This is an announcement for the paper "On the expectation of the norm of random matrices with non-identically distributed" by Stiene Riemer and Carsten Schuett. Abstract: We give estimates for the expectation of the norm of random matrices with independent but not necessarily identically distributed entries. Archive classification: math.FA Submitted from: riemer@math.uni-kiel.de The paper may be downloaded from the archive by web browser from URL http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/1203.3713 or http://arXiv.org/abs/1203.3713