Voxant’s Viral Syndication Network Offers Wide Range of Independent Middle East News Content in English

Voxant’s Viral Syndication Network Offers Wide Range of Independent Middle East News Content in English

Albawaba.com, The Mena Report and Pakistan Press Available to Web Publishers

Quality, independent news content from the Middle East, including Albawaba.com, The Mena Report and Pakistan Press, is available to affiliates of Voxant’s Viral Syndication Network through TheNewsRoom (http://www.thenewsroom.com/), Voxant announced today.

TheNewsRoom is a rich resource for Web publishers seeking English-language content from the Middle East on a variety of topics including general news, politics, business, entertainment and sports. All content in TheNewsRoom is available free of charge to Web publishers who join the company’s Viral Syndication Network.

Albawaba.com

As the largest independent content producer in the Middle East, Al Bawaba provides daily news feeds to the world’s top international publishers. Al Bawaba content is produced by an expert staff of experienced journalists, editors and researchers who report in Arabic, English and French. Al Bawaba is the only international news agency that provides Middle East coverage from a local perspective, using citizens of the region to provide unique insight, while striving to maintain the highest standards of impartial and professional journalism.

Content syndicated through TheNewsRoom is from Al Bawaba’s popular consumer portal, Albawaba.com, which features a range of content including news, sports, satire, entertainment, games, and more. Albawaba’s original Arabic offering is the most popular Internet site in the Middle East with one of the most developed Web directories in the Arab world, while its English version attracts a large audience from the United States and Europe. For more information, visit http://www.albawaba.com/.

The Mena Report

The Middle East and North Africa Business Report, known as the Mena Report, provides extensive coverage of business and economy in the Middle East region, structured by key industries and sectors. Mena Report has a strong following among the business leaders and decision-makers in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf region, and is popular with many Western corporations and international organizations who conduct business in the Middle East.

Pakistan Press

News, sports, entertainment and financial content from Pakistan Press International (PPI), Pakistan’s independent news agency is syndicated through TheNewsRoom by Newscom, a service created by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. Established in 1956, Pakistan Press has an extensive news file prepared by over 300 staff and stringers in all parts of the country. PPI has bureaus in Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta.

“TheNewsRoom’s addition of premiere Middle Eastern news content demonstrates our commitment to providing high-quality news for Web publishers who cover specific countries or regions of the world,” Voxant CEO Jeff Crigler said. “In addition to providing news from the top U.S. news organizations, we will continue to add this type of quality global content for our affiliates who want to cover international news from a local perspective.”

Voxant’s Viral Syndication Network makes it easy to distribute fully licensed video, print, audio and still photo content to millions of Web sites and blogs. Content obtained from TheNewsRoom may be redistributed through viral mashing(TM), Voxant’s unique process of embedding news content and advertising on an infinite number of sites. Voxant’s advertising-supported network is free to Network members and provides a new revenue stream to originating content providers and everyone who mashes the content.

About Voxant and TheNewsRoom

Voxant’s Viral Syndication Network(TM) for online news unlocks new markets for news organizations and advertisers around the world, helping them get their content found, played, and paid for on the millions of Web sites and blogs that comprise the “long tail” of the Web. Through TheNewsRoom(TM) (http://www.thenewsroom.com/) and its unique viral mashing(TM) technology, Voxant distributes and promotes news for Network affiliates such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Press, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Denver Post, Newsvine and HowStuffWorks, as well as a variety of Web publishers and bloggers. Our affiliates represent 150 sources of credible, licensed content and more than two billion page views per month. For more information, please visit http://www.voxant.com/.