Clean Agency

Honest Dialogue On Environmental Issues Recorded During
Fortune Brainstorm: GREEN

MIAMISBURG, Ohio – May 18, 2009 - NewPage Corp., North America’s leading coated paper company, participated in last month’s second annual Fortune Brainstorm: GREEN, April 20-22, 2009 at the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel, Calif., and recorded interviews with global leaders from international industries, encouraging dialogue on sustainability issues.  Paul Hawken, author, environmentalist and entrepreneur with Biomimicry Ventures Group is the first featured podcast guest from the Brainstorm Green conference, launching today.
    NewPage prompted the conversation on sustainability initiatives during the 3-day conference in 17 back-to-back interviews for its second season of the highly successful podcast series, “OnPaper” (www.onpaperseries.com).  The OnPaper series focuses on relevant issues associated with sustainability, and features experts on corporate responsibility, renewable energies, carbon strategy, waste and forest management.  Season 1 of the OnPaper series has already amassed more than 750,000 listeners. Season 2’s numbers are expected to climb.  At the Fortune: Brainstorm Green conference, NewPage constructed a glass recording booth for the OnPaper series, adjacent to the conference check-in desk, garnering the attention of attendees, which included President Bill Clinton and Van Jones, Obama’s Special Advisor to the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
    The interviews featured: Paul Hawken, Biomimicry Ventures Group; Guy Gleysteen, Time, Inc.; Richard A. Lechner, IBM; Ray Anderson, Interface; Amy Larkin, Greenpeace; W Drew Schramm, Herman Miller; Lorie Wigle, Intel; Kathy Abusow, Sustainable Forestry Initiative; Glen Prickett, Conservation Int’l.; Arlin Wasserman, Sodexo; Christopher Lloyd, Verizon; Ben Packard, Starbucks; Bob Langert, McDonald’s; James R. Barnes, Oakleaf Waste Management.  A special two-guest interview featured NewPage Corporation’s own President/CEO Rick Willett along with Craig Hanson, Director, People & Ecosystems, World Resources Institute (WRI). NewPage has partnered with WRI to fund Project POTICO (Palm Oil, Timber, Carbon Offsets), an important project to preserve endangered virgin rainforests in Indonesia.
    “We are proud to have the OnPaper series as an approach to communicating the complex and ever-evolving sustainability strategies and key initiatives in business today,” states Rick Willett, NewPage President and Chief Executive Officer.  “OnPaper is not limited to the paper industry – it includes various industries in which corporate social responsibility is a core value to both the company and its customers.”
    Audio podcast availability dates will be posted on www.onpaperseries.com where listeners can subscribe and receive notifications of future podcast interviews.

About NewPage Corporation
Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, NewPage Corporation is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with $4.4 billion in net sales for the year ended December 31, 2008. The company’s product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, newsprint and specialty papers. These papers are used for corporate collateral, commercial printing, magazines, catalogs, books, coupons, inserts, newspapers, packaging applications and direct mail advertising.

NewPage owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nova Scotia, Canada. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 4.4 million tons of paper, including approximately 3.2 million tons of coated paper, approximately 1.0 million tons of uncoated paper and approximately 200,000 tons of specialty paper.

For more information, please visit our Web site at www.NewPageCorp.com.