Bio

The interactive online service for ABC News. The site provides the latest in domestic and international news via the Internet. Utilizing multimedia resources to report stories of the day, the site capitalizes on the knowledge and expertise of ABC News correspondents around the world. It is able to present news differently from traditional media by utilizing multimedia resources to report the stories of the day. The site has gone beyond the boundaries of traditional news sources by becoming one of the Web's technological news leaders, providing text, audio and video, as well as giving users a chance to customize their news from a large database of information. ABCNews.com provides direct links to its television counterpart news shows Good Morning America, World News Tonight, 20/20, Primetime, Nightline, WNN (World News Now) and This Week. The site incorporates ABC's longstanding coverage of domestic and international news, including News Summary, US, International, MoneyScope, Weather, Local News, Entertainment, ESPN Sports, Sci/Tech, Politics, Health, Travel, and Video and Audio. ABCNews.com offers ABC News On Demand, which allows subscribers to watch streaming video news reports, programs and exclusive segments from various ABC News programs. Users also have access to ABC News Live, a 24/7 news network for a broadband audience. The service provides high speed Internet users with live event coverage, breaking news, news clips and reports from many of ABC News programs, including World News Tonight and Nightline. Other features on ABCNews.com include video alerts, stock market quotes and Back Page headlines. As of January 2006, ABCNews.com is the exclusive representative for the British Broadcasting Corporation for BBC News on demand broadband and wireless content in North America. The BBC offers approximately 40 on demand reports per day for broadband and wireless distribution in North America. This marks the first time a U.S. news network has joined an international news organization to leverage content offerings, and expands an established relationship between ABC News and the BBC that began in 1994. In January 2006, ABC News launched Seen & Heard, a viewer-submitted video footage service for for the public to send still or video images to ABC through the Web site for use on ABC News programs and online at ABCNews.com. ABC states, "Sometimes the person with the closest view of the news is an average citizen with a digital camera." The outlet offers a digital Podcast.