Nikkei-Asahi-Yomiuri partnership launches joint Web site

Posted by Leah McBride Mensching on January 31, 2008 at 10:32 PM

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, The Asahi Shimbun and The Yomiuri Shimbun have launched a joint Japanese-language Web site, called Aratanisu, on Thursday morning.

The three papers have come together to form the Nikkei-Asahi-Yomiuri Internet Business Partnership. The new site allows readers to read stories originally written for front and domestic news pages and editorials side-by-side online. Deputy managing editors for each of the three papers will also write essays for a featured section of the site, Henshu-kyoku kara (From the Editorial Bureau), The Yomiuri Shimbun reported Thursday.

The Aratanisu Web site also features experts, called “newspaper navigators,” from various fields in business and academia who will writing columns for the site.

“We hope that through browsing the Aratanisu pages, readers will rediscover the differences in coverage and editorial stance of the three leading papers, as well as enjoying reading the dailies,” The Yomiuri Shimbun stated.

In October, the three newspapers announced their agreement to form the online partnership, as well as jointly operate newspaper delivery services and assist one another on newspaper production should a disaster strike.

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