The New ForeignPolicy.com Launches

With Columns by Tom Ricks, Stephen Walt, and Others, Plus `Shadow Government,`
by a Group of Outgoing Senior U.S. Officials

WASHINGTON--(Business Wire)--
The award-winning magazine Foreign Policy today launches a new web site devoted
to global politics, economics and ideas. The new ForeignPolicy.com is a vibrant
daily online magazine for the people who care about the world - and want to know
more about the events, and the people, shaping it. It features new blogs by
well-known authors and thinkers, such as Pulitzer Prize-winning military
reporter Tom Ricks, international bestseller Stephen Walt and 9/11 Commission
director Philip Zelikow, as well as original reporting and analysis that takes
readers inside the running of the world.

Whether it`s about fighting in the Gaza Strip, the global financial crash or the
inauguration of an historic new U.S. president, the new site will offer smart,
timely insights - from around the world, as well as from inside Washington. The
site also offers readers the National Magazine Award-winning content of the
bimonthly Foreign Policy print magazine; the new issue that goes online today
features an exclusive interview with Gen. David Petraeus, predictions from five
prominent economists who accurately foresaw the great financial collapse of
2008, Bill McKibben on global warming, and more.

"Foreign Policy`s great strength has always been its ability to recognize that
the world is not a boring place," said Susan Glasser, Foreign Policy`s executive
editor. "With the new ForeignPolicy.com we`re aiming to create a daily web
magazine that is a must-read for anyone who cares about international affairs.
It will be indispensable, insightful and as diverse as the subjects it covers.
Just as importantly it will remain true to the goal of FP`s founders: a magazine
that is serious but never stuffy."

Among the new attractions on ForeignPolicy.com:

* The Best Defense: Tom Ricks's daily take on national security. Ricks, the
bestselling author of "Fiasco" and Pulitzer-winning journalist, will write a
unique daily blog exploring every aspect of "hard power," from the fallout of
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to cutting-edge thinking about the conflicts of
the future, based on a career's worth of experience covering the military.

* Shadow Government: Notes from the loyal opposition. A high-profile team of
conservatives will critique the new Obama administration's foreign policy based
on their own considerable expertise; the group blog, founded and moderated by FP
senior editor Christian Brose -- Condi Rice's longtime chief speechwriter --
will feature 9/11 commission director Philip Zelikow, ex-senior White House aide
Peter Feaver, top Pentagon official Dov Zakheim, John McCain`s foreign policy
adviser Steve Biegun, and other top aides from the National Security Council,
Treasury Department and State Department soon to exit government.

* Daniel W. Drezner, one of the charter members of the blogosphere, will move
his well-known blog on global politics and economics to ForeignPolicy.com.
Drezner, a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University, has been widely praised for what the New Republic called his "sharp
but informal commentary on politics and foreign policy" since launching the blog
back in 2002.

* David J. Rothkopf, a prominent former Clinton administration official, author
and consultant, will interpret the mysteries of Washington powerbrokers for the
rest of us. Rothkopf, whose recent books have demystified the inner workings of
the National Security Council ("The Running of the World") and the new global
"superclass," was deputy undersecretary of the Commerce Department and former
managing director of Kissinger and Associates.

* Stephen Walt will blog on international affairs, with a realist's take on
global events. The co-author of the bestseller "The Israel Lobby and U.S.
Foreign Policy," Walt is the Belfer professor of international affairs at
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and its former dean.

* A new reported blog, The Cable, will feature original coverage, scoops and
behind-the-scenes enterprise about the making of Washington`s foreign policy in
the new Obama era. The daily column will be written by Laura Rozen, a Washington
journalist specializing in investigative reports on national security and
foreign affairs.

* Madam Secretary will be a daily blog dedicated to obsessive coverage of all
things Hillary Clinton. The blog will include a regular panel of well-known
Clinton watchers taking stock of the former first lady's new star turn as
Secretary of State.

* Marc Lynch, the influential Middle East blogger known as Abu Aardvark, will
move his column to ForeignPolicy.com. Lynch, an Arab specialist and professor at
George Washington University, began writing the blog with the quirky pseudonym -
named for a 1970s comic book figure - in 2002. Abu Aardvark has since gained a
wide following among Middle East watchers.

* We`ll also feature partnerships with the Small Wars Journal and a new column,
The Call, with political forecasting by Ian Bremmer and the political risk
consulting firm Eurasia Group.

* The new ForeignPolicy.com will also offer a daily lineup of additional
magazine articles and regular features such as Think Again, debunking
conventional wisdoms. Passport, the award-winning daily blog by the editors of
FP, will continue to be a flagship of the site, offering a smart and at times
quirky daily take on international news.

"The new ForeignPolicy.com will give political and business leaders - and those
who want to reach them - an indispensable daily report on the international
trends and issues that will impact them," said Amer Yaqub, Foreign Policy`s
publisher.

For more information, visit www.ForeignPolicy.com. The web relaunch will
continue with additional new features throughout 2009.

About Foreign Policy:

Founded in 1970, Foreign Policy is the premier, award-winning magazine of global
politics, economics, and ideas. Since the fall of 2008, FP has been a part of
The Slate Group, owned by The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO). FP is a 2007
and 2003 winner of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. The
magazine`s readers include some of the most influential leaders in business,
government, and other professional arenas throughout the United States and more
than 160 other countries. In addition to our flagship English-language edition
and award-winning Web site, ForeignPolicy.com, FP is also published in Albanian,
Arabic, Bulgarian, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, and Russian
editions.

Foreign Policy
Susan Glasser, 202-939-2345
susan.glasser@foreignpolicy.com
or
Jennifer Lee, 703-469-2671
jennifer.lee@wpni.com

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