Bloomberg Users Now Get Live Feed Of The New York Times

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- Bloomberg is First to Offer The Times in Real Time

Bloomberg L.P., the leading provider of information and analytic tools for businesses and professionals, will provide the first live feed of The New York Times on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service.

Bloomberg subscribers will now be able to see at no additional charge the complete newspaper, as well as blogs, posts on the Web site and breaking news alerts from The Times. Subscribers will also have access to an archive of articles from The Times going back almost 30 years.

Bloomberg is the first information system to carry and host a live feed of content from The Times. It joins more than 100 news services on the all-inclusive BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service, including Associated Press, Gannett, United Press International, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Agence France-Presse, ANSA, Xinhua News Agency, Kyodo News, Agencia O Globo, Asahi Shimbun, Agencia EFE, Yomiuri Shimbun, Comtex News Network, Agencia Estado and others. Bloomberg subscribers see instantaneous third-party news and links to more than 30,000 Web-based news sources.

These third-party news sources and other critical information are integrated on a single platform with Bloomberg’s powerful data, analytics and the award-winning BLOOMBERG NEWS(R) service. The BLOOMBERG NEWS service continues to expand with the addition of more than 100 reporters and editors and 5 news bureaus this year.

Bloomberg is committed to adding more value to the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service, continually enhancing the depth and breadth of its product to give the world’s financial professionals all of the critical economic, financial, political and industry news and data that affects their portfolios, investments and businesses, as it happens. The addition of The Times content reflects the importance of timely news for financial professionals.

Bloomberg has applied its leading capabilities in news, data and analytics to design a platform that collects news in 38 languages and lets users create real-time alerts and searches based on thousands of topics, securities and people.

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Angela Martin of Bloomberg LP, +1-212-617-1211, angelamartin at bloomberg.net