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The Post has about 635 full-time editors, 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; Austin, Texas; and Seattle, Washington. The Post also maintains reporters in 12 local news bureaus.
On August 4, 2003, Express Publications Company, LLC (""Express Publications''), another subsidiary of the Company,
began publishing a weekday tabloid newspaper named Express , which is distributed free of charge using hawkers and
news boxes near Metro Stations and in other locations in Washington, D.C. and nearby suburbs with heavy daytime
sidewalk traffic. A typical edition of Express is 24 to 28 pages long and contains short news, entertainment and sports
stories as well as both classified and display advertising. Current daily circulation is approximately 145,000 copies.
Express relies primarily on wire service and syndicated content and is edited by a newsroom staff of 13. Advertising sales,
production, and certain other services for Express are provided by WP Company.
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Company, LLC (""WPNI'') develops news and information products for electronic
distribution. Since 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 The Post 's and WPNI's staffs and content obtained from other sources. This site is currently generating more
than 180 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 entertainment 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
who access the site each month are in that category. Since 2002 WPNI has required 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. In
February 2004 this registration process was modified to begin collecting additional information from users, including job
title and the type of industry in which the user works. WPNI also offers registered users the option of receiving various
e-mail newsletters that cover specific topics, including political news and analysis, personal technology, and entertainment.
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 2000 and amended in 2003, 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 website 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 newspapers 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
2003 these newspapers had a combined average circulation of approximately 680,000 copies. This division also
produces military newspapers (most of which are weekly) under agreements where editorial material is supplied by local
military bases; in 2003 the 12 military newspapers produced by this division had a combined average circulation of over
170,000 copies.
The Gazette Newspapers and Southern Maryland Newspapers together employ approximately 165 editors, reporters
and photographers.
This division also operates two commercial printing businesses in suburban Maryland.
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