A unit of Media News Group Inc., the nation's seventh-largest newspaper publisher, DenverPost.com publishes online newsletters such as Bronco Extra.

"It was not just the vision of federated, single sign-on access to many content and audience-owning websites that moved us to choose Clickshare," said Eric Grilly, VP, Interactive Media for MediaNews Group. "It was the fact that Clickshare could deliver an immediate solution for managing sale to our own users, on a subscription basis, today."

The MediaNews agreement with Clickshare is part of a broader agreement, which could lead to providing single sign-on, multi-site user registration for 49 daily and 90 non-daily MediaNews properties, the two companies said. On Sept. 10, Clickshare began a similar service for the DallasNews.com unit of Belo Corp.

"We're delighted to be supporting MediaNews as it reaches out to consumers to provide timely, customized information in an easy-to-use format such as email newsletters," said Nell Fields, Clickshare's president and CEO. "Now, MediaNews can provide its subscribers nationwide with a means to purchase and enjoy enhanced services across its properties."

Fields said the Belo and MediaNews relationships are early examples of what Clickshare feels is strong demand for a universal sharing mechanism for selling content among multiple customer groups, and protecting customer personal information. The effort is in conjunction with PublishMail LLC, of Boulder, Colo., which is delivering the newsletters and managing customization of the service and has been providing Media News Group with e-mail publishing services since 2000.

"DenverPost.com's integration of Clickshare's and PublishMail's services brings ever greater flexibility and possibilities to email publishing, online transactions, and consumer privacy," said James Tailer, president of PublishMail. "It's a model for how two leading vendors can bring even greater value to publishers." He called Clickshare's multi-site transaction platform "unique."

"We're very pleased that the smooth coordination between PublishMail and Clickshare enabled us to quickly launch a premium service without extra stress on our own staff," added Todd Engdahl, editor of DenverPost.com. "Like many Web sites, we're very interested in experimenting with premium content services, and the help of our vendors made it possible."

About MediaNews Group
MediaNews Group, Inc. is the nation's seventh largest newspaper company, with headquarters in Denver. MediaNews Group publishes 49 daily newspapers and 94 non-daily publications in 12 states with daily and Sunday circulation of approximately 2.1 million and 2.2 million, respectively. MediaNews Group maintains 74 Web sites for its daily newspapers and an umbrella site, newschoice.com.. In addition, MediaNews Group owns a CBS affiliate and a radio station in Anchorage, Alaska and four radio stations in Texas.

About Clickshare
The Clickshare Service is an Internet transaction infrastructure for privacy-protected purchasing of text, music, video, software, and other products and services. Partners such as publishers, banks, ISPs, associations, retailers and other telecommunications carriers use it to enhance, extend and share customer relationships with publishers and entertainment providers.

Clickshare allows a consumer to have one account at a most-trusted "infomediary", and to purchase information from across the web without having to repeatedly enter credit-card information, register repeatedly or surrender personal information. The result is one account, one ID, one bill simplicity.

Clickshare's clients and partners include Belo Corp., Multi Service Corp., Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, Comtex News Network Inc., China Online Inc., HomeTips.com, uclick.com (Andrews McMeel/Universal Press) and others.

Clickshare has offices in Williamstown, Mass. , and Portland, Maine. Its investors include Sawgrass Seacoast Investors LLC and private individuals, including founding executives of PeopleSoft Inc., and the former publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Chicago Sun-Times. Its executives, board and advisors include veterans of the publishing and credit-card industries.

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Related Links:
http://www.publishmail.com/html/medianews.html http://www.clickshare.com/news/2001-09-10-belo_interactive.shtml

Contacts:
For MediaNews Group:
Eric Grilly, (303) 563-6410, [egrilly@medianewsgroup.com]

For Clickshare:
Edward Bride, 413-442-7718 [bride@clickshare.com]
Bill Densmore, 877-340-0436 [densmore@clickshare.com]