Results of Extraordinary General Meeting

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Independent News & Media PLC

Ticker: (Bloomberg) INM.ID/INM.LN and (Reuters) INME.I/INME.L

Results of Extraordinary General Meeting

Dublin/London -16 December, 2013: Independent News & Media PLC ("INM" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that all of the Resolutions proposed at the Extraordinary General Meeting held in Dublin today were duly passed without amendment.

Notes

1. Any proxy appointments which gave discretion to the Chairman have been included in the 'for' total.

2. A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes 'for' and 'against' a resolution. In addition Mr Denis O'Brien, who in accordance with the requirements of the Listing Rules, has undertaken not to vote on Resolution 2 and to procure that his associates do not vote, has withheld votes on Resolution 2 in respect of 164,473,651ordinary shares representing 29.9% of the issued share capital.

3. The issued share capital (excluding treasury shares) as at 16 December, 2013 is 550,418,281 Ordinary Shares.

INM has forwarded two copies of the Resolutions passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting to the Irish Stock Exchange and these will be available to the public for viewing at the following address:

Company Announcements Office,

Irish Stock Exchange,

28 Anglesea Street,

Dublin 2,

Ireland.

Tel: + 353 1 6174200

Two copies of the Resolutions have also been submitted to the UK National Storage Mechanism and will be available to the public for viewing online at the following web site address: http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do.

For further information, please contact:

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This announcement has been issued by and is the sole responsibility of INM. Apart from the responsibilities and liabilities, if any, which may be imposed on Davy by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the "FSMA"), the Central Bank or any regulatory regime established thereunder, no representation or warranty, express or implied, is or will be made as to, or in relation to, and no responsibility or liability is or will be accepted by J&E Davy ("Davy") or by any of its affiliates or agents as to, or in relation to, the accuracy or completeness of this announcement or any other written or oral information made available to or publicly available to any interested party or its advisers, and any responsibility or liability therefore whether arising in tort, contract or otherwise is expressly disclaimed.

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