IBT Media A fast- growing, digital news organization

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2 OVERVIEW IBT Media A fast- growing, digital news organization Founded in 2006, IBT Media is a fast- growing, digital news organization that delivers global news to an audience of over 40 million monthly unique visitors worldwide through its numerous digital publishing platforms and editions. IBT Media includes Newsweek, its flagship property International Business Times, along with an award- winning video portal Bizu.tv and other deep vertical consumer sites. IBT Media continues its growth through new product launches as well as strategic acquisitions. IBT Media produces original content and owns and operates all of its properties. Business Group Consumer Group B2B Group

3 OVERVIEW Newsweek Magazine 80 years of history A global news organization operating across all major platforms. No matter where you read or what you read on, Newsweek has a product for you. From a Twitter feed followed by millions to mobile apps across devices to a responsive website to a print magazine, get the news that reaches and influences decision makers anytime and anywhere. Newsweek.com is in sync with the 24/7 news cycle, giving readers a destination for breaking news, exclusives, and commentary on the issues of the day. Newsweek Magazine is a powerful combination of news, culture and ideas with a clear point of view: we get the first and final say on major stories of the day. Newsweek Magazine is edited for the voracious consumer of information, and designed to surprise, educate and delight. In the print component of a modern news ecosystem, Newsweek will deliver thought-provoking content to smart, successful readers. Both the digital and print platforms are the authoritative news outlets of choice for the sought-after thought-leader audience. Newsweek has both a U.S. and global edition including EMEA

4 EDITORIAL OVERVIEW Editor in Chief Jim Impoco Jim is a veteran editor whose ports of call have been The New York Times, Conde Nast Portfolio and Reuters, where he served as executive digital editor until January and was the brainchild of a glossy magazine that exported the newswire s big-thinker brand to the Davos set. He s well liked in New York media circles. Jim Pompeo, Capital New York Popular Tweets

5 EDITORIAL OVERVIEW Sample Full-time staff Foreign Coverage International Editor - Nicholas Wapshott is a British journalist and writer. He was a Reuters contributing columnist and an online content consultant to a number of media and private clients. He was the editor of The Times Saturday edition as well as the founding editor of The Times Magazine. He has written a number of biographies including those of Margaret Thatcher and Carol Reed. His book Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics was published by W. W. Norton in October Diplomatic Correspondent - Janine di Giovanni is an author and award-winning foreign correspondent. She is a regular contributor to The Times, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, and The Guardian. She recently made a TED talk at the U.S. Institute of Peace on war reporting, which received more than 300,000 viewers. She was a participant in the 2013 World Economic Forum, Davos. One of Europe s most respected and experienced reporters, with vast experience covering war and conflict. Her reporting has been called established, accomplished brilliance and she has been cited as the finest foreign correspondent of our generation. In 2013, di Giovanni was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world of armed violence by the organization Action on Armed Violence (AOAV). Senior Writer - Kurt Alexander Eichenwald was a contributing editor with Vanity Fair and a New York Times author of four books, one of which, The Informant, was made into The Informant!, a motion picture. He was formerly a writer and investigative reporter with The New York Times and later with Condé Nast s business magazine, Portfolio. Eichenwald had been employed by the Times since 1986 and primarily covered Wall Street and corporate topics such as insider trading, accounting scandals, and takeovers, but also wrote about a range of issues including terrorism, the Bill Clinton pardons controversy, Federal health care policy, and sexual predators on the Internet. Latin American Correspondent - Karla Zabludovsky is a reporter from Mexico City and a graduate of Columbia University s Tony Stabile center for investigative journalism. She covers immigrant communities, crime and natural disasters. Writer - William Powell was formerly the Asia Editor and China Bureau Chief of Fortune Magazine and a Senior Writer at TIME Magazine. He is based in Shanghai. Technology Technology Columnist - Kevin Maney is an author and journalist who has covered technology for more than 20 years. His previous book was The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM. Kevin has been a contributor to Fortune, The Atlantic, Fast Company and other magazines. As well as contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, joining the magazine prior to its launch in Business Senior Writer - Leah McGrath Goodman was a writer-at-large for Institutional Investor, a contributor to CNN/Fortune and member of the London Speaker Bureau. Her work has appeared in The Financial Times, Barron s, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes. She also wrote a best-selling book that was nominated for the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Deputy Editor - Bob Roe was a content consultant at Well-Read Media and has previously held positions at Thomson Reuters, Hearst and Conde Nast. Science Senior Editor - Elijah Wolfson is Newsweek s Senior Editor responsible for all things science, health and technology. Elijah is a writer, editor and multimedia journalist with years of experience reporting on science and health. He has written for the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and Vice, among others, and was awarded the Langeloth Health Journalism Fellowship at the John Jay College Center on Media, Crime, and Justice.

