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Info about a new site: European News Services Prezz.com Prezz.com is a wholly independent media company backed by venture capital. We are neither owned by a major multinational publishing group nor subsidised by European Union institutions. Our head office is in Paris and we also have premises in Amsterdam. We provide European news from a European point of view and our articles are written by a continent-wide network of experienced journalists. We also have a core team of expert political reporters based in Brussels, the European Union's self-styled capital. Prezz.com is edited by Simon Coss, a former journalist with the highly respected EU affairs newspaper 'European Voice'. The company was founded in November 1999 by CEO Guikje Roethof and CFO Steef van Berkel. News on Prezz.com is free of charge and will be updated daily. We also offer a number of premium services for professional users: Companies can buy our news content to display on their own sites. For more information on specific possibilities in this area, write to us. Anyone in need of in-depth information on specific European Union policies can subscribe to our News Clips service, which provides detailed news on thirty different policy areas. The service is updated daily and can be fully customised in order to suit subscribers' individual information needs. Extremely busy customers can subscribe to our European News Alert service. Here users will be automatically contacted every time news on a pre-selected subject appears on Prezz.com. Management Team Guikje Roethof, founder and CEO, has worked as a journalist and broadcaster in the Netherlands and is a former member of parliament. She is an expert in telecom regulations and European affairs and is also a board member of the Dutch chapter of the Internet Society. Steef van Berkel, Chief Financial Officier, was formally a senior executive at ING, one of the Netherlands' leading banks. Simon Coss has worked as a journalist in radio, television and the print media. Before joining Prezz.com, he was a reporter with the highly respected and influential European affairs newspaper 'European Voice'. He has also worked as a radio journalist for the BBC in the UK and as a television producer for the European Commission. Editorial philosophy Prezz.com will seek to provide an independent view of life across the European continent and will not be subject to either political or commercial influence. News coverage will be balanced and will seek to portray all sides of the story. Editorial comment will be clearly labelled as such. We will make the utmost effort to ensure the accuracy of our stories but if we make genuine factual mistakes we will publish corrections. Wherever possible, the sources of information used in news coverage will be indicated although we reserve the right to protect a person's identity if we feel it is correct to do so. Comments can be addressed to [email protected]. We reserve the right to edit e-mails sent in for publication for reasons of space and clarity. Investor relations Prezz.com is a Dutch B.V. and a French S.A.S. and has received funding from several private investors. Strategic partners include Info.nl, Bibit Billing Services and Zoep.com. Why Prezz? Given the influence the European Union has on the everyday lives of hundreds of millions of ordinary people, it is still surprisingly difficult to get a clear picture of what is really going on in Europe. Most news coverage of events on the continent still tends to have a strong national bias, which means that people are often only presented with one or two pieces of a very complex jigsaw. Now more than ever, Europeans need to be aware of the big picture. The EU is currently embarking on the most ambitious project in its entire history. Within the next quarter of a century it is likely to almost double in size and include countries as economically and politically diverse as Turkey and Lithuania among its member states. This process will only be a success if people in both the countries planning to join the Union and those in states that are already members are fully involved in the historic changes taking place. To do this they will need clear unbiased information about the decisions being taken in their names. By providing European news from a European point of view, Prezz.com hopes to fill the information gap. As a fully independent company, we owe no favours to anyone. We do not receive funds from the European institutions in Brussels nor are we part of a major multinational media conglomerate. This gives us the freedom to report the facts as they are and not as someone else would like them to be. Prezz.coming soon! Magazines Six Weekly magazines looking at Travel, Style, Education, Sport, Cybernews and Culture. Premium Services We will soon be launching the following premium services specifically designed for business users. News Clips Access detailed, up to the minute information on all key European policy areas. topics.prezz.com for a sneak preview News Alert Receive automatic notification every time news on a subject of your choice appears on Prezz.com News to Go Buy news content from Prezz.com for use on your company's website or intranet. You can contact Prezz.com via the following e-mail addresses: Newsdesk If you have information about a story that you think our journalists should be covering, please e-mail: [email protected] Letters If you wish to comment about an article that has appeared on Prezz.com, please e-mail: [email protected] Please state clearly if you do NOT want us to consider publishing your comments. NB. We reserve the right to edit letters for reasons of clarity or length. Freelance contributions If you would like to work for Prezz.com as a freelance journalist, please e-mail: [email protected] NB: Please read our guidelines for freelancers thoroughly before contacting us. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]