CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 23, 2009 - Charlotte Area News, an online news hub that aggregates news from regional media into one site, launched a new website design Monday and announced listings in national media directories.
CharlotteAreaNews.com is now included in national media directories produced by Cision (formerly Bacon's) and is attracting an increasing flow of news from across the country. However only news stories related to the Charlotte area are published.
The website also launched a new design format Monday (Nov. 23) including a wider page, dropdown menu and original local news on the front page.
"We encourage local organizations and public relations firms to send news releases and photos as jpegs to our site," said Buck Lawrimore, president of Lawrimore Communications Inc., the Charlotte marketing firm which publishes CharlotteAreaNews.com as a public service. "However we are seeking to complement, not compete with, dBusinessNews and Carolina Newswire, both of which focus on regional business news.
"We also value our win-win relationship with local news media, which provide us much of our content, and in return we send them readers whenever someone clicks on a story link or headline," he said.
CharlotteAreaNews.com features RSS feeds from regional newspapers and TV news departments, as well as national news from Google and Yahoo, Charlotte news on Twitter, a variety of weather reports, and Charlotte neighborhood news ranging from police reports to library books and restaurant reviews.
Original local news provided by local organizations is also sent overnight as an email newsletter and via Twitter at Twitter.com/charlottearea.
Lawrimore Communications Inc. is a full-service marketing agency providing market research and marketing plans, websites and Internet marketing, public relations and advertising, graphic design and brochures, online at www.Lawrimore.com.
