Naked newsreader debuts on Web

Popular Web site NakedNews.com has hired its first male newsreader, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Since the debut of the Webcast in late 1999, during which the daily news is delivered in deadpan fashion while the reader bares all, four women have been hired. Lucas Tyler, 33, of Montreal, is the first male. His background is in banking, not journalism, but he claims now to be “up on most world events.” Lucas admits, “Getting naked was disconcerting at first. But the atmosphere was so professional that I quickly forgot that I was undressed.”