Africa: AllAfrica Offers Enhanced Delivery Options through Acquire Media

8 April 2016
allAfrica.com
press release

Washington, DC — AllAfrica has teamed with long-time distribution partner Acquire Media to offer enhanced delivery options for its unique collection of original reporting and articles from leading African publications.

“Acquire Media has been a trusted distributor of our content collection for over five years,” said Reed Kramer, Chief Executive Officer of AllAfrica Global Media. “Acquire Media’s unparalleled ability to deliver our content in any format including XML or JSON and through any delivery channel makes them the perfect partner for enhanced delivery options to our customers.”

“We are excited to have AllAfrica partner with us to offer enhanced delivery options to its customers,” said Brad Scher, CEO of Acquire Media. “At Acquire Media, we specialize in giving the down-stream users exactly the format they need through the delivery mechanism they prefer.”

“We also preserve the publisher’s metadata and enhance the content with our sophisticated identification of places, persons, and entities,” Scher said.  “In addition to entity extraction, Acquire Media categorizes all the content using our advanced ACME subject, industry, and location taxonomies. Using our sophisticated Syndication Suite and our extensive format transformation libraries, Acquire Media can offer AllAfrica content in any format and by any delivery mechanism within hours of receiving this basic information,” Scher added.

About All Africa
AllAfrica Global Media is a systems technology developer and the leading distributor of African news and information worldwide. Through its popular website and on mobile devices and social media, AllAfrica serves a global audience policymakers, leaders of business and industry, international investors, analysts, diplomats, students, scholars and activists – decision takers and thought leaders around the world. Via the AllAfrica News Wire, AllAfrica aggregates news and information from more than 120 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every topic.  These include government, opposition-controlled papers and independent news publications across the continent.  AllAfrica also produces original reporting by an award-winning editorial team. On the web: allAfrica.com.

About Acquire Media
Acquire Media is an advanced technology company devoted to delivering text news and multimedia in formats that make the content usable and searchable for business professionals in need of reliable news and information. Acquire Media has clients in the news, digital publishing and financial services communities who depend on speedy delivery, cutting-edge technology, reliable 24x7 support, and an ability to handle multiple formats and delivery options for content from thousands of news sources. More than one half a million news articles are aggregated and optimized in near-real time to provide valuable insights and intelligence to business leaders throughout the world. On the web: www.acquiremedia.com.

Contact:
Don Rigg
Acquire Media
drigg@acquiremedia.com
Office: 973-577-1257
Mobile: 973-214-7705

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