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The Post also publishes The Washington Post National Weekly Edition, a tabloid which contains selected articles
and features from The Washington Post edited for a national audience. The National Weekly Edition has a basic
subscription price of $78 per year and is delivered by second class mail to approximately 47,000 subscribers.
The Post has about 675 full-time editors, correspondents, reporters and photographers on its staff, draws upon the
news reporting facilities of the major wire services and maintains correspondents in 20 news centers abroad and in
New York City; Los Angeles; Chicago; Miami; and Austin, Texas. The Post also maintains reporters in 12 local news
bureaus.
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, LLC (‘‘WPNI’’) develops news and information products for
electronic distribution. Since July 1996 this subsidiary of the Company has produced washingtonpost.com, an
Internet site that features the full editorial text of The Washington Post and most of The Post’s classified advertising as
well as original content created by WPNI’s staff and content obtained from other sources. This site is currently
generating more than 160 million page views per month. The washingtonpost.com site also features comprehensive
information about activities, groups and businesses in the Washington, D.C. area, including an arts and entertain-
ment section and a news section focusing on technology businesses and related policy issues. This site has
developed a substantial audience of users who are outside of the Washington, D.C. area, and WPNI believes that
at least three-quarters of the unique users accessing the site each month are in that category. During the fall of 2002
WPNI began requiring most users accessing the washingtonpost.com site to register and provide their year of birth,
gender and zip code. The resulting information helps WPNI provide online advertisers with opportunities to target
specific geographic areas and demographic groups.
WPNI also produces the Newsweek Internet site, which was launched in 1998 and contains editorial content from
the print edition of Newsweek as well as daily news updates and analysis, photo galleries, Web guides and other
features.
WPNI holds a minority equity interest in Classified Ventures, LLC, a company formed to compete in the business of
providing nationwide classified advertising databases on the Internet. The Classified Ventures databases cover the
product categories of automobiles, apartment rentals and real estate. Listings for these databases come from various
sources, including direct sales and classified listings from the newspapers of participating companies. Links to the
Classified Ventures databases are included in the washingtonpost.com site.
Under an agreement signed in June 2000, WPNI and several other business units of the Company have been
sharing certain news material and promotional resources with NBC News and MSNBC. Among other things, under
this agreement the Newsweek Web site has become a feature on MSNBC.com, and MSNBC.com is being
provided access to certain content from The Washington Post. Similarly, washingtonpost.com is being provided
access to certain MSNBC.com multimedia content.
Community Newspaper Division of Post-Newsweek Media
The Community Newspaper Division of Post-Newsweek Media, Inc. publishes two weekly paid-circulation, three
twice-weekly paid-circulation and 39 controlled-circulation weekly community newspapers. This division’s newspa-
pers are divided into two groups: The Gazette Newspapers, which circulate in Montgomery, Prince George’s and
Frederick Counties and in parts of Carroll, Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland; and Southern Maryland
Newspapers, which circulate in southern Prince George’s County and in Charles, St. Mary’s and Calvert Counties,
Maryland. During 2002 these newspapers had a combined average circulation of approximately 670,000 copies.
This division also produces military newspapers (most of which are weekly) under agreements where editorial
material is supplied by local military bases; in 2002 the 11 military newspapers produced by this division had a
combined average circulation of over 200,000 copies.
The Gazette Newspapers and Southern Maryland Newspapers together employ approximately 165 editors, report-
ers and photographers.
This division also operates two commercial printing businesses in suburban Maryland.
The Herald
The Company owns The Daily Herald Company, publisher of The Herald in Everett, Washington, about 30 miles
north of Seattle. The Herald is published mornings seven days a week and is primarily distributed by home delivery in
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