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EVANSTON, Ill. — Instant, one-stop access to cutting-edge media management news from more than 1,000 worldwide media industry and general publications is at your fingertips through the newly launched www.MediaInfoCenter.org.

The comprehensive site from the Media Management Center at Northwestern University also provides real-time listings of the top 100 U.S. media stocks and an index of their performance. In addition, it has industry-specific and cross-media metrics for: newspapers; TV, cable and DBS; magazines; interactive media; film; music and radio. Using this information, visitors can compare revenues, market share and other industry, market and demographic information.

Said Professor John Lavine, the Center’s director, “…In no other place can media executives and analysts, as well as academics who are interested in the media, find such a breadth of media management and economic information in one place… Using this site as your home page will enable you to stay up-to-the-minute about media news as will no other single source we’ve seen. In addition, the site has no advertising or pop-up messages and it’s free.”

Lavine concluded, “In this era of explosive change, we, along with everyone in the media, owe a debt of gratitude to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for their willingness to sponsor our development of this site as a true public service.”

These news stories on the site come daily from FluentMedia, an information service of Tribune Company.

The Media Management Center is allied with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Medill School of Journalism. The Center educates senior-level executives from all of the media industries through seminars and publications. It also does research on some of the most challenging issues confronting the media industries today.

Visit www.MediaInfoCenter.org or www.knightfdn.org for further information about the Center or Knight Foundation. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation promotes excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in the vitality of 26 U.S. communities.

Contact: John Lavine at (847) 491-4900 or at j-lavine@northwestern.edu