Ms. Lynne M. Tierney

Lynne Tierney, Nightly Business Report

Accepting the award is Lynne M. Tierney, Consulting Director, New Media, for Nightly Business Report.

Recognizing the importance of the Internet early on, in 1994, Nightly Business Report was the first business program to forge an online link with AOL.
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Accepting the award is Lynne Tierney, Consulting Director, New Media, for Nightly Business Report.Fritz Golman, President of Internet Television Network, is standing behind her.

This award, nominated by the public and judged by such an eminent group of experts, justifies our belief that NBR is providing the public with a quality business news and personal finance information source that is both creative and on the cutting edge..

In addition to NBR, finalists in the Streamers Newsroom Award competition included : KGW/Northwest Cable News and InternetNews Radio.RealNetworks Streamers Awards are dedicated to recognizing excellence in streaming media, seeking out the very best on the Web. The awards recognize creators of sites who use innovation and imagination.The finalists, in nine categories, were nominated by public voting on the Web.

Accepting the award is Lynne M. Tierney, Consulting Director, New Media, for Nightly Business Report.

"Recognizing the importance of the Internet early on, in 1994, Nightly Business Report was the first business program to forge an online link with AOL.
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Accepting the award is Lynne Tierney, Consulting Director, New Media, for Nightly Business Report.

"Our goal [with the Web site] is not to be a financial portal but to be a resource and provide deeper understanding and tools and information," said Lynne M. Tierney, consulting director of new media at Nightly Business Report, Miami.
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"We're not trying to collect names," Ms. Tierney said when asked about promotional drives or e-mail newsletters for the site.

She said that 57 percent of visitors are repeat visitors, and a majority of them spend more than 12 minutes on the site.The site recruits visitors through the television broadcast, the PBS search engine and tie-ins with other PBS pages.

NBR may pursue online video and mobile technology to engage viewers with other channels in the future.The broadcast's character is one of constant innovation and improvement, Ms. Tierney said.

"We've always seen ourselves as entrepreneurial and scrappy," she said.