REMINDER/The Bridge to the 21st Century Newsroom is Here.

Business Editors/Interactive & Multimedia Writers

REMINDER...for Tuesday, Jan. 18

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Newstream.com Launches Via `Live' Webcast

WHAT: Newstream.com (www.newstream.com), the world's first multimedia Internet news portal designed by online journalists for online journalists, will launch during an upcoming `live' webcast.

Join us for an enlightening discussion and demonstration of Newstream.com, a journalist-only Internet news portal that provides online media with a continuous stream of multimedia news content from top corporations and organizations worldwide for use on their news Web sites or in traditional publications.

The `live` webcast features Paul Sagan, one of the Internet's most celebrated visionaries and president and chief operating officer of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), and Les Blatt, managing editor of Newstream.com and former senior producer of ABCNews.com.

Laurence Moskowitz, president and CEO of Medialink Worldwide Inc. (Nasdaq: MDLK) and Cathy Baron Tamraz, chief operating officer of Business Wire, will add their unique insights into the Internet newsroom of the future and the online journalist's growing need for multimedia content.

For more than 6,000 news and information sites globally, multimedia content delivery is the central element of the 21st century newsroom. Newstream.com will reach all of them.

WHEN: Tuesday, January 18, 2000

TIME: 11:30 a.m. ET - 12:00 p.m.

WHERE: http://webevents.broadcast.com/newstream/1/

The `live' webcast will include a glimpse of Newstream.com's myriad features and capabilities to deliver multimedia content to online and traditional journalists. Also, the `live' webcast will include a Q&A session (webcast@newstream.com) for online viewers.

Listening to the webcast requires access to the Internet and the free Real Audio Player G2 or Microsoft's Windows Media Player, both available from Newstream.com's web site. An archive of the webcast will also be made available for 90 days. Check the Newstream.com (www.newstream.com), Business Wire (www.businesswire.com) and Medialink (www.medialink.com) Web sites for additional information on the `live' webcast.