6 EDITORIAL OVERVIEW Sample Full-time staff Sports Senior Writer - John Walters is a writer and author, primarily of sports. He worked at Sports Illustrated for 15 years, and also at NBC Sports where he won two Sports Emmys for his on-air writing at the Athens and Beijing Olympics. He has also worked at AOL Fanhouse and The Daily, as well as waited at a popular Manhattan steakhouse. Walters is the author of The Same River Twice: A Season With Geno Auriemma and the Connecticut Huskies. He is the founder of mediumhappy.com, a pop culture blog that he updates daily. He holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied pre-med and rowed crew. US/Culture Senior Writer - Alexander Nazaryan was the Culture Editor at the Wire where he oversaw the site s coverage of news about books, arts, trends, food, museums, publishing, among other topics. Alex was also at the New York Daily News where, in addition to his primary posting as a member of the editorial board, he launched their successful book blog Page Views. Senior Editor - Abigail Jones is a journalist and bestselling author in New York City. She was the Senior Editor and Head of Special Projects at the Forward and the editor of its women s blog, the Sisterhood. Previously, she was one of the first employees to join The Daily, where she launched and ran its web and social media presence for nearly two years. Senior Writer - Paula Froelich is the New York Times best-selling author of the novel, Mercury In Retrograde and creator of the travel website, A Broad Abroad. She is best known in New York for being the deputy editor of the New York Post s gossip column, Page Six, where she worked for ten years until June, She was also a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider from 2002 to 2006 and has appeared as a guest on The View, Real Time With Bill Maher, Today, Good Morning America, The Early Show, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, and The Joy Behar Show. Before The New York Post, Paula was a financial reporter, covering interest rate swaps and over the counter derivatives for Dow Jones Newswires and Institutional Investor. Senior Writer - Victoria Bekiempis was a reporter/producer for DNAinfo.com New York covering the Upper East Side. Prior to joining DNAinfo, Victoria worked at the Village Voice and completed internships at news organizations across the U.S. and abroad, such as the Tampa Bay Times, the Associated Press Lima, Peru, bureau, the Bradenton Herald and the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Managing Editor - Kira Bindrim was formerly a homepage editor for Reuters.com. Before Reuters, she was director of online strategy at Crain s New York Business, where she had also produced special projects online and covered technology and small business news. Writer Pema Levy joins Newsweek from the International Business Times. Pema is Newsweek s Washington D.C. correspondent, and covers politics. Cover Designers Robert Priest and Grace Lee are founding partners of Priest+Grace, a design company in New York. Their clients have included O, The Oprah Magazine, WebMD, Reuters, Bloomberg Markets, and Peter G. Peterson Foundation. They are also co-founders of Howler magazine, a kickstarter-funded magazine about soccer that launched in Oct 2012, which has already been featured in New York Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and The New Yorker.

7 OVERVIEW GENERAL Newsweek Details A global news organization operating across all major platforms Size: 8 1/8 x 10 1/2 Frequency: Weekly. 50 issues per year. Newsstand counts: 75,000 with counts increasing to 100,000 to 150,000 copies within months. Subscriber counts: 25,000 subscriber copies with a goal of 100,000 subs by early 2015 and 250,000 by Page counts: Minimum 64 full page folio size. Perfect bound. Paper stock: 60# stock. Cover Stock: 100# stock.

