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MSNBC.COM AND NATIONAL JOURNAL GROUP
JOIN FORCES ON POLITICAL AND CAMPAIGN COVERAGE

Expanded MSNBC.com politics coverage, powered by National Journal, to launch September 7

WASHINGTON - MSNBC.com and National Journal Group announced today that they are joining forces to create the premier online destination for political information available to an audience that stretches from Inside the Beltway across the country. MSNBC.com will showcase National Journal Group's in-depth, non-partisan and up to the minute political information and analysis in its newly expanded politics section, providing readers with one stop access to all the political news they need.

"It is exciting to be joining forces with a preeminent publication like the National Journal," said Jennifer Sizemore, editor in chief of MSNBC.com. "The expansive and trustworthy coverage of NBC News, the depth of National Journal's political expertise and MSNBC.com's unmatched ability to deliver online news create an incredibly powerful combination. This partnership will be the cornerstone for groundbreaking political coverage on MSNBC.com."

"We at National Journal are thrilled to be working with MSNBC.com as their exclusive content partner providing this first-class destination for political and election news," said John Fox Sullivan, group publisher and chief executive of National Journal. "Now political junkies throughout the country will have easy access through MSNBC.com to the best of 'Inside the Beltway' insight and reporting."

"This new partnership will provide another important and innovative platform for the award-winning journalism of NBC News," said NBC News President Steve Capus, who said National Journal will also partner with "Hardball" and MSNBC Cable for on-air political coverage. "The insights of National Journal and the coverage and analysis of Brian Williams, Tim Russert, Chris Matthews and our stellar team of correspondents and producers will make the new politics section on MSNBC.com a daily destination for millions of Americans."

The new alliance will kick off on September 7. More details will be available the week of the launch.

National Journal Group is the leading Washington media enterprise whose properties include National Journal, CongressDaily, The Hotline, NationalJournal.com and Technology Daily. Since 1969, National Journal Group has provided "insight for insiders" through nonpartisan publications that cover all the power players in Congress, the executive branch, the lobbying world, and beyond.

The Atlantic Media Company, National Journal Group's parent enterprise, is a Washington, D.C. based publishing company whose flagship properties include The Atlantic, National Journal, and Government Executive. With more than one million readers among the ranks of business, politics, government and academia, the publishing properties of Atlantic Media enjoy a prestigious reputation, unique in 150 years of American journalism.