are items I worked on as an Associate Editor on the NewsWorks site. Each page appears as it did on the last day the NewsWorks site was live. However, many of the links within the pages have probably died since then. But the point of this site is to present an example of some of the content that NewsWorks contained. As far as I know this is the only repository of any of the site's content. If that's not the case, and you happen to have some leftover html code, I'd be glad to add it to the archive here. One of my jobs was to produce the weekly Leading Edge package which ran each Monday. It covered topics in science and technology. I picked the the topic of the week, did the research, select the stories and artwork, wrote the copy, and assembled the package for production.
Usenet: The Unsung Side of the Internet These are early versions of the science and technology
packages, before we called it Leading Edge.
I also handled what became a daily EL Niño
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