The Express launches online blog-like version

From an Express e-press release:

Express Partners with Oodle to Launch New Site: www.readexpress.com

Newspaper Expands to Web to Connect Audience, Build Community

WASHINGTON, DC and SAN MATEO, Calif., April 10, 2006- Express and Oodle TM, the search engine for local classifieds, today announced the launch of readexpress.com, a Web companion to the popular free newspaper for the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Express is owned by The Washington Post Company.

Readexpress.com is a new Web site designed to serve the roughly 500,000 people who read the Express newspaper each day in the Washington D.C. metropolitan market. The new site offers frequently updated features and a variety of interactive tools including locally-oriented blogs, real-time polling on hot issues and a lively classifieds marketplace. The site will also feature a dynamic map centered on local classifieds, and extensive restaurant and entertainment listings drawn from Express and washingtonpost.com.

I'm not sure I have time to read another blog... but it looks pretty interesting. My understanding is that ex-DCist editor Michael Grass is pretty involved in the launch of this online version, which adds a fair amount of "local commentary" in comparison to the hard copy.

I haven't read today's Express yet, so I don't know if the printed version is going to add the local "color" that I see in the blog-like version that is online.

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