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Overview

Would you like a newspaper with your morning cup of coffee? NFB-NEWSLINE^® added its 250th newspaper in 2007 AND it's still growing. Four Spanish-language newspapers are now available to all subscribers.  The service handles thousands of phone calls each day for individuals across the country who now access daily newspapers and magazines as never before. The toll-free centralized call-in center provides service on demand to any subscriber. This also enables those who cannot read conventional print to have access to all content offered on NFB-NEWSLINE^® when traveling throughout the United States twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

Every day, a subscriber can choose that day's, the previous day's, or the previous Sunday's issue of any newspaper in the service. On NFB-NEWSLINE^®, the user can easily choose which newspaper, section, and article to read using a standard touch-tone telephone. The menu provided allows the user to change the speed and voice settings, spell out words, or search for a particular word or subject.

NFB-NEWSLINE^® now offers more choices than ever, including special local channels to distribute announcements of specific interest to the blind.

THE NEW YORKER, THE ECONOMIST, AARP the MAGAZINE, Science News, and DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT are on NFB-NEWSLINE^®

Arts and culture, national and international news are available on NFB-NEWSLINE^® through magazines. Just press Option 7.

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must be legally blind or have a physical or a learning disability that prevents you from reading the paper independently. Your eligibility is not dependent on, or restricted to, affiliation with any particular consumer or support organization; the only thing that matters is that you cannot read the newspaper. If you are signed up for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, you already qualify for NFB-NEWSLINE®!

Please select one of the links below to learn more about NFB-NEWSLINE^®.

Who Can Benefit?

>Anyone who cannot read conventional newsprint could qualify for this free service. Many seniors have lost enough vision that reading the daily newspaper is no longer possible. They will enjoy being able once again to participate actively in community affairs. Blind children are now able to research their own civics assignments and do their homework independently. NFB-NEWSLINE^® is the only service that makes so much information available to these eligible people twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

Partners Needed

To be included in the service, each state must be funded. Members of the National Federation of the Blind across the country are working to find NFB-NEWSLINE^® sponsors as quickly as possible from interested organizations, agencies, and individuals. We are also seeking new newspapers and magazines to add to the service. Would you like to help? Please contact us to find out how to help.

Now the Blind Have Access to Newspaper Information

Lifetime learning, including detailed awareness of current events, is part of what makes a good citizen, a successful employee or employer, and a valuable participant in community life. Without ready access to information, none of us can reach his or her full potential. Until 1995, the nation's blind did not have the promise of ready access to a fundamental source of such information--the daily newspaper. But now the National Federation of the Blind has created NFB-NEWSLINE^®.

NFB-NEWSLINE^® is at last making it possible for blind individuals to gain access to the information in newspapers at the same time as their sighted colleagues, friends, and family members. Blind professionals, for example, can now converse on relevant topics, no longer being under informed about information critical to their professions or left out at social functions when the latest editorial is discussed. Beyond this, a wealth of information primarily found in newspapers is now available to the blind on an equal footing, making possible their participation in the life of the community on the basis of equality.

The Internet provides sighted individuals access to thousands of newspapers and magazines with just a quick search. NFB-NEWSLINE^® is the only system that will bring the blind so much to choose from at the time when the subscriber wishes to read. More and more papers are beginning to understand that blind and visually impaired individuals, just as the sighted, need to have access to their local papers. The numbers of participating papers are steadily growing. If you wish to have your local paper on NFB-NEWSLINE^®, or are connected with a newspaper which would like to provide the text of its paper to those who cannot read print, contact the National Federation of the Blind.

Available Texas Newspapers and Magazines

The following Texas newspapers and magazines are available through NFB Newsline. The table below lists the city followed by the name of the newspaper. Magazines are noted with the word "Magazine."

Newspapers and Magazines of Texas

City	Newspaper or Magazine Name
Amarillo	Amarillo Globe News
Austin	Austin American Statesman
Beaumont	Beaumont Enterprise
Corpus Christi	Corpus Christi Caller Times
Dallas	Dallas Morning News
El Paso	El Paso Times
Fort Worth	Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Houston	Houston Chronicle
Lubbock	Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Monitor
Mcallen	La Frontera Mcallen
San Antonio	San Antonio Express News
Tyler	Tyler Morning Telegraph
Victoria	Victoria Advocate
Magazine>	Texas Monthly

Introducing NFB Newsline Online:

All of the information that you love on NFB-NEWSLINE®,

is now on the web!

NFB-NEWSLINE® Online is the newest and most exciting way of accessing your favorite content. You can read it on the Web, download it to your Victor Reader Stream or to a portable MP3 player, or you can have the publications and TV listings read to you over your computer using the same functions as with traditional, phone-based, NFB-NEWSLINE®. Firstly, you must be an NFB-NEWSLINE® subscriber. To subscribe, please complete an application form. Like with the e-mail delivery, you will need to fill out an agreement form for non-distribution. If you would like to use the NFB-NEWSLINE® Online, please read and agree to our Terms of Use agreement which will be displayed after entering your codes for the first time.

Presentation

The morning session of the 2009 NFB Annual Convention ended with a presentation from Scott White, NFB director of sponsored technology, in which he detailed for convention delegates the four new initiatives that our NFB-NEWSLINE team has developed to give people even greater access to the hundreds of newspapers and television listings on the system. Select the link below to hear his presentation and demonstrations.

">NFB-NEWSLINE: From Phone to Computer to Podcast to Pocket, (MP3) 12 MB

For additional information and to begin using NFB Newsline Online visit:

http://www.nfbnewslineonline.org.

For Further Information

For additional details about NFB Newsline for the Blind Texas Residents should contact: