AP Markets Web Site Redesigned to Enhance Functionality
NEW YORK -- The Associated Press' premier financial data product, Money & Markets, is now easier to use than ever before, thanks to the redesigned AP Markets Web site. The Web site at http://markets.ap.org has been enhanced to include improved navigation and design.
Money & Markets, highly customizable for both print and online use, provides insight each day into the financial markets with a broad mix of text, graphics and data modules.
"Users have told us the new site looks great, is easy to navigate, and provides increased functionality and better access to product information," said Josh Orenstein, AP Global Director of Business and Financial Products. "The new features really highlight our Money & Markets product, and the site has been designed so that members can easily take action," Orenstein said.
For instance, the site now allows subscribers to more easily login and download their files. A new "Featured Members" page provides links to existing member implementations of Money & Markets online, giving subscribers a quick way of seeing Money & Markets "in action." Ticker/Stub Lookup is featured more prominently on the page so members can easily figure out abbreviations or stub names in their print listings.
"The updated Web site emphasizes the current Money & Markets product offerings while still providing information about Grand Central Stocks (GCS), StocksExpress, and our Quarterly/Annual products," said Russell Pollack, AP Manager of Markets Operations. Money & Markets Print, Online, and Extra Modules are prominently featured on the home page with robust drill-down information available. Money & Markets Print Product drill-down information includes a pop-up window providing easy one-click access to samples of each module. Money & Markets Online drill-down information offers "live" samples of modules.
There are detailed "Help" and "Download" pages providing one-stop access to everything a member needs for Money & Markets. In addition, downloads, fonts, GCS data elements, fund classifications and more are easily located from the main navigation.
For more information, contact your local bureau chief or John Parker, AP Financial Data Product Manager, at JParker@ap.org or 816.654.1091.
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The Busy Editor’s Guide to Better Journalism
A two-track workshop offering:
Hands-on classes for editors in boosting their skills at shooting and editing brief web video and using social media to distribute content
The best new ideas for setting and maintaining standards, planning multimedia content, online ethical decision-making and more.
WHEN: Friday and/or Saturday, Sept. 25-26, 2009 – attend one or two full-day sessions.
WHERE: Gaylord School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Bob Dotson, NBC’s “American Story With Bob Dotson,” at lunchtime on Friday only.
FACULTY: Robb Montgomery, visualeditors.com; Mark Briggs, journalism20.com; Ken Fleming, Center for Advanced Social Research at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri; David Arkin, GateHouse Media.
SEMINARS: The workshop has two tracks, both of which will be offered on Friday and again on Saturday. Participants may choose either track, either day – and may attend one or two days. Keynote speaker Bob Dotson will appear as the luncheon speaker on Friday only.
Blue Track: Hands-on Training: Making Better Web Video; Hands-on Training: Making Better Use of Social Media
Green Track: The Big Picture – Staying Ahead in the Changing Media World; Defining What’s “Good” in Digital Media; Planning Content for Multiple Media and Multiple Deadlines; and (choose one) Online Journalism Credibility or Alternative Story Forms for Print
REGISTRATION: $50 per person registration for one or two days, including lunches. Details to come. Stay tuned!
MORE INFO: More information to come via www.newstrain.org, www.mpinews.org, or wherever you have read this email.
CONTACT: Elaine Kramer, APME NewsTrain project director at apmenewstrain@gmail.com.
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AP Offering More Choices in Text Service for 2010
AP plans to offer two levels of Member Choice basic news service – the text report that every member gets – beginning Jan. 1, 2010. These new services will give newspapers more choices about the amount of national news coverage they want and added ability to lower costs.
AP announced the new services at its annual meeting April 6 and also shared plans for rate reductions on all text services for U.S. newspapers, in light of economic conditions. The impact on rates will vary widely among members, depending on the choices they make.
Members also will gain options on the length of their contract term. They can continue the current notice period of two years, and receive a discount, or they can choose one-year terms of service.
Member Choice Complete, the text service all newspaper members now receive, will continue. It provides full access to all of AP’s English language reporting, including all state reports, full sports agate and coverage, financial markets reporting, and other content categories. Complete comes with tools for localizing or customizing the report for local interests or niche publications.
In 2010, AP will launch Member Choice Limited, a very light text service of just the top national and international news for papers that have minimal coverage needs or are under financial constraints.
AP also created optional categories of text news so members can further adjust content and costs. Members taking Complete will be able to opt out of any of four categories: Sports, Lifestyles, Money & Markets or News Analysis. Papers dropping to Limited service can opt in or add back any of the four categories.
For more information about service changes, talk to Bureau Chief Dale Leach or Assistant Bureau Chief Barry Bedlan. To learn more about the AP's annual meeting, including reading the speeches of CEO Tom Curley and Board Chairman Dean Singleton, visit http://www.ap.org/annual09/.
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Access Content via Over 100 Subject Areas in AP Exchange
Members can now access content in AP Exchange via over 100 different subject areas. In the left column of AP Exchange, members can now look for a new tab called "Browse Topics." By clicking "Show All," in a few seconds all of a member’s AP text stories will be organized into scores of subject areas. Simply point and click any of these topics to access content sorted into these deep, rich categories. The categories are three levels deep and can easily be turned into a Saved Search so you can be alerted via e-mail when stories in niche topics move on the AP wire.
For more information on this feature or on AP Exchange, visit http://www.ap.org/apexchange/.
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New Entertainment Digest
AP is launching a new cross-platform entertainment digest. The new digest, which debuted January 26, is similar to our current digest but is no longer print-centric and provides an outline of coverage to come in the next five days. The digest will move twice daily at 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Central Time.
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