KauaiWorld.com, the Web site of The Garden Island, is now part of the MSNBC.com national affilitate network. MSNBC.com is considered the number-one news Web site in the world, with millions of registered users. The site is co-owned by Redmond, Wash.-based
KauaiWorld.com, the Web site of The Garden Island, is now part of the MSNBC.com national affilitate network.
MSNBC.com is considered the number-one news Web site in the world, with millions of registered users. The site is co-owned by Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft and the NBC television network in New York City.
KauaiWorld.com is posting three Kaua’i news articles, one local sports article and a news photograph on MSNBC.com each day. The Garden Island’s stories and photographs will gain a much wider national and international audience.
The articles appear on a co-branded Web page that also features local weather coverage with reports from Lihue, plus links to a Kaua’i calendar of events taken from the pages of The Garden Island and select feature stories from the front page of KauaiWorld.com.
Web users can make the Kaua’i page on MSNBC.com appear each time they go to the Web site by clicking on the “Local” button on the left side of the front page of the Web site and selecting “Hawaii,” then choosing KauaiWorld.com as the local affiliate.
When a news story with national interest breaks on Kaua’i, MSNBC may integrate news coverage from KauaiWorld.com into MSNBC’s national breaking news coverage. When this happens, KauaiWorld.com’s logo will appear on pages read by hundreds of thousands of MSNBC users. Links back to the Kaua’i-based Web site will appear alongside the story if additional articles are online at KauaiWorld.com.
Though Kaua’i is without a local television station with nightly news, it will be the first island in Hawai’i to be a local affiliate of a Web site owned in part by a national television network. Honolulu-based Pacific Business News provides Hawai’i-based business articles to MSNBC.com, and the Associated Press posts a few statewide news articles each day.
The Kaua’i news stories will be posted about noon each weekday and several hours earlier on Saturdays and Sundays.
KauaiWorld.com’s pages can be found at .
Possible future enhancements include links to live streaming video feeds of breaking national news stories from MSNBC.com.
New-media manager Chris Cook can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 222) and mailto:ccook@pulitzer.net
