Bio

A graduate of Liverpool University, he now lives in New York City. Currently, he is the Nation's UN Correspondent. He also writes for the Australian, Tribune, Middle East International and Salon.com magazine. From1993 to 1998 he was US editor of Balkan WarReport which covered the Balkans and similar conflicts. For the last five years he has written a column"Speculator" for Investor Relations Magazine. He was twice President and twice Vice President of the UN Correspondents Association, for which he inaugurated an annual competition for best coverage of the UN. In the UK, Ian has written for the London Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Guardian, the Observer, The New Statesman, London Review of Books. In the US he has written for the New York Observer, New York Magazine, Foreign Affairs, Arab Studies Qtrly, Lears, Maxim, Village Voice and the New York Times syndicate. His TV experience includes , ABC (Good Morning America), BBC, CBC,CNN, CBS, (Sixty Minutes), CNBC, MSNBC, Australian, New Zealand and Swedish, Broadcasting Corporations, ARD, Ukrainian Television, UNTV and many more. A program he made for Canadian Broadcasting Service, "Too Good For Its Own Good" won a silver medal at the New York Film Festival in 1994. He is also a frequent speaker in the US and around the world. ForeignTV.com is an Internet broadcaster specializing in producing and aggregating streaming media content -- available to online users on-demand--from around the world. At www.foreignTV.com, users can access rich, in-depth video and audio information whenever they choose including global news, fashion, arts, culture, travel and adventure, sports and entertainment. Each day, foreignTV.com delivers content from dozens of countries and cities including exclusive interviews and web-only features from foreignTV.com reporters led by Chief Foreign Correspondent Peter Arnett. The company is also building a series of in-depth location-specific sites, such as parisTV.com and beijingTV.com, along with select special interest sites -- for example its recently launched internet-only radio station devoted to world music. The company's growing audience includes business and leisure travelers, a broad range of business users, as well as a growing community of armchair globetrotters seeking engagement and interaction with the world's people, places, ideas and culture. "Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding foreignTV.com's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Prospectus.