HarperCollins Publishers and FOX News Channel to Publish Exclusive Enhanced E-Book on the Rebuilding of the World Trade Center

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HarperCollins Publishers and FOX News Channel (FNC) will release a digital-only enhanced e-book, RISE OF FREEDOM: The New World Trade Center, on August 23, 2011, announced Ana Maria Allessi, Vice President and Publisher of HarperMedia and Michael Clemente, Senior Vice President of News for FNC.

“We are proud to present this powerful documentation in a new format of the rebuilding and progress of the World Trade Center site, where our team of journalists were granted rare access for close to a year.”

The multimedia enhanced e-book provides an overview of the rebuilding effort that has taken place at Ground Zero over the last 10 years. It explores all aspects of the new World Trade Center site, including building details, the construction process and timeline, and the individuals and organizations that made the rebuilding effort possible. Readers will be able to visually explore the 16-acre site through more than 85 photos, original animation, and 15 videos of FNC anchor Shepard Smith reporting from Ground Zero. Additionally, Smith contributed a video report in the introduction sharing his experience as a journalist covering 9/11.

When making the announcement, Ana Maria Allessi, Vice President and Publisher of HarperMedia, said, “Designed specifically for the new generation of reading devices, Rise of Freedom combines a rich narrative with engaging videos, photos and animations. The partnership between Fox News and HarperCollins unites our core strengths in journalism and book publishing to create a new kind of book that allows readers to become immersed in a relevant issue of the day.”

Michael Clemente, Senior Vice President of News at FNC, added, “We are proud to present this powerful documentation in a new format of the rebuilding and progress of the World Trade Center site, where our team of journalists were granted rare access for close to a year.”

ABOUT HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS

HarperCollins, one of the largest English-language publishers in the world, is a subsidiary of News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV). Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing groups around the world including the HarperCollins General Books Group, HarperCollins Children’s Books Group, Zondervan, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada, HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand and HarperCollins India. HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children's books, cookbooks, mystery, romance, reference, religious and spiritual books. With nearly 200 years of history HarperCollins has published some of the world's foremost authors and has won numerous awards including the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, the Newbery Medal and the Caldecott. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its authors, meet consumer demand and generate additional business opportunities. You can visit HarperCollins Publishers on the Internet at http://www.harpercollins.com.

ABOUT FOX NEWS

FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. A top five cable network, FNC has been the most watched news channel in the country for nearly ten years and according to Public Policy Polling, is the most trusted television news source in the country. Owned by News Corp., FNC is available in more than 90 million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely notching the top ten programs in the genre.