Original sentence: It was the first newspaper publisher to experiment with videotex when it launched its Viewtron system in 1982, was one of the first to actively develop newspaper content for America Online in 1993, and joined the ill-fated New Century Network project in 1994
Edited sentence: (Kansas City Star, Ft.) Times-Leader) for $1.65 billion.In 1997 it bought four newspapers from the Disney Co.It was the first newspaper publisher to experiment with videotex when it launched its Viewtron system in 1982, was one of the first to actively develop newspaper content for the web.It was then the most expensive newspaper acquisition in the newspaper business.Worth Star Telegram, Belleville(Ill) News-Democrat and (Wilkes-Barre, Pa