DAYTON, OH and SAN JOSE, CA, December 11, 2001 – LexisNexis™,
a leading global provider of comprehensive, authoritative legal and business
information solutions, and Knight Ridder Digital, interactive information
subsidiary of Knight Ridder (NYSE: KRI) and founder/operator of the Real
Cities Network, today announced the formation of an interactive-content
alliance.
Through the relationship, Knight Ridder Digital is syndicating its content
available to LexisNexis users; and LexisNexis is powering access to on-point
information to 17 Knight Ridder newspapers.
Twenty-eight full-text daily Knight Ridder publications from top media
markets throughout the country now will be available to LexisNexis customers,
many same-day or within a day of publication, powered by Knight Ridder
Digital. The offering includes major metropolitan papers such as The Miami
Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, the Detroit Free Press,
The Charlotte Observer, the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, MN, and The San
Jose Mercury News. The additional Knight Ridder content joins the thousands
of world-class publications available to LexisNexis customers, enabling
LexisNexis to be a leader in the news and business information marketplace.
“Our agreement with LexisNexis is another major step in creating
new revenue streams from Knight Ridder Digital content,” said Ken
Doctor, vice president, content services for Knight Ridder Digital. “LexisNexis
is one of the premier information services in the world, and now for the
first time Knight Ridder content will be available to its business, legal,
academic and government desktop users. Those users will be further introduced
to our most important newspaper brands and be able to link directly to
them. We believe that in addition to customers finding our content through
our destination sites, our content must actively find customers through
other established channels of sales and distribution. The LexisNexis channel
is a key, and we expect the partnership to grow over time.”
In a separate agreement, Knight Ridder newspapers and LexisNexis announced
a new, centrally-administered information services contract to enable
Knight Ridder professionals access to the LexisNexis suite of information
solutions. That contract brings wide exposure to LexisNexis research databases
to the desktops of thousands of professionals at Knight Ridder, including
nexis.com for journalists and editors conducting research, lexis.com for
Knight Ridder’s legal staff, customized solutions for professionals
in Knight Ridder’s corporate offices, LexisNexis™ Political
Universe for the Knight Ridder’s Washington Bureau, and access to
select Online Public Records and LexisNexis™ Company Dossier products
across the country.
“We are excited to offer LexisNexis customers the high-quality news
that Knight Ridder, the second largest newspaper publisher in the nation,
produces, while driving our first-rate information solutions to Knight
Ridder newsrooms and offices,” said Dawn Conway, vice president of
content licensing for LexisNexis. “This represents another move in
our company’s drive to magnify the breadth and depth of our information
and provide our customers with the very best resources.”
“Knowledge gained in research is a prime tool in creating great
journalism,” said Jerry Ceppos, vice president of news at Knight
Ridder. “Desktop access to deeper and wider research and to public
records databases will improve our reporting edge.”
Knight Ridder Publications To Be On LexisNexis
*already on LexisNexis
About Knight Ridder, Inc. and Knight Ridder Digital
Knight Ridder is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, with
products in print and online. The company publishes 32 daily newspapers
in 28 U.S. markets, with a readership of 8.5 million daily and 12.6 million
Sunday. Knight Ridder also has investments in a variety of Internet and
technology companies and two newsprint companies. The company's Internet
operation, Knight Ridder Digital, creates and maintains a variety of innovative
online services, including Real Cities, the premier national network of
city and regional destination sites in 58 U.S. markets. Knight Ridder
and Knight Ridder Digital are located in San Jose, Calif. For more company
information, visit www.knightridder.com
or www.knightridderdigital.com.
About LexisNexis
LexisNexis is a global leader in providing comprehensive and authoritative
news, business and legal information solutions to legal, corporate, academic,
and government markets, and is a member of Reed Elsevier PLC, which is
owned equally by Reed International PLC (NYSE: RUK) and Elsevier NV (NYSE:
ENL). The LexisNexisÔ services combine searchable access to over
three billion documents from thousands of sources with leading-edge systems
and tools for managing and evaluating this content. The LexisNexis family
of products includes nexis.comsm for the information profession and lexis.comÒ
for the legal profession, as well as numerous customized products delivering
both job-specific and enterprise-wide industry-leading knowledge solutions.
For more information, visit http://www.lexisnexis.com.