8 OVERVIEW DELIVERY Delivery and Rate Card Subscribers get their issues every Friday Friday Delivery The weekend is a time for consuming more in-depth information and longer-form stories that demand your attention. The news cycle has become so compressed that it no longer made sense to close on Friday and arrive in people s mailboxes on Monday or Tuesday. So subscribers get their issues every Friday. (subject to change) 2014 Newsweek U.S. Rates Rate Base: 100,000 Gross Rates 1 Page $20,000 Spread (2x page rate) $40,000 Cover 2 Spread $49,000 Opposite TOC $21,000 3rd Cover $21,000 4th Cover $28, Newsweek Global Rates Rate Base: 200,000 Gross Rates 1 Page $40,000 Spread (2x page rate) $80,000 Cover 2 Spread $98,000 Opposite TOC $42,000 3rd Cover $42,000 4th Cover $56,000

9 CALENDAR OVERVIEW 2014 Editorial Calendar March 03/14 03/07/ /26/ /03/2014 Launch Issue 03/21 03/14/ /03/ /10/ /28 03/21/ /10/ /17/2014 April 04/04 03/28/ /17/ /24/ /11 04/04/ /24/ /31/2014 Health & Wellness 04/18 04/11/ /31/ /07/ /25 04/18/ /07/ /14/2014 Special Tech Section May 05/02 05/09 05/16 05/23 05/30 04/25/ /02/ /09/ /16/ /23/ /14/ /21/ /28/ /05/ /12/ /21/ /28/ /05/ /12/ /19/2014 Special Travel Section Women Entrepreneurs to Invest In Energy June 06/06 06/13 06/20 06/27 05/30/ /06/ /13/ /20/ /19/ /26/ /02/ /09/ /26/ /02/ /09/ /16/2014 Special Issue: Green Rankings Special Technology Section Retirement June 07/04 07/11 07/18 07/25 06/27/ /04/ /11/ /18/ /16/ /23/ /30/ /07/ /23/ /30/ /07/ /14/2014 Top Entrepreneurs of America Innovations in Health Care

10 CALENDAR OVERVIEW 2014 Editorial Calendar August 08/01 07/25/ /14/ /21/ /08 08/01/ /21/ /28/ /15 08/08/ /28/ /04/ /22 08/15/ /04/ /11/2014 Cloud Computing 08/29 08/22/ /11/ /18/2014 September 09/09 08/29/ /18/ /25/ /12 09/05/ /25/ /01/ /19 09/26 09/12/ /19/ /01/ /08/ /08/ /15/2014 Special Issue: Best High Schools Special Technology Section October 10/03 09/26/ /15/ /22/ /10 10/03/ /22/ /29/ /17 10/10/ /29/ /06/2014 Science Special Section 10/24 10/17/ /06/ /13/ /31 10/24/ /13/ /20/2014 Markets/Personal Finance November 11/07 10/31/ /20/ /27/2014 Gadget Guide 11/14 11/21 11/28 11/07/ /14/ /21/ /27/ /03/ /10/ /03/ /10/ /17/2014 Small Business Special Section Special Technology Section December 12/05 11/28 / /17/ /24/2014 Wealth Mgmt/ Philanthropy 12/12 12/05/ /24/ /01/ Ideas That Will Change Your Life 12/19 12/12/ /01/ /08/2014 Double Issue

11 OVERVIEW DIGITAL Newsweek.com Newsweek doesn t just report the news. It helps set the news agenda. Newsweeklies have always been good at curating the news long before there was an Internet. And among the newsweeklies, Newsweek has been seen as smarter, more creative, more innovative than its rivals. Add that DNA to today s hyper-metabolic news cycle and you have an unbeatable formula for success. Newsweek is about deep dives on topical subjects. Its about pitching the story forward. Its about putting the news in context. Its about being first with the best take on the news. Newsweek s digital version is a subscription site that is metered at 5 articles per month. Newsweek Audience 4MM Unique Visitors 400,000 Tablet Distribution 2MM Twitter Followers 473K Facebook Likes I feel Newsweek.com has the best thought-provoking and fascinating articles on topics and issues rarely discussed on other news sites. Newsweek.com visitor

12 OVERVIEW DIGITAL Newsweek.com Our site meets the needs of editors and our users. Our long form content has room to breathe, our photo essays ( Big Shots ) give you our beautiful images in full-screen glory, you can scan all the content in each issue of the magazine at-a-glance, and the responsive design allows you to have a great experience on any device. We have revived the classic Newsweek feature Conventional Wisdom Watch and plan to ask readers to crowd source it in the future. We are not done any site or application that claims to be done is predicting its own demise. We re growing, and as we hear more feedback from our readers, we will only get better. Premium audience filled with young executives, thought leaders, and highly affluent consumers who are grad school educated. Male Female < No Kids Has Kids Index $0-50k $50-100k $ k $150k+ No College College Grad School Caucasian African American Asian Hispanic Other Index US average US average Source: Quantcast February Updated Feb 28, 2014