LRN Announces Multiyear Agreement With Viacom to Provide Legal, Compliance and Ethics Education to Viacom's Global Workforce

LRN Announces Multiyear Agreement With Viacom to Provide Legal, Compliance and Ethics Education to Viacom's Global Workforce

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- LRN(R), the provider of online legal, compliance and ethics education and corporate governance services, announced today that it has been selected to provide a comprehensive online compliance and ethics training program for Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:VIA.B), a leading global media company.

"Viacom has long had a culture that upholds the highest standards of business ethics and workplace behavior," said Henry Moniz, Chairman, Viacom Compliance Committee, and Vice President, Associate General Counsel. "LRN's formidable educational tools will help further our strong commitment to best practices in honoring both the letter and the spirit of the laws under which we operate around the world."

Viacom joins a community of global leaders, including Dow Chemical, DuPont, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Raytheon and a growing number of the Fortune 500, who have embraced the flagship LRN enterprise-wide education, communication and culture-reinforcing solution. LRN will provide Viacom with a comprehensive curriculum, with key courses localized for language and content.

"With its portfolio of media properties, from the CBS Network to MTV Networks to Paramount, Viacom informs, entertains and enlivens our quality of life every day," said Dov Seidman, Chairman and CEO of LRN. "Despite the diversity of its properties and the global reach of its operations, when it comes to integrity, Viacom is committed to a single, unified culture. We are proud to play a central role in this essential mission."

The LRN Legal Compliance and Ethics Center enables employees to identify ethical dilemmas they can encounter on the job, and helps them learn how to identify, evaluate and resolve legal and compliance risks. All coursework is developed, hosted and updated by LRN, streamlining program implementation and administration. LRN maintains a vibrant community of customers to keep companies abreast of emerging developments and share ongoing cross-industry best practices in ethics, compliance and corporate governance.

About Viacom

Viacom is a leading global media company, with preeminent positions in broadcast and cable television, radio, outdoor advertising, and online. With programming that appeals to audiences in every demographic category across virtually all media, the company is a leader in the creation, promotion, and distribution of entertainment, news, sports, music, and comedy. Viacom's well-known brands include CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, VH1, BET, Paramount Pictures, Infinity Broadcasting, Viacom Outdoor, UPN, TV Land, Comedy Central, CMT: Country Music Television, King World, Spike TV, Showtime, and Simon & Schuster. More information about Viacom and its businesses is available at www.viacom.com.

About LRN

LRN provides governance, ethics, and compliance management solutions that inspire and reinforce ethically aware, responsible conduct and set higher standards in organizations throughout the world. Our Governance and Ethics Management System(TM) (GEMS(TM)) offers global corporations an integrated solution for corporate governance, risk, ethics and compliance management. GEMS(TM) includes our flagship Legal Compliance and Ethics Center(TM) (LCEC(R)), a web-based education solution. LCEC(R) offers more than 200 courses covering over 3,600 topics, and has helped millions of employees around the world become better informed, act more responsibly and work more productively. And our decade long record in Expert Legal Research and Analysis delivers unparalleled legal research at significant cost savings to the most prestigious legal departments in the world.


Source: LRN

CONTACT: Suzanne Dawson of Linden Alschuler & Kaplan, Inc.,
+1-212-329-1420, sdawson@lakpr.com, for LRN

Web site: http://www.viacom.com/


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