PR Newswire Hosts Dinner Honoring Business Journalism's Top Luminaries

		I PR NEWSWIRE CEO AND PRESIDENT IAN CAPPS PR NEWSWIRE CEO AND PRESIDENT IAN CAPPS PR Newswire's CEO and president, Ian Capps, will host the recognition dinner for the Business News Luminaries of the Century Awards at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York on March 10, 2000. Capps, who has been part of the electronic information and global communications revolution for the past 35 years, has led PR Newswire's transformation from traditional wire service to advanced global information distributor. (PRNewsFoto)[KC] NEW YORK, NY USA

NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- PR Newswire and its CEO and president, Ian Capps, will host the Business News Luminaries of the Century Awards recognition dinner March 10, 2000, at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, TJFR Group announced today. (Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991012/HSTU001C ) The gala dinner will honor recipients of the TJFR Group/MasterCard International awards, which recognize 100 journalists and news executives who have changed the landscape of business news in this century. The event will bring together many of the most prominent and influential business journalists from the past century, and will feature presentations by some of today's leading journalists as well as a nationally respected keynote speaker. "This dinner event will celebrate the defining list of business journalists and executives in the 20th century," said Capps, who spent 17 years at Reuters as a financial journalist and executive. "Given PR Newswire's role as the leading provider of information to the media directly from companies for 45 years, we see this event as a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the rise of business news." Capps has been president and CEO of PR Newswire since 1992, leading its transformation from traditional wire service to advanced global information distributor with a vast wire, fax, satellite, e-mail and Internet network. He has been part of the electronic information and global communications revolution for the past 35 years. Members of the news media and avid business news consumers currently have the opportunity to help identify the 100 luminaries by nominating or endorsing an individual, living or deceased, at http://www.newsluminaries.com . Printed nomination forms also are available in TJFR Group's twice-monthly newsletter, TJFR Business News Reporter. Nominations, which close Oct. 31, will be screened by a panel of leading business reporters and editors, business executives, academics, and historians. TJFR's editorial staff will make final choices on the 100 individuals to be honored. TJFR Group will announce the award recipients in a special December issue of quarterly business journalism trade magazine. News organizations and companies interested in reserving tables for the March 2000 dinner may contact David Finell, dinner coordinator, at 303-296-1200, ext. 109. TJFR Group, http://www.tjfr.com, is the nation's leading source of information on business journalists and news organizations. Each year, TJFR recognizes the top 100 influential business journalists in the country, the best business and financial beat reporters and the 30 most promising business journalists under the age of 30. TJFR publishes a twice-monthly newsletter and a quarterly magazine in addition to conducting media relations workshops and conferences. In association with PR Newswire, TJFR offers on-demand biographies of more than 4,000 influential editors and writers via the FaxProfiles(TM) service. PR Newswire is the world leader in electronic delivery of information directly from companies, institutions, and agencies through its cutting-edge wire, fax, satellite, email, and Internet network. Forty-five years after founding the industry, it has 35 bureaus worldwide, an exclusive partnership with Canada NewsWire, and a vast international affiliate system. PR Newswire provides a broad complement of services for public relations and investor relations professionals to reach the media, financial community, and consumers. MasterCard International, http://www.mastercard.com, lead sponsor for the awards, has the most comprehensive portfolio of payment brands in the world. With 23,000 member financial institutions, serving consumers in 220 countries and territories, MasterCard is the industry leader in quality and innovation. Nearly 700 million Mastercard(R), Maestro(R), Cirrus(R), and Mondex(TM) cards are in circulation today. With more than 16 million locations, no card is accepted in more places and by more merchants than MasterCard.