08/11/2010 12:18 FAX (002/008 Page 1 of 2 emu Sommer A message from Debby Krenek From: —ND-Communication office To: ND-Communication Office Date: 8/11/2010 11:29 AM Subject: A message from Debby Krenek i ie Dear colleagues, Newsday's newsroom is hiring! Ina big step forward on boosting out local coverage, during the next six months we will hire 34 new journalists for our newsroom and digital teams, and edd 2,600 pages of adclitionel news and opinion to our newspaper annually, I'm very excited to announce that we are making *his significant investment in people and pages fo provide more and stronger coverage for Long Islanders. Many initiatives will increase town and local coverage in print and provide our online audience with more updates and faster coverage of breaking news around the clock. They include: * Adding to the number of town reporters Doubling the number of Long Island news pages in Newsday each day + Upping the number of regional zoned editions of Sunday's LI Life to provide more localized town news and information «Hiring community journalists who will hit Long Island's streets in search of local features and personalities that define each community as we launch hundreds of nyper-local pages later this month + Gathering and building even more databases to become the definitive online source of local data for L! communities + Expanding our “community watchdog” role by increasing local investigations and enterprise reporting staff to dig into key topics that matter most to Long Istandars + Cross-training staff to enable them te cover news in both text and video We also plan to expand our business and feature sections by: +» Adding space to our daily business section, with more local, useful information for and about the Long Ieland business community » Introducing 2 dally e-malted business newsletter = Boosting pages in LI Life to include a weekend Explore Li component for planning the week ahead + Creating a weekly in-depth profile story that will highlight the life, lifestyles and trends of Long Islanders The Opinion section will grow as the editorial board under Rita Cioll's leadership adds thrae new positions and increases its Weekly space in the newspaper by nearly 80 percent. This section will offer a full page of readers’ letters every weekday, along with more opinion pieces from across Long Island and beyond, representing a broad spectrum of viewpoints. EES 8/11/201009/11/2010 12:20 FAX Page 2 of 2 In sum, we will add 37 people to our teams as part of aur commitment to be the indispensable source of news and information for Long Island. if you know journalists interested in applying for these positions, please have them send their resume and clips to maryann.skinner@newsday.com. \'m proud that Newsday is making this major investment and | hope yau will be, too. Sincerely, Debby Krenek ee TTI 8 11/2010