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Topix Announces Forum Partnership With MediaNews Group
Web's Largest News Community Expands Its Mission to be the Nationwide
Platform for Local Conversation
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Topix
(http://www.topix.com), the largest news community on the Web, today
announced an agreement to become the preferred online forums and article
commenting provider for MediaNews Group, publisher of 61 daily newspapers,
including the Denver Post and San Jose Mercury News. In addition, Topix has
signed forums partnerships with GoErie.com, Zap2It.com, KOB.com, and
CapitalTimes.com.
MediaNews Group has already launched forums on several newspaper sites
in New England, including LowellSun.com, SentinelandEnterprise.com,
ConnecticutPost.com, and NewsTimes.com. Within the next few weeks, Topix
plans to launch an additional 30-40 MediaNews Group sites that don't
currently have a commenting system or that are migrating from another
platform. The Topix forums are designed for simple integration, and the
migration of the MediaNews Group sites is expected to be complete by early
2008.
"The goal at Topix is to power local voice and conversation in every
single city and town across America," said Chris Tolles, Topix CEO. "By
partnering with newspaper companies like MediaNews Group, we accelerate
fulfillment of that mission through a federated, networked commenting
system which provides synergies between every partner in the network. We
plan to actively expand partnerships in 2008."
Topix has built the only web-scalable forum platform, which balances
algorithmic and human moderation -- as well as speed and stability -- to
provide hyper-local participation on a nationwide network of sites. Topix
partners are successfully building engaged audiences: IndyStar.com and
Sun-Sentinel.com, for example, have each surpassed one million forum posts.
Since the Topix forums launched less than two years ago, more than three
million people have posted more than 18 million comments on the site --
with participation at 80,000 comments a day.
About Topix
Topix is the leading news community on the Web, connecting people to
the information and discussions that matter to them in every U.S. town and
city. A Top 20 online news destination (comScore, October 2007), the
company links news from 50,000 sources to 360,000 lively user-generated
forums. Topix also works with the nation's major media companies to grow
and engage their online audiences through forums, classifieds, publishing
platforms and RSS feeds. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., Topix LLC is a
privately held company with investment from Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI),
The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB). For
more, visit http://www.topix.com.
SOURCE Topix
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