NEWS CORP./MCI ONLINE VENTURES OFFERS FIRST-HAND, ONLINE COVERAGE OF UN
WORLD CONFERENCE ON WOMEN

New York, NY and China, September 7, 1995 -- News Corp./MCI Online Ventures
today announced that it has launched THE LONG MARCH: Women's
Rights/Beijing 95 -- a Web site that spotlights the UN s Fourth Annual
World Conference on Women being held in Beijing from September 4 through
September 15.

Through daily on-site coverage, feature stories, essays and interviews, a
virtual conference with celebrated commentators and engaging real life
stories told in pictures and sound, THE LONG MARCH Web site provides a
highly accessible, focused and meaningful area for those interested in
exploring the lives of women around the world and relating their
experiences to the discussions underway in Beijing. The site can be
accessed at http://www.delphi.com or http://www.internetMCI.com

"Every major news organization in the world is covering this extremely
important event. The News Corp./MCI Online Ventures News Center is doing
much more -- we're creating a virtual conference," stated Anthea Disney,
editor in chief of News Corp./MCI Online Ventures. "We are not providing
passive, two-dimensional coverage of the Conference that you'd expect from
print, TV or radio. Rather, we are fostering individual interaction
through multidimensional, direct, real links between participants in
Beijing, notable commentators, unsung heroines, and our subscribers as
events actually unfold."

We want to break through the news agenda set by traditional media to create
a new and much more personal and participatory experience valuable for
both men and women, said Jonathan Miller, editor of News Corp./MCI Online
Ventures News Center. We re applying the new tools of digital journalism
-- interactivity and multimedia -- with terrific journalism from
experienced correspondents at the scene. We are offering the Internet
community an experience almost as intense as could be achieved by actually
attending the conference itself.

Some of the key areas of THE LONG MARCH Web site include:

Scene Setter: Why are 50,000 women, from American bank presidents to
Bangladeshi peasant farmers, gathering to find common ground? Explore the
issues. Know the agenda and the players. Calculate the costs.

The Virtual Conference: Join Camille Paglia, authors Susan Faludi and Fran
Lebowitz, NPR s Linda Wertheimer, Children s Advocacy Center of Manhattan
founder Georgette Mosbacher, NOW President Patricia Ireland, and other
notable personalities as they debate conference issues and add their
perspectives to the Conference agenda. With a different personality in the
interactive forum every day, there will be plenty of diverse views and
opinions about the Conference and its impact. The Internet community is
invited to join the debate.

Reporter's Diary from Beijing: Personal, insightful, close-up letter from
Beijing every day by reporter Joanne Levine. Know first-hand the
experience of being followed everywhere by Chinese security. Visit China's
only women's hotline -- a hole in the wall haven in Beijing -- for
personal stories of living in China's male dominated society. Experience
divorce Chinese-style as Levine takes to the streets of Beijing to talk to
women who have left their husbands for a new economic independence.

News: Day-to-day breaking news updated continually illustrated by some of
the world s leading photographers.

Five Families: Women and girls from five families living in different parts
of the world describe their lives, their joys and their sorrows through
direct interviews, with photographs and sound. The interviews are taken
from an in-depth documentary project, Women: A Global Voice in the
Material World, to be published in the fall of 1996. Detailed information
about each country make the women's and girls' personal accounts all the
more vivid.

Essays: Norman Macrae of the London Sunday Times takes on the controversies
of the Conference; and Germaine Greer discusses what the Conference really
means to women and suggests it is driven mostly by the concerns of the
West.

Human Rights Abuses Against Women: Women tell what's happened to them - -
from forced abortions to imprisonment, to being stripped of a license to
practice law. The stories are told in the survivor s own words.

THE LONG MARCH Web site also features pointers to other sites relevant to
the Conference. The site will continue throughout the duration of the
Conference.

News Corp./MCI Online Ventures, a joint venture announced recently by News
Corp. and MCI to launch new Internet-based online services for businesses
and consumers, provides a wide range of interactive products and services
including original news programming, a comprehensive guide to the
Internet, a variety of games, an engaging online space for children, and a
host of specialized programming developed jointly with News Corp.
companies as well as with other non-affiliated partners.
 
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