Experienced Communications Journalist Catherine Haslam is Named Site Editor for Light Reading Asia, Scheduled to Launch in April

NEW YORK - Haslam will play a defining role in creating LR Asia, driving
aggressive, thorough, and entertaining reporting of the telecom sector in
Asia/Pacific and its increasing influence on the global communications agenda

Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the leading research-led media and
events company covering the worldwide communications market, announced today
that veteran journalist Catherine Haslam will be Site Editor for Light
Reading Asia, scheduled to launch in April.

Haslam will play a defining role in the development of Light Reading
Asia, which aims to address the needs of communications executives who have a
particular interest in developments in Asia/Pacific, as well as the
individuals and companies directly involved in the rollout of next-generation
fixed and wireless networks and services in the region. The site will deliver
timely, informative, accurate, relevant, and occasionally irreverent, news
and reports focused on the region’s key communications issues.

In addition, analysts from Light Reading’s research arm, Heavy Reading,
will also write for the new site, while the team at Pyramid Research, the
leading market research and analysis company covering developing telecom
markets that was acquired by Light Reading in Sept. 2008, will provide
cutting-edge, market-specific content. Pyramid’s Asia team will write blogs
and provide in-depth reports, analysis, and commentary.

Haslam previously was Content Director for the GSM Association, the
mobile industry group, where among a number of roles she helped drive content
for the Mobile World Congress, the largest international communications
tradeshow in the world.

“Haslam’s years at the GSM Association have given her in-depth insights
into the development of 2G and 3G mobile networks in mature markets such as
Japan and Korea and growth markets such as China, India, and Indonesia,” says
Ray Le Maistre, Light Reading’s International News Editor.

Previous to her stint at the GSM Association, Haslam held a number of
senior editorial roles at British publishing company Nexus Media, where she
was Group Editor with responsibility for seven communications magazines, and
as Editor of Mobile Europe.

Haslam joins Le Maistre and European Editor Michelle Donegan as a member
of Light Reading’s international editorial team, which, along with the rest
of Light Reading’s team of leading journalists, drive the communications
industry’s news cycle with a strong point of view and a healthy hint of
attitude… a winning formula that has made Light Reading by far the largest
communications news and analysis Website in the world.

Haslam can be reached at haslam@lightreading.com or +44(0)7711-760745.

About Light Reading

Founded in 2000, Light Reading (www.lightreading.com) is the leading
online media, research, and focused event company serving the US$3 trillion
worldwide communications market. Lightreading.com is the ultimate source for
technology and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the
media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. Light Reading’s
research arms, Heavy Reading and Pyramid Research, provide the most
comprehensive communications research, market data, and technology analysis
in close to 100 markets around the world. Light Reading produces nearly 20
targeted communications events including TelcoTV, Ethernet Expo New York and
Ethernet Expo London, The Tower Summit @ CTIA, and Optical Expo, as well as
focused one-day events tailored for cable, mobile, and wireline executives.
Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005 and
operates as a unit of TechWeb.

About TechWeb

TechWeb (techweb.com/aboutus), the global leader in business
technology media, is an innovative business focused on serving the needs of
technology decision-makers and marketers worldwide. TechWeb produces the most
respected and consumed media brands in the business technology market. Today,
more than 13.3 million* business technology professionals actively engage in
our communities created around our global face-to-face events, Interop, Web
2.0, Black Hat, and VoiceCon; online resources such as the TechWeb Network,
Light Reading, Intelligent Enterprise, InformationWeek.com, bMighty.com, and
The Financial Technology Network; and the market leading, award-winning
InformationWeek, TechNet Magazine, MSDN Magazine, and Wall Street &
Technology magazines. TechWeb also provides end-to-end services including
next-generation performance marketing, integrated media, research, and
analyst services. TechWeb is a division of United Business Media, a global
provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a
market capitalization of more than US$2.5 billion.

*13.3 million business decision-makers: based on number of monthly
connections

About United Business Media Limited

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information
distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation
of B2B communities and markets. UBM’s businesses inform markets and serve
professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from
journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated
events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in
more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these
communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do
business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more
information, go to www.unitedbusinessmedia.com

Contact:

Amy Averbook
Director of Corporate Marketing
Light Reading
averbook@lightreading.com
+1-212-925-0020 x112

Source: Light Reading

Amy Averbook, Director of Corporate Marketing, Light Reading, +1-212-925-0020 x112, averbook at lightreading.com