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NewsBank company history timeline

1972

The company was launched in 1972.

1973

Naisbitt left NewsBank in 1973.

1983

In 1983, NewsBank acquired Readex.

1986

In 1986, NewsBank had one hundred employees in-house.

Chris Andrews was brought on in 1986 as product manager for CD-ROM. His job was to help the company transition from a paper format of delivery to libraries, so that its indexes and full-text articles were available in CD-ROM format.

1992

In 1992, NewsBank had difficulty providing its users with a method to search for information based upon a specific location.

1993

The company announced in 1993 a CD-ROM product indexing full text of 35 publications including The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

1998

By 1998, NewsBank provided indexes via CD-ROM to newspaper articles from over 450 cities in the United States.

2001

In 2001, NewsBank compiled the Foreign Broadcast Information Service index and made it available via CD-ROM. NewsBank joined forces with Micromedia, Ltd., a division of IHS Canada, to help distribute its products in 2001.

2005

In 2005, NewsBank was structured in a pay-for-use format, with access differentiated for different types of users including public libraries, public schools, as well as higher education settings.

2011

NewsBank reached an agreement in 2011 with The Daily Northwestern newspaper of Northwestern University to archive all of its historical publications.

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1972
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