Jennings E-Mail Previews Evening Broadcast’S Stories

Sat., Oct. 23, 1999

Donna Petrozzello New York Daily News

ABC News has figured out a way to bring its evening “World News With Peter Jennings” not only into your living room every evening but to your personal e-mail file as well.

Beginning this week, Internet users can sign up at ABCNews.com to receive an e-mail from Jennings each afternoon describing that night’s top stories.

Calling the Internet “the new frontier of journalism,” Jennings in his first e-mail Monday chatted up the night’s lead story, on the budget battle brewing in Washington.

Jennings previewed a story about the College Board, the national agency that administers the SAT college entrance exam. And he gave a brief rundown of the broadcast’s reports about the dangers of high-protein diets and the incidence of car theft.

In addition to detailing what’s in store for viewers nightly, Jennings also provides some insight into how “World News Tonight” producers and staff determine which stories get top billing and how those stories are reported.

“I am pleased to be in touch with ABCnews.com users on a daily basis,” said Jennings. “I hope this will create a new relationship between `World News Tonight’ viewers and those of us who assemble the broadcast.”

Internet users can sign up for the daily message from Jennings by registering online for the service at www.ABCnews.go.com and then tapping the “World News Tonight” site.

At another ABC Web site, ABC2000online.com, the network provides news updated daily about millennium-themed events and celebrations scheduled to take place around the world just before the clock strikes midnight.

The site also addresses consumer questions and concerns about Y2K compliance, hosts a pop quiz about the millennium and offers historical trivia about the past century.

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