Live From ATX: CultureMap Launches in the Texas Capital
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Posted on July 28, 2011 at 9:35:01 AM
Live From ATX: CultureMap Launches in the Texas Capital
DAILY DIGITAL MAGAZINE MAKES HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT
HOUSTON, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CultureMap (http://www.culturemap.com) - a daily digital magazine for Austin announced its highly anticipated launch with unique, 24/7 coverage of culturally relevant news, information, events and features for the local community. CultureMap has run successfully in Houston for two years and aims to be the source for lifestyle, arts, and cultural news in Texas' capital city.
Heading up the CultureMap editorial team is Editor-in-Chief Kevin Benz, who served for 11 years as News Director of News 8 Austin, Time Warner Cable's 24-hour Newschannel. He is also the current Chair-elect of the RTDNA (Radio Television Digital News Association) national board and recently served as chairman of the Texas Associated Press Broadcaster's board of directors. Benz is working side-by-side CultureMap's Managing Editor Caitlin Ryan, former Editor-in-Chief of Rare magazine, a monthly cultural, lifestyle magazine in Austin. The duo will lead a full-time newsroom as well as a growing stable of columnists and contributors.
"Austin was always at the top of the list for our first expansion market," said CultureMap CEO Stephen Newman. "CultureMap is a perfect fit for Austin's ever-evolving vibrant city life because it covers all the things that make the quality of life here so amazing."
Indeed, Austin's highly developed music, film, arts, entertainment, restaurant, political, sports, and social scenes are ripe for extensive, insider and thought-provoking coverage from the website's eclectic group of informed columnists and contributors. The website also works as a location-aware city guide with listings of Austin's best restaurants, bars & clubs, shopping, arts/entertainment and things that are uniquely Austin - along with insider information, key facts and individual maps for hundreds of venues and growing.
CultureMap Austin was first announced in April 2011 as a joint venture between CultureMap LLC and LIN Media (NYSE: TVL), a multimedia company that owns, operates or services 32 network-affiliated broadcast television stations, niche websites, mobile platforms, performance-based local and national advertising solutions, and other digital services in 17 U.S. markets, including Austin's KXAN-TV (NBC), KNVA-TV (CW) and KBVO-TV (MyNetworkTV).
ABOUT CULTUREMAP AUSTIN
A daily digital magazine revolutionizing the local news format - CultureMap brings a 24/7 mentality to covering lifestyle and culturally relevant news, information, events and features delivered digitally through the web, mobile, tablet and social media platforms. Building on the success of the Houston-based original, CultureMap launched in Austin on Monday, July 18, 2011, covering the region's lifestyle and cultural news with a highly-regarded stable of editors, writers, and photographers. Intelligent and insightful, CultureMap's trademark insider knowledge and unique reporting offers a bold new voice to Austin journalism. For more information, please visit http://www.culturemap.com.
SOURCE CultureMap
CultureMap
CONTACT: Mark Sullivan of On the Mark Communications, +1-713-978-5050, mark@onthemarkcom.com, for CultureMap
Web Site: http://www.culturemap.com
DAILY DIGITAL MAGAZINE MAKES HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT
HOUSTON, July 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CultureMap (http://www.culturemap.com) - a daily digital magazine for Austin announced its highly anticipated launch with unique, 24/7 coverage of culturally relevant news, information, events and features for the local community. CultureMap has run successfully in Houston for two years and aims to be the source for lifestyle, arts, and cultural news in Texas' capital city.
Heading up the CultureMap editorial team is Editor-in-Chief Kevin Benz, who served for 11 years as News Director of News 8 Austin, Time Warner Cable's 24-hour Newschannel. He is also the current Chair-elect of the RTDNA (Radio Television Digital News Association) national board and recently served as chairman of the Texas Associated Press Broadcaster's board of directors. Benz is working side-by-side CultureMap's Managing Editor Caitlin Ryan, former Editor-in-Chief of Rare magazine, a monthly cultural, lifestyle magazine in Austin. The duo will lead a full-time newsroom as well as a growing stable of columnists and contributors.
"Austin was always at the top of the list for our first expansion market," said CultureMap CEO Stephen Newman. "CultureMap is a perfect fit for Austin's ever-evolving vibrant city life because it covers all the things that make the quality of life here so amazing."
Indeed, Austin's highly developed music, film, arts, entertainment, restaurant, political, sports, and social scenes are ripe for extensive, insider and thought-provoking coverage from the website's eclectic group of informed columnists and contributors. The website also works as a location-aware city guide with listings of Austin's best restaurants, bars & clubs, shopping, arts/entertainment and things that are uniquely Austin - along with insider information, key facts and individual maps for hundreds of venues and growing.
CultureMap Austin was first announced in April 2011 as a joint venture between CultureMap LLC and LIN Media (NYSE: TVL), a multimedia company that owns, operates or services 32 network-affiliated broadcast television stations, niche websites, mobile platforms, performance-based local and national advertising solutions, and other digital services in 17 U.S. markets, including Austin's KXAN-TV (NBC), KNVA-TV (CW) and KBVO-TV (MyNetworkTV).
ABOUT CULTUREMAP AUSTIN
A daily digital magazine revolutionizing the local news format - CultureMap brings a 24/7 mentality to covering lifestyle and culturally relevant news, information, events and features delivered digitally through the web, mobile, tablet and social media platforms. Building on the success of the Houston-based original, CultureMap launched in Austin on Monday, July 18, 2011, covering the region's lifestyle and cultural news with a highly-regarded stable of editors, writers, and photographers. Intelligent and insightful, CultureMap's trademark insider knowledge and unique reporting offers a bold new voice to Austin journalism. For more information, please visit http://www.culturemap.com.
SOURCE CultureMap
CultureMap
CONTACT: Mark Sullivan of On the Mark Communications, +1-713-978-5050, mark@onthemarkcom.com, for CultureMap
Web Site: http://www.culturemap.com