OZY MEDIA LAUNCHES NEW EMAIL OFFERING, THE SPECIAL BRIEFING

Mountain View, CA—August 31, 2017— O ZY Media, the daily information source for important stories told nowhere else, announced today the launch of a new email offering, The Special Briefing. An extension of OZY’s signature Presidential Daily Brief, which curates the most important and intriguing stories of the day, The Special Briefing offers a deeper dive into just one critical story driving the news cycle each week.

“In a rapidly changing world where news cycles are moving faster than ever before, reflection is critical. We created The Special Briefing to provide our readers with a delightful opportunity to pause and digest thoughtful perspectives -- not just from “both sides” but from multiple sides; to look at the whole picture,” said Watson. “At OZY, we hope to fuel the curiosity and audacity that gives rise to truly unique and nuanced opinions that break out of the echo chamber and drive us forward.”

The first in The Special Briefing the series focused on the devastation in Houston, TX as a result of Hurricane Harvey.

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About OZY Media

With 25 million monthly unique users and 2 million subscribers, OZY brings readers “the new and the next,” offering 100 percent original content with a focus on the future, via unique OZY News, OZY Magazine, OZY TV and OZY Events products. Called “the new media magnet for the news hungry” by Fortune magazine, OZY’s in-depth and high-quality journalism has attracted a number of high-profile media partners including The New York Times, NPR, PBS NewsHour, TED, The Financial Times, The Huffington Post and many more, as well as guest editors including Bill Gates, President Bill Clinton and Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Founded in 2013 by Emmy Award–winning journalist Carlos Watson and co-founder Samir Rao, the OZY team is based in Mountain View, California, and backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including Laurene Powell Jobs, Ron Conway, David Drummond, Larry Sonsini and Dan Rosensweig and a significant investment from publishing giant Axel Springer.