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Tribune Newspapers Collaborate to Tell
Stories of Sept. 11 Victims
Database and editorial
content serve as lasting online memorial
CHICAGO, October 26, 2001 -- Tribune
Company has launched a collaborative effort among its newspapers
to tell the stories of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
"Remembering the Lost" is a searchable
database and online memorial that currently lists more than
3,000 names through links to Tribune and New York area newspapers.
But names are only the beginning.
"Through careful reporting and editing,
Tribune newspapers are recounting powerful stories about the
victims of the terrorist attacks. Our journalists are working
hard to profile the victims and the lives they touched,"
said Howard Tyner, vice president/editorial, Tribune Publishing.
"This database, and the reporting that accompanies it,
forms a comprehensive online presentation that will be a valuable
tool for historians, students and the general public to learn
more about the impact of the tragedy."
Led by Newsday, which began profiling the victims
on Sept. 12 and has continued to tell their stories, the "Remembering
the Lost" database currently contains 400 profiles and
800 links to profiles from six Tribune and three metropolitan
area newspapers. More than 600 of the profiles include photographs.
"This project puts faces with the names,"
said Beth DeCarbo, Newsday's director of database development.
"These are people who had families, careers, hobbies
and hopes for the future. Our mission is to create a permanent,
comprehensive online memorial - a virtual legacy to all of
the lives that were lost."
Newsday's database now links to all newspapers
published by Tribune including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago
Tribune. In addition, the database links to three other metropolitan
area newspapers not owned by Tribune: the Newark Star-Ledger,
Journal News of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties
and Staten Island Advance.
On the Internet, go to www.newsday.com/911memorial
to view the database. Users can search by name, community
name and company name or browse all of the victims known to
date.
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operating businesses in broadcasting, publishing and on the
Internet. It reaches more than 80 percent of U.S. households,
and is the only media company with television stations, newspapers
and Web sites in the nation's top three markets. Tribune media
span 23 major-market television stations, including national
superstation WGN-TV; 12 market-leading daily newspapers, including
the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Newsday; and news
and information Web sites in 18 of the nation's top 30 markets.
Tribune Publishing is the leading U.S.
major-market newspaper group, with the third-largest circulation.
The company operates 11 market-leading daily newspapers: Los
Angeles Times; Chicago Tribune; Newsday; The Baltimore Sun;
South Florida Sun-Sentinel; Orlando Sentinel; The Hartford
Courant; The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.); Daily Press (Newport
News, Va.); The Advocate (Stamford, Conn.); and Greenwich
Time. Tribune Publishing also includes Tribune Media Services,
a leading provider of entertainment listings and content syndication
to print and electronic media, and two 24-hour cable news
channels: CLTV News in Chicago and Central Florida News 13,
a partnership with Time Warner Communications in Orlando. |
