NEWSru

NEWSru

URL	newsru.com newsru.co.il newsru.ua
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	News site
Registration	Free/Subscription
Available language(s)	Russian, Ukrainian
Owner	Yelena Bereznitskaya-Bruni
Launched	August 28, 2000
Alexa rank	1,141 (November 2011[update])[1]
Current status	Active

NEWSru is one of the Russian online news sites.^[2] Originally it functioned as NTV's website under the address ntv.ru. The site remains part of Vladimir Gusinsky's media holding that includes a satellite TV broadcast company RTVi.

Yelena Bereznitskaya-Bruni replaced the initial Editor in Chief Igor Barchugov in 2001. The network has a head office in Moscow, Russia and two foreign posts. The network set up editorial offices in Israel and Ukraine.

History

The change of ownership at NTV was followed by a redesign of the news site which remained with the former NTV owner Vladimir Gusinsky.^[3][4]

In April 2001 the TV channel became part of OAO Gazprom Media.^[5][6]

In October 2002 the news site moved to another domain name, NEWSru.com^[7][8] and the original domain ntv.ru has been transferred to the broadcasting company under the mutual arrangement.

Projects

Besides the basic site, the NEWSru service owns a number of special interest news sites.

Among defunct projects is 2004.newsru.com, devoted in due time to Russian presidential election, 2004.^[9]

References

1. ^ "Newsru.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/newsru.com. Retrieved 2011-11-02. 
2. ^ Yulikova, Maria (February 2008). "My Media" (^{[dead link]}). Index on Censorship 37 (1): 179–182. doi:10.1080/03064220701882772. http://www.carnegie.ru/en/pubs/media/77876.htm. 
3. ^ "NTV.ru server revealed" (in Russian). Netoscope. 2000-08-28. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://netoscope.narod.ru/press-releases/27.html. 
4. ^ Khaitina, Natalia (2000-08-28). "NTV.ru site opened before the target date" (in Russian). Netoscope. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://netoscope.narod.ru/news/2000/08/28/147.html. 
5. ^ Khaitina, Natalia (2001-04-16). "NTV and NTV.ru — two big differences" (in Russian). Netoscope. Archived from the original on 2005-12-23. http://netoscope.narod.ru/news/2001/04/16/2074.html. 
6. ^ Khaitina, Natalia (2001-04-19). "NTV.ru left Ostankino" (in Russian). Netoscope. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://netoscope.narod.ru/theme/2001/04/19/2095.html. 
7. ^ Goncharov, Konstantin (2002-10-18). "NTVRU.com changes the name" (in Russian). Compulenta. http://www.compulenta.ru/2002/10/18/34790/. 
8. ^ "Update your "Favourites". The new name of our site is NEWSru.com" (in Russian). NEWSru.com. 2002-10-23. http://www.newsru.com/russia/23oct2002/ournewname.html. 
9. ^ "Presidential elections 2004 - Media". BalticData.info. http://www.balticdata.info/russia/elections/russia_elections_links_2.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-01. 

External links

• NEWSru.com (Russian)