Redirect entire site to single page on new site - with multiple exceptions

Hi all,
I need to redirect all traffic from oldsite.com - including (almost) all subdirectories - to newsite.com, but with a small number of exceptions.
I've added the script below to the root .htaccess file:

Options -Multiviews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/story [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/professions [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/offer [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/offer3 [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/faq [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newsite.com/ [R=301,L]

On the whole this works, but only the /story exception works correctly. All the other listed exceptions redirect to newsite.com.

Can anyone advise what I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks,

Ian

 

Add '$1' at the end of the newsite.com

http://newsite.com/$1

Code (markup):

 

Many thanks for this - but doesn't adding the $1 mean that any subdomains specified in the original request will be carried over, so that oldsite.com/otherpage will try to go to newsite.com/otherpage?
My original post may not have been particularly clear - aside from the exceptions, I want all traffic to go to the home page of newsite.com (effectively newsite.com/index.html), as the structures of the two sites are completely different.