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offering its iPad application on a free trial basis in November of 2010. It is anticipated that the Post will begin charging
for subscriptions in the future.
WP Company operates The Washington Post News Media Services, which offers a selection of content from the Post
and Bloomberg News, plus material from Company-owned Foreign Policy,Slate and The Root.
WP Company owns an interest in Classified Ventures, a newspaper industry company that offers online classified
advertising databases for cars and apartment rentals. Washingtonpost.com provides links to the Classified Ventures’
national car and apartment rental websites (cars.com and apartments.com).
WP Company has about 524 full-time editors, producers, reporters, photographers and videographers on its staff. WP
Company draws upon the news reporting facilities of the major wire services, maintains a network of correspondents and
contract writers in international news centers and maintains reporters in eight local news bureaus.
The Slate Group
The Slate Group LLC (The Slate Group) publishes Slate, an online magazine, and additional websites. Slate features
articles analyzing news, politics and contemporary culture and adds new material on a daily basis. Content is supplied
by the magazine’s own editorial staff, as well as by independent contributors. As measured by The Slate Group, Slate
had an average of more than 12.7 million unique visitors per month and averaged more than 87.4 million page views
per month in 2012. The Slate Group also publishes Slate V, an online video magazine, and The Root, an online
magazine focused on issues of importance to African Americans and others interested in black culture, offering daily news
and provocative commentary on politics and culture. The Slate Group owns an interest in E2J2 SAS, a company
incorporated in France that produces two French-language news magazine websites at slate.fr and slateafrique.com. The
Slate Group provides content, technology and branding support.
The FP Group
The FP Group produces Foreign Policy magazine and the ForeignPolicy.com website, which cover developments in
national security, international politics, global economics and related issues. The site features blogs, unique news content
and specialized channels and newsletters focusing on regions and topics of interest. The FP Group provides insight and
analysis into global affairs for government, military, business, media and academic leaders. FP Events also produces a
growing range of live programs bringing together government, military, business and investment leaders to discuss
important regional and topical developments and their implications.
Express Publications
Express Publications Company, LLC (Express Publications), another subsidiary of the Company, publishes Express,a
weekday tabloid newspaper, which is distributed free of charge using hawkers and news boxes near Metro stations and
in other locations in Washington, DC, and nearby suburbs with heavy daytime sidewalk traffic. A typical edition of
Express is 48 to 60 pages and contains short news, entertainment and sports stories, as well as both classified and
display advertising. Current daily circulation is approximately 180,000 copies. Express relies primarily on wire service
and syndicated content and is edited by a full-time newsroom staff of 23. Advertising sales and certain other services for
Express are provided by WP Company. The Express newsroom also produces a website called ExpressNightOut.com,
which features entertainment and lifestyle coverage of local interest.
Post–Newsweek Media
The Company’s Post–Newsweek Media, Inc. (PNM) subsidiary publishes two weekly paid-circulation, three twice-weekly
paid-circulation and 14 controlled-circulation weekly community newspapers. This subsidiary’s newspapers are divided
into three groups: The Gazette Newspapers, which circulate in Montgomery, Prince George’s and Frederick counties and
in parts of Carroll County, MD; Southern Maryland Newspapers, which circulate in southern Prince George’s County and
in Charles, St. Mary’s and Calvert counties, MD; and the Fairfax County Times, which circulates in Fairfax County, VA.
During 2012, these newspapers had a combined average weekly circulation of approximately 609,000 copies. PNM
also produces military newspapers (most of which are weekly) under agreements where editorial material is supplied by
local military bases, with the exception of one independent newspaper. In 2012, the eight military newspapers produced
by PNM had a combined average circulation of more than 102,000 copies.
The Gazette Newspapers have a companion website (Gazette.net) that includes editorial material and classified
advertising from the print newspapers. The Southern Maryland Newspapers’ website (SoMdNews.com) also includes
editorial and classified advertising from the print newspapers. The Fairfax County Times’ website (FairfaxTimes.com) also
includes editorials and classified advertising from the print newspapers. The military newspapers produced by PNM are
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