1026 East 36th Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: (410) 235-3073
Email: president@nfbmd.org
Access to Newspapers
NFB-NEWSLINE for the Blind
(410) 659-9314 x 2356
Information:
(866) 504-7300
Obtain a local Newsline Number:
(888) 882-1629
Web site: http://www.nfbnewsline.org
NFB-NEWSLINE® for the Blind, the world's first free talking newspaper service, which offers consumers the complete texts of hundreds of leading national and local newspapers with the use of only a touch-tone telephone. NFB-Newsline also provides access to television program listings. Some of the magazines included in the NFB-Newsline service are publications by AARP, The New Yorker, The Economist, and Diabetes Self Management. NFB-Newsline also contains a few publications in Spanish.
NFB-Newsline provides access to such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal by telephone. Any person who cannot read conventional newsprint can qualify.
Subscribers can access this free service beginning at 6:30 a.m. of the publication date. The daily papers remain available for two days; the Sunday papers remain available for the week.
How To Sign Up
Anyone who cannot read printed newspapers due to blindness or a physical disability is eligible to receive NFB-NEWSLINE®. Register by calling the Maryland State Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, or by calling the National Federation of the Blind toll-free at 1 (866) 504-7300 to request an application. You may also download an application in PDF format or fill out our online form to register. After your registration is processed, you'll receive a letter containing your activation codes and instructions for how to begin reading the newspaper with NFB-NEWSLINE®